 1899 - 1973 (74 years) Has more than 100 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.
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| Name |
Harold Bingham Lee |
| Birth |
28 Mar 1899 |
Clifton, Franklin, Idaho, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
3 Nov 1920 |
LOGAN |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWC4-9KY |
| Death |
26 Dec 1973 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Burial |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I89574 |
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| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Father |
Samuel Marion Lee Jr, b. 22 Nov 1875, Panaca, Lincoln, Nevada, United States d. 9 May 1947, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 71 years) |
| Mother |
Louisa Emaline Bingham, b. 1 Jan 1879, Clifton, Franklin, Idaho, United States d. 27 Jul 1959, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 80 years) |
| Marriage |
13 May 1896 |
Logan, Cache, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F29881 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Fern Lucinda Tanner, b. 14 Nov 1895, Granger, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 24 Sep 1962, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 66 years) |
| Marriage |
14 Nov 1923 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Children |
| | 1. Maurine Lee, b. 1 Sep 1924, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 27 Aug 1965 (Age 40 years) |
| | 2. Helen Lee, b. 25 Nov 1925, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 19 Apr 2000 (Age 74 years) |
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| Family ID |
F29883 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
| Family 2 |
Freda Johanna Jensen, b. 2 Jul 1897, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States d. 1 Jul 1981 (Age 83 years) |
| Marriage |
17 Jun 1963 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Family ID |
F29884 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
6 Mar 2025 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 28 Mar 1899 - Clifton, Franklin, Idaho, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 3 Nov 1920 - LOGAN |
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 | Marriage - 14 Nov 1923 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Marriage - 17 Jun 1963 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Death - 26 Dec 1973 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Burial - - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Notes |
- 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
He was eleventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sa i nts (LDS Church) from July 1972 until his death in December 1973.
Lee was born in Clifton, Idaho, to Samuel Lee and Louisa Emeline Bingh a m and was the second of six children. The Lee family lived the rural li f e and Lee and his siblings spent most of their youth doing farm chores . D uring his childhood, his mother saved him from several near-death exp erie nces. When he was eight, he was sent to get a can of lye from the sh elf a nd spilled the deadly product all over himself. His mother opene d a vat o f pickled beets and poured cup after cup of the red vinegar al l over him , which neutralized the lye. When Harold was a teen, he punctu red an arte ry on a broken bottle. His mother cleaned it, but it became b adly infecte d. She burned a black stocking to ashes and rubbed it in th e open wound a nd it soon healed.
Lee was fortunate to receive a good education. He finished eighth grad e a t a grammar school in Clifton and his parents allowed him to continu e hi s education at Oneida Stake Academy in Preston, Idaho. The first fe w year s, Lee focused on music and played the alto, French, and bariton e horns . Later, he played basketball and was a reporter for the school n ewspaper . He graduated in the spring of 1916.
The summer following his graduation Lee worked to receive his teaching c e rtificate from Albion State Normal School at Albion, Idaho. After two s um mers of study in 1916 and 1917, Lee passed the state's fifteen-subjec t te st to receive his second- and third-class certificates. Lee held hi s firs t teaching position in the fall of 1916. He taught a class of 25 s tudents , grades one to eight, in Weston, Idaho. His salary was $60 a mon th. Whe n he was eighteen, he became principal of a school in Oxford, Ida ho. In S eptember 1920, then church president Heber J. Grant called Lee o n a missi on to the western states, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado . He was t wenty-one and served until December 1922.
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