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History of Manistee, Mason & Oceana Counties, Michigan
H. R. Page & Co., Chicago - 1882

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         JOHN MEE was born in London, Canada, in 1839. In his earlier
       years he worked mostly at farming, but becoming ambitious for
       a more active field than was to be found in Canada, he resolved 
       to seek a new country. In 1867 he came to the States, and located 
       in Manistee. In 1870 he went into the hardware business, the firm
       being G. I. RUSSELL & Co., and continued in that business until
       1872, when he went out of trade and engaged in lumbering. In
       1875 he went back to the hardware business, and in 1877 bought
       out his partner, and was alone until 1881 , when he sold out to 
       the firm of PARRY & LEGG. In 1881 he bought out MR. LEGG, and the
       firm became PERRY & MEE. Their store, at the present time, is one
       of the leading mercantile establishements of the city. MR MEE is
       one of the men who has helped to give Manistee the commercial
       importance it has attained. He has made his own way in the
       world, and has succeeded. He is engaged in lumbering with MR.
       A. B. LEONARD; is a director of the First National Bank, and also
       of the Water Works Company, and always takes an active part in
       the public enterprises that tend to build up the city. His family
       consists of a wife and one child.
       
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