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”M The Family and The Home Nestled among the stately . . . pines on Ridge R . , . frame house which was the home of the Lee (5:31“: fgfsliegzgfgatggf James Lee, Of British SOldier lineage, built a log cabin on this site when he, his wife, Hannah, and his family amVed with the United Empire Loyalists from Maryland in ' . flowering plants with him andlzeg‘irafilzftt’gollght some furnishings and John eldest son of James lee and Mar ' - .' VLeew td 'thth Crown Deed op their wedding day in 1801_ It W3: Jgfizecvfio bidilt th: back part of t e frame house in the Same year This part forms the nucleus of the apartment at the back of the preSent house. John Lee serv- ed with the Fifth Lincoln Re _ t - th had eleven Children. He dietglllrflieTS'TnS. e War of 1812. John and Mary Abram, youngest son of John Lee, planned th of the mountain on “Eggemont Farm” in 186%pérelzem: $3313: ‘52: built to the “Old houseY in 1873. The present white board and batten house i5 0‘ Gothic architecture, It has green shutters two bay windows and hand carved maple Verge boards running along the gables These were made by a fourteen-year-old carpenter‘s apprentice namedfMoore Hi5 orginial pattern resembles a P3139r chain Of maple leaves and the job took him a whole summer to complete. Abram had married Jemima Pew in 1855, Erland was one of their three children. Erland (now fourth generation) inherited the family farm. He was born May 3, 1864 and died June 29, 1926. Erland married Janet Robertson Chisholm (born Jan. 4, 1862, died 1940). They had five children . Mar~ iorie, Hilda, Gordon, Frank and Alice. Erland became a school teacher. In 1885 he received a Certificate in Agriculture given by the Agriculture and Arts Association of Ontario. He was a charter member of the Farmers’ Institute and secretary for nineteen years, Saltfleet Agricultural Society secretary-treasurer for a number of Lyears, and Saltfleet Township clerk for nearly twenty years, publicspirited, broadminded farmer and follow- ’ t, . . . Erland was a prominen farming With purebred Jersey cattle, fancy dairy ed his ancestors in mixed . butter, maple syrup and frult- Mrs Janet Lee was a teacher also. She was chosen by the city 0f Hamilton to take a special course in Toronto, to return to Hamilton to help set up a kindergarten system for the City- She retired to marry Erland in 1889. , In the autumn of 1896, Erland Lee attended a meeting of the Farmers Experimental Union, held at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, where he heard a stirring address given by Mrs. Adelaide Hoodless of Hamilton. Inspired by her enthusiasm and impressed by her ideas, Erland felt there was a need for a women 5 organization. On his invitation Mrs. HoodleSS was the Speaker at Ladies’ Night of the Salt'fleet Farmers’ Institute. The fOIIOWing week the public - spirited Erland Lee and his Wife, Janet, travelled the roads of Saltfleet Township en~ couraging all the women to attend a “192th in Squire’s Hall, Stoney Creek, on February 19, 1897‘ At that meeting the first Women’s Institute in the world was organized. Assisted by Senator ED. Smith and Major F.M. Carpenter, Erland Lee helped the women draft the original bylaws and constitution. These were hand penned by Janet Lee sitting at the walnut dining-room table which remains in the Lee Home and is a focal point for all visitors. Mrs. Lee became one of the first directors of the Stoney Creek Women’s Institute, and it was she who suggested that the annual fee be 25 cents per member in order that all women could join MI‘S. ED Smith was the first President. Frank (fifth generation) was the younger son of Erland and suffered from a bad heart, the aftermath of poliO. However he was accepted and served overseas in the Army Service Corps, as a Red Cross Driver in England and later in France. When he returned from the war, Frank remained on the farm. In 1932 he married Katharine Isobel Matheson. They had four daughters, Frank died in 1966 and Katie in 1971,