San Joaquin County Biographies
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HARRY T. FEE
A far-seeing business man of winning personality who has repeatedly demonstrated that he has marked ability along more than one line, is Harry T. Fee, who conducts an insurance business in the Commercial & Savings Bank Building in Stockton. Mr. Fee is also a poet of no mean ability, and the people of Stockton and vicinity need no introduction to him, for his poems have been published from week to week in the Stockton Record. In reading his poems one feels that Mr. Fee has caught the very spirit of the hills, the woods, the streams, the forests and embodied for others some of his joy in them. A native son of California, he was born in Stockton on March 25, 1871, a son of Patrick and Mary (Daly) Fee. His father was a native of Ireland, and his mother was born on the Island of St. Helena in the room where Napoleon died. His father was brought to America by his parents when only one year old. He was married in Hamilton, Ontario and later he migrated to California, across the plains in an ox-team train, in the early 50's; he opened one of the first livery stables in Stockton and conducted it for many years; he was a prominent figure in the politics of the state and county, serving as the first harbor master in Stockton; he was also a member of the city council for two terms; a member of the Volunteer Fire Department and later an Exempt Fireman. At one time he was president of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. There were two children in the family, Harry T. and Mrs. Frank Weaver, of Stockton. Both parents have passed away.
Harry T. was educated in the Stockton public schools; then entered the Santa Clara University and was graduated from that institution in 1891, degree B.S.; he then became deputy county auditor and recorder under Otto Von Detten, where he remained for eight years; and was chief deputy county assessor under Cyrus Moering, where he remained for four years. In 1910 he engaged in the insurance business along general lines, but specializes in accident and health insurance.
Mr. Fee's marriage occurred in Stockton and united him with Miss Etta Ortman, born on her father's ranch near Stockton, a descendant of a prominent pioneer family. Fraternally, Mr. Fee is a member of Stockton Lodge 218, B.P.O.E., and Stockton Parlor, No. 7, N.S.G.W., and the Lions. Mr. Fee has recently published his first book of poems entitled "The Land of Out O' Doors," full of the freshness and beauty of the open. His poems have also appeared in the Sunset Magazine, the Pacific Monthly and other coast publications.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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