Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. Wiliam Henry 
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882.  
Cass County.

LYCURGUS S. LEE, farmer; P. O. Bluff Springs; is a native of 
Maryland, born Sept. 14, 1827, son of Caleb and Matilda (Higgins) 
Lee, also natives of that State, and parents of ten children.  
Caleb Lee, who was a farmer, was born in 1789, and died Dec. 10, 
1847; his wife was born in 1802, and died in 1875.  Lycurgus S. 
received his early education in what was then known as "the 
corner" schoolhouse in Morgan, now Cass County, and began life as 
a farmer, and has since continued in that occupation on the same 
home farm.  He will have been in this precinct 50 years next 
October.  In this county, Sept. 14, 1854, he married Luvina Ream; 
born in Morgan County, Ill., in 1833, daughter of John and 
Catharine Ream; by this union six children have been born: Charles 
W., Dora A., Mary M., Anna M., Solon S. and Ada T.  Mr. Lee has 
been School Director and Road Commissioner; he is a Republican.

Lee Higgins Ream
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MD Morgan-IL