“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


W. H. LEAN,  farmer, Secs. 15, 22 and 23;  P.O. Erfurt; born in 
Waukesha Co., Wis., May 22, 1847.  Mr. Lean has spent his life and 
been educated in his native State; he settled on the farm he now owns of 
160 acres in 1872.  Married Miss Hannah L. Bray, of Palmyra, Aug. 22, 
1872; they have two children - Ethel and Edith.  Mr. Lean is a 
Republican, and is liberal in his religious views; he is a son of G.L.L. 
Lean, a native of Cornwall, England, and one of the pioneers of 
Wisconsin.  He has a pleasant home, six and one-half miles north of 
Palmyra and one-half mile from Erfurt.


Submitted by:  Linda Pingel  (LPingel@worldnet.att.net)