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 John
Milton Lee, born in Danville,
Indiana, September 7, 1890, was graduated from the Danville
High School in 1910 and entered the University of Indiana
and there completed three years of pre-medical work.
He later became a student at Temple University (1915)
but was compelled to leave school because of a death
in the family. He enlisted in the 349th Field Artillery
in March of 1918 and served overseas as a First Class
Sergeant and Gunner. His battery enjoys the unique distinction
of having been the first battery of Negro Artillerymen
ever to open fire upon an enemy. John Milton Lee fired
the first shot.
He helped organize, and for several years
was president of, the Fairview Gold Club, the first Negro
Golf Club in Pennsylvania. In 1931 he married Mary Walker
Robinson. Vocationally, he was engaged in several enterprises.
For eight years, he conducted a successful catering business
in Philadelphia; he organized and served as Vice President
and Secretary of the Mutual Emergency Union, a mutual aid
company in Philadelphia. He was also a member of the Board
of Managers of the Columbia Community Branch of the YMCA.
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