James A. Lee (1867-1939) was born in Ontario, Canada, and died in Seattle, Washington. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1868 and they settled in Neligh, Nebraska. In 1892 he married Martha A. Lee (b. Billings) in Clearwater, Nebraska, and they lived in Neligh where Lee worked as a farmer. They subsequently divorced, and in the early 1900s Lee moved to Seattle. He married Mary E. Lee (b. Bennett) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1910 and became a retail grocer in Seattle. In an 1887 letter to Mary Baker Eddy, Lee explained that he had been preparing to enter the Methodist ministry, but after reading Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures he had determined to study Christian Science. He took a class from Alfred Farlow, one of Eddy's students, and along with his first wife, joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 1, 1900. He was also a member of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Neligh.

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