Glenn Clifford Lee, Sr

Founder of the Tri-City Herald; Pasco, Kennewick & Richland, WA Launched November 13, 1947

"Glenn was born on a little farm near Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the second son of Seth and Anna Lee. He had two younger brothers, Howard and Stanley, and an older brother, Leonard, and a sister, Myrtle. The family moved to Eau Claire when Glenn was young because his father was afraid the children wouldn't receive a proper education in a country school. It was a matter of great family pride years later when Glenn entered the University of North Dakota. He was the first member of the family to go to college. He graduated from Eau Claire High School in 1928 and then worked six months in a foundry and, for a year, at the Northern States Power Company, to earn his college tuition. During his first year in college he kept expenses down by living with an aunt in Grand Forks. Tragedy struck his family that first year. A few weeks after registration he received word his brother, Stanley, had been in a hunting accident and was in critical condition. His friend, Vern Button, who had driven him to Grand Forks for the opening of school, drove him home where his family maintained a bedside vigil until Stanley died. In May, 1930, Glenn met Elaine Greenland on a blind date. He courted her until June, 1933 when, a few days before his graduation, they were married." (Excerpt from "Tiger By The Tail" Twenty-five years with the stormy Try-City Herald)

In 1947, Glenn C. Lee and Robert Philip bought the Pasco Herald, founded in 1918, moved it to Kennewick and converted it into the area's first daily paper, coining the name 'Tri-Cities' as part of the paper's name. Lee and Philip sold the paper to McClatchy in 1979. Glenn was publisher from 1946 until 1980 when he retired.

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