Editing Lee County, Iowa (section)

===Name===
There is no consensus about the derivation of the name "Lee." It has been variously proposed that the county was named for Marsh, Delevan & Lee, of [[Albany, New York]], and the 'New York Land Company', who owned extensive interests in the [[Half-Breed Tract#Iowa|Half-Breed Tract]] in the 1830s; [[Robert E. Lee]], who surveyed the [[Des Moines Rapids]]; or [[Albert Miller Lea|Albert Lea]], who helped explore the interior of Iowa.<ref name=lee1879>{{cite book|title=The History of Lee County, Iowa|date=1879|publisher=Western Historical|location=Chicago|pages=414–415|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WVJKAAAAYAAJ}}</ref><ref>[https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/article/id/13535/ Naming of Iowa Counties]. The Annals of Iowa. 36 (1962), 395-400. ISSN 0003-4827</ref>{{rp|398}}