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Lee, Chauncey – Lee, John

Lee, Chauncey

clergyman, author, was born July 10, 1718, in Coventry, Conn.

He was skilled in music, composed verses, and was a classical scholar. His publications include an arithmetic; a Poetical Version of the Book of Job; Sermons for Revivals; and Letters from Aristarchus to Philemon. He died Nov. 5, 1842, in Hartwick, N. Y.

Lee, Day Kellogg

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 10, 1816, in Sempronius, N. Y. He was a universalist clergyman of New York city, and the author of Summerfield, or Life on a Farm; Master Builders, or Life at a Trade; and Merrimack, or Life at a Loom. He died June 2, 1869, in New York city:

Lee, Eleanor P

poet, was born in 1817, near Natchez, miss. She became a noted poet of the south. She died in 1849.

LEE, MRS. ELIZA (BUCKMINSTER), author, was born in 1794, in Portsmouth, N. H. She was the author of Life of Richter; Sketches of a New England Village; Naomi; Florence, the Parish Orphan; and Parthenia, or the Last Days of Paganism. She died June 22, 1864, in Brookline, Mass.

Lee, Fitzhugh

soldier, governor, was born Nov. 19, 1835, in Clermont, Va.

At the commencement of the civil war he joined the confederate army; and was at once appointed adjutant-general of a brigade; was soon promoted a majorgeneral. In 1885 he was elected governor of the state of Virginia. In 1896-98 he was United States consul-general at Havana.

Lee, Henry

pioneer, lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born in 1758, in Virginia.

He was a member of the Virginia legislature from the district of Kentucky; and also of the convention that adopted the constitution of the United States. He was appointed judge of the quarter sessions and associate judge of the circuit court for Mason county, Ky. He died in 1846, in Mason county, Ky.

Lee, Henry

author, was born in 1786, in Westmoreland county, Va. He was a Virginia writer who published The Campaign of 1781 in the Carolinas; and Life of Napoleon. He died Jan. 30, 1837, in Paris, France.

Lee, Henry B

congressman, was born Sept. 2, 1817, in Boston, Mass. He was elected a representative from New York to the fifteenth congress, but died before taking his seat.

Lee, Henry Washington

protestant episcopal bishop, was born July 29, 1815, in Hamden, Conn. He was elected first bishop of Iowa in 1854. He died Sept. 26, 1874, in Davenport, Iowa.

Lee, James

merchant, was born in 1795, in Scotland. He was for a long time connected with the New York Society library, and Brown's statue of Washington on Union square was erected mainly through his instrumentality. He died June 16, 1874, in New York city.

Lee, James G. C

soldier, was born Aug. 12, 1836, in Hamilton, Canada. He served in the army all through the war of the rebellion, including the battle of Gettysburg; and is now lieutenant-colonel and deputy quartermaster-general of the United States army.

Lee, Jesse

missionary, author, was born March 12, 1758, in Prince George county, Va. He was a methodist missionary, called the Apostle of Methodism, who published a History of Methodism, which is a valuable record of the early years of that faith. He died Sept. 12, 1816, in Baltimore, Md.

Lee, John

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1823 to 1825.