Lee, Gideon
merchant, congressman, was born April 27, 1778, in Amherst, Mass. He was at one time mayor of New York. He was a presidential elector; and was a member of congress during the years 1836 and 1837. He died Aug. 21, 1841, in Geneva, N. Y.
LEE, MRS. HANNAH FARNHAM (SAWYER), author, was born in 1780, in Newburyport, Mass. She was a prominent writer of Boston; and the author of Grace Seymour; Luther and His Times; Sculpture and Sculptors; Three Experiments in Living, which was extraordinarily popular both in America and England; Familiar Sketches of the Old Painters; The Huguenots in France and America; and Memoir of Pierre Toussaint. She died Dec. 27, 1865, in Boston, Mass.