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Lee, Joshua – Leech, Samuel Van Derlip
Lee, Joshua
legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He served three years in the legislature of that state from Ontario and Yates counties; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1835 to 1837.
Lee, Luther
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 30, 1800, in Schoharie, N, Y.
He was a Wesleyan clergyman of Michigan; and the author of Universalism Examined and Refuted; Church Polity; Immortality of the Soul; Slavery in the Light of the Bible; and Elements of Theology. He died in 1889.
Lee, Mary Elizabeth
author, poet, was born March 23, 1813, in Charleston, S. C. She was a writer of Charleston; and the author of Historical Tales for Youth; and a volume of Poems issued in 1851 with memoir by S. Gilman. She died Sept. 23, 1849, in Charleston, S. C.
Lee, Richard Bland
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1789 to 1795. He died in 1827.
Lee, Samuel Phillips
naval officer, author, was born Feb. 13, 1812, in Virginia. He entered the United States navy in 1825; was commissioned lieutenant in 1837; and rear-admiral in 1870. He published the Cruise of the Dolphin in the Reports of the United States Naval Department.
Lee, Silas
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman. He served in the Massachusetts legislature in 1793, 1797, and 1798; was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1799 to 1802; and judge of probate from 1805 to 1814.
He was for some years chief judge of the court of common pleas; and was appointed, by President Adams, United States district attorney for Maine. He died in 1814.
Lee, Stephen D
soldier, college president. He served gallantly during the civil war as a captain of artillery with the army of the Tennessee; and was brevetted brigadier-general. He is now president of the Agricultural college of Mississippi.
Lee, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1833 to 1837. He died Nov. 2, 1855, in Port Elizabeth, N. J.
Lee, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 1, 1769, in Charleston, S. C. He was a representative in the South Carolina state legislature; and state solicitor in 1794. He was judge of the court of common pleas in 1804; comptroller-general until 1816; president of the state bank in 1817; and judge of the United States court from 1823 until his death. He died Oct. 2, 1839, in Charleston, S. C.
Lee, Thomas Sim
governor, was born in 1743. He was governor of Maryland from 1779 to 1783; was a delegate to the continental congress in 1783 and 1784; and was again governor from 1792 to 1794.
He died Nov. 9, 1809, in Frederick county, Va.
Lee, William Little
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 25, 1821, in Hawaiian Island. He was chief justice of the Hawaiian islands. He died June 28, 1857, in Honolulu.
Leech, Samuel Van Derlip
clergyman, author, was born March 17, 1837, in Albany, N. Y. He is a methodist clergyman and temperance reformer; and the author of The Drunkard; Ingersoll and the Bible; and The Inebriates.