Lee, Albert Lindley – Lee, Joshua
Lee, Albert Lindley
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 16, 1834, in Fulton, N. Y. He removed to Kansas, where he was judge of the state supreme court in 1861. He became major of the seventh Kansas cavalry in that year; and was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers.
Lee, Alfred
bishop, author, was born Sept. 9, 1807, in Cambridge, Mass.
He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of Delaware, and prominent as a low churchman. He was the author of The Harbinger of Christ; Life of St.
Peter; Eventful Nights in Bible History; Life of St. John; and Treatise on Baptism. He died April 12, 1887, in Wilmington, Del.
Lee, Andrew
clergyman, author, was born May 7, 1745, in Lyme, Conn.
Among his publications are An Inquiry Whether it be the Duty of Man to be Willing to Suffer Damnation for the Divine Glory; The Declensions of Christianity an Argument for Its Truth; and Sermons on Various Important Subjects. He died Aug. 25, 1832, in Lisbon, Conn.
Lee, Ann
was born Feb. 22, 1736, in England. She was the founder of the religion of the so-called Shakers. She died Sept. 8, 1784, in Watervliet, N. Y.
Lee, Arthur
congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1740, in Stratford, Va. In 1781 he was elected to the assembly of Virginia, but was immediately chosen a delegate to the continental congress, where he remained until 1785. He was appointed secretary of the treasury, which office he held until 1789. He died Dec. 12, 1792, in Urbana, Va.
Lee, Benjamin
physician, author, was born Sept. 26, 1833, in Norwich, Conn.
He is a physician of Philadelphia, and the author of Treatment for Angular Curvature of the Spine; and Tracts on Massage.
Lee, Benjamin Franklin
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 18, 1841, in Gouldtown, N. J. He was a methodist clergyman of African birth; president of Wilberforce university since 1876, and the author of Wesley the Worker; and Causes of the Success of Methodism.
Lee, Charles
lawyer, state legislator, was born in 1758, in Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia state legislature; and was appointed attorney-general of the United States in 1795, serving until 1801. He died June 24, 1815, in Farquhar county, Va.
Lee, Charles Alfred
physician, author, was born Maren 3, 1810, in Salisbury, Conn. He was a physician of New York city who published Elements of Geology for Popular Use; and Human He died Feb. 4, 1872, in Physiology.
Peekskill, N. Y.
Lee, Charles Arnold
journalist, state legislator, was born Dec. 14, 1845, in Pawtucket, R. I. Since 1878 he has been editor and proprietor of the Rhode Island Gazette and Chronicle. In 1880 and 1881 he was a member of the Rhode Island assembly.
Lee, Charles Stephen
soldier, farmer, merchant, legislator, was born Feb. 3, 1834, in Greensboro, Ga. He has filled numerous public offices of trust; was a member of the Alabama state legislature in 1872-73; and in 1896 was elected a state senator from the twenty-first district. During the war he served as second lieutenant of the first Alabama cavalry, and was afterward transferred to the sixth Alabama cavalry, and made captain of company A. He is a successful farmer and merchant of Brewton, Ala.; and although he was admitted to the bar, never practiced that profession to any extent.
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, Francis Lightfoot
signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born Oct. 24, 1734, in Stratford, Va. In 1765 and 1766 he was elected to the house of burgesses, and was a strong advocate of equal rights. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1775 to 1780; and signed the Declaration of Independence, and also the articles of confederation. He also served in the state legislature. He died April 3, 1797, in Richmond, Va.
Lee, George Washington Cus- Tis
soldier, educator, college president, was born Sept. 16, 1832, in Fortress Monroe, Va. After receiving a liberal education he was given an appointment to the United States military academy of West Point, from which institution he graduated in 1854.
He was then assigned to the corps of engineers, United States army, with the rank of brevet second lieutenant; and in due course of time became first lieutenant. In 1861 he was appointed aide-de-camp to the president of the southern confederacy, with the rank of colonel; in 1863 was made brigadier-general; and in 1864 he was made major-general. In 1865 he was appointed to the chair of civil and military engineering at the Virginia military institute of Lexington, Va. He held that office until 1871, since which time he has filled the duties of president of the Washington and Lee university.
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.
Lee, Henry
soldier, statesman, author, was born Jan. 29, 1756, in Leesylvania, Va. He was appointed a captain of cavalry, and in 1777 joined the main army; and was soon promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1786 he was appointed a delegate in congress from Virginia, in which body he remained until the constitution was adopted. In 1791 he was chosen governor of Virginia.
He was a member of congress at the period of Washington's death; and in 1799 was appointed by congress to deliver a eulogy on the occasion, in which occurred the words: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
He published Memoirs of the War in the Southern Departments of the United States. He died March 25, 1816.
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.
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.