Lee, Luther – Lefever, Jacob
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, M. Lindley
physician, state senator, congressman, was born May 29, 1805, in Minisink, N. Y. During 1840-44 he was postmaster of Fulton, N. Y.; in 1846-47 he was a member of the state assembly; and in 1855 was a member of the state senate. In 1858 he was elected a representative to the thirty-sixth congress.
LEE, MRS. MARY CATHERINE [JEN- KINS], author, was born in Massachusetts. She is a novelist of Springfield, Mass.; and the author of A Quaker Girl of Nantucket; In the Cheering-Up Business; and A Soulless Singer.
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, Richard H
soldier, physician, jurist, was born Aug. 31, 1825, in Tennessee. During the Mexican war he served as a private soldier; and in 1848 settled in Kanawha county, W. Va. During the civil war he served as captain in company A, eighth regiment Virginia infantry; and also in the seventh regiment West Virginia cavalry. For four years he was one of the judges of the county court; was magistrate for seventeen years; and has been president of the board of education of St. Albans for the past thirty years.
Lee, Richard Henry
signer of the declaration of independence, was born Jan. 20, 1732, in Stratford, Va. He was a member of the first congress in 1774. In accordance with instructions from the Virginia convention, he first proposed in congress a declaration of independence, June 7, 1776, and a committee was appointed to prepare it. He was a signer of the adopted declaration of independence, and of the articles of confederation. After the adoption of the articles of confederation he withdrew from congress, but was re-elected in 1784, and chosen president of that body, serving till 1787.
He was a senator in congress from Virginia from 1789 to 1792. He died June 9, 1794, in Chantilly, Va.
Lee, Robert Edward
soldier, was born Jan. 19, 1806, in Stratford, Va. He was the celebrated confederate general of the civil war. He was the son of General Henry Lee, of the revolution, often called Light-Horse Harry, and married the daughter of the adopted son of General Washington.
After arduous struggle as majorgeneral of the confederate forces, which as a Virginian an he felt bound to lead, he surrendered to Grant, April 9, 1865, and thus closed the He died Oct. 13, 1870, in Lexington, war.
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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 Ludwell
lawyer, jurist, statesman, was born about 1730 in Stratford, Va. He was a member of the house of burgesses; of the conventions of July and December, 1775; and of the committee of safety; and in the convention of 1776 was placed on the committee to draft a declaration of rights, and a plan of government. On the organization of the Virginia state government he was appointed one of the five revisers, and one of the five judges of the general court.
He died in 1777.
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 E
banker, legislator, was born Jan. 8, 1852, in Alton, Ill. He served three terms as a member of the Minnesota legislature, and was speaker of the house in 1893. He was superintendent of the state reformatory at St. Cloud; and for four years was on the governor's staff with rank of major. He is a president of the bank of Long Prairie, Minn.
Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh
soldier, congressman, was born May 31, 1837, in Arlington, Va. In 1861 he raised a company of cavalry and joined the army of northern Virginia; served in every grade successively from captain to majorgeneral of cavalry. He represented his senatorial district in the Virginia state senate for one term, declining a renomination. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.
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.
Leedom, John P
farmer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1847, in Adams county, Ohio. He graduated at Smith's Mercantile college in 1868; taught school; engaged in farming.
He was elected clerk of the court of common pleas in 1874, re-elected in He was and a 1877. member of the democratic state committee in 1879; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-seventh congress; and served on several important committees.
Leeds, David
author, was born in 1652 in England. He was a prominent figure among the early settlers of Burlington, N. J., and a violent opponent of the Quakers. He was the author of The Temple of Wisdom; The News of a Trumpet; Hue and Cry Against Error; A Trumpet Sounded; The Rebuker Rebuked; and The Great Mystery of Fox- Craft Discovered. He died Sept. 27, 1720, in Burlington, N. J.
Leedy, John Whitnah
farmer, legislator, governor, was born March 8, 1849, in Richland county, Ohio. During 1893- 97 he was a member of the senate of the Kansas legislature; and governor of that state for two years beginning in January, 1897.
Leeper, Arthur
lawyer, state senator, was born Aug. 21, 1855, in Chandlerville, Ill. He was state's attorney of Cass county from 1876 to 1880; and was elected Illinois state senator in 1888, 1892, and 1896.
Leeser, Isaac
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 12, 1806, in Prussia. He was a Jewish rabbi of Philadelphia who published The Jews and the Mosaic Law; Discourses on the Jewish Religion; Portuguese Forms of Prayer; and a Translation of the Scriptures from the Original Hebrew. He died Feb. 1, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Leet, Isaac
state senator, congressman, was born in 1802 in Pennsylvania. He was for several years in the senate of that state; and was a representative in congress from 1829 to 1831. He died June 10, 1844, in Washington, Pa.
Leete, William
governor of Connecticut, was born about 1603 in England. He was a founder of Guilford, Conn., and one of the pillars of the church there. He was deputy governor in 1661-65, was frequently a commissioner of the colony, reelected governor in 1676, and afterward annually chosen until his death. He died April 16, 1683, in Hartford, Conn.
Lefever, Jacob
banker, congressman, was born April 20, 1830, in New Paltz, N. Y. He was a member of the assembly of the state of New York in 1863-67; and was frequently a delegate to republican state conventions and was a delegate to the national republican convention of 1888. He is president of the Huguenot National bank of New Paltz; and vice-president of the New Paltz Savings bank. He was elected to the fiftythird and fifty-fourth congresses as a republican.