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NAME LEE 691 LE FEVRE Lee, Charles Carroll (1839-1S93) Charles Carroll Lee was born in Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, March 24, 1S39, and died suddenly from pleurisy in his home in New York City, May 11, 1893. He was descended from the distinguished family of Lees which settled in V'irginia in 1641. In 1770 one mem- ber of the family settled in Maryland. The Hon. Thomas Sim Lee, Governor of Mary- land in 1779, was Dr. Lee's grandfather. Hh father, the Hon. John Lee, married Harriet Carroll, granddaughter of Charles Carroll, of CarroUton, the last of the signers of the Dec- laration of Independence to die. It may thus be seen that a long line of distinguished ances- tors had undoubtedly left their impress upon the mind and physique of Lee. He graduated from Mt. St. Mary's College, Emmettsburg, Maryland, in 1856, and received his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1859. His LL. D. was conferred by Mt. St. Mary's Col- lege in 1890. He was successively appointed to the position of house physician to Wills, Block- ley and Pennsylvania Hospitals and assistant surgreon in the regular army at the beginning of the Civil War. At its close, after being ap- pointed to full surgeon, he resigned an3 settled in New York City. He was a warm personal friend of Dr. George T. Elliot (q. v.), and through him was at once introduced to the best circle of medical men in the city and ap- pointed surgeon to St. Vincent's Hospital and to the Charity Hospital soon after he came to New York. After being assistant sur- geon in the Woman's Hospital in the State of New York, under E. R. Peaslee, he became surgeon early in 1879, after the latter's death, a position held over ten years, when, on ac- count of laborious private practice, he resigned. At the time of his death he was consulting physician to the Charity Hospital, St. Eliza- beth's Hospital and the Woman's Hospital. In 1887 Lee was elected professor of diseases of women in the New York Post-Graduate School, a position held at the time of his death. He was president of the New York Obstetrical Society for two years, vice-president of the New York Academy of Medicine for three years, and when he died president of the Medi- cal Society of the County of New York. As a clinical teacher he always interested his class with a wonderfully graphic and in- teresting description of the disease, or lesion, present in the patient before him. He was ever willing to use new appliances, instruments, and medicines, or to try new surgical opera- tions when such seemed to be improvements, but never simply because they were new. As a presiding officer he was quick, judicious, and gracious. In this position he showed, par ex- cellence, the gentleman of the old school, adorned with all the culture and refinement of the best modern society. As a writer he gave many practical contribu- tions on important subjects. He wrote the article in the "American System of Gynecol- ogy" on "Diseases of the Vagina." His sub- jects were various and showed a breadth of thought and study. In 1879, in the Medical Record, we find his helpful paper on "Cystitis" ; in 1881, in the same journal, his article on "The Proper Lim- itation of Emmet's Operation." Later, in the New York Medical Record, appeared "Puer- peral Fever" ; w-hile in 1886 he wrote the very scholarly paper in the "International Encyclo- pedia of Surgery" (New York) on "Ovarian and Uterine Tumors." In 1888 he wrote a paper on "Hysterorrhaphy in the Treatment of Retrofle.xious of the Womb," and in the fall of 1891 he read before the New York Obstet- rical Society a paper on "The Ultimate Re- sults of the Removal of the Uterine Appen- dages," which was published in the New York Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics and in the University Medical Magazine. In the "Transactions of the American Gynecological Societ3%" and in those of the Medical Society of the County of New York, of the Obste- trical Society, and of the Academy of Med- icine of New York, may be found many pages of his excellent remarks in the discussion of various papers. Dr. Lee married Helen, daughter of Dr. Isaac Parrish (q. v.), of Philadelphia, in 1863, who, with five children, survived him. One son became a doctor. Horace Tracy Hanks, Incidents of My Life, T. A. Emmet, N. Y., 1911. ■Vi'T-r (our. OhstPt., N. Y.. 1S93, vol. x.xvii, R. Waldo. Portrait. Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., 1893, vol. cxxiii. New York Jour. Gynec. and Obstet., 1893, vol. iii, T, A. Emmet. Portrait. Tr:i-'s Amcr. Gynec. Soc, 1893, vol. xvii, H. T. Hanks. Portrait in the Sur.-gen.*s Lib., Wash., D. C. Le Fevre, Egbert (1858-1914) Egbert Le Fevre, New York clinician and educator, died of scarlet fever and angina March 30, 1914, at the age of fifty-five. He was of Huguenot ancestry on both paternal and maternal sides. His father, James L. Le- Fevre, a clerg>-man in New Jersey, was born in New Paltz, New York, and his ancestor was Simon L., who emigrated from France in 1663 to Ulster County, New York. Egbert's mother was Cornelia Bevier Hasbrouck. He was born in Raritan. New Jersey, Octo-