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LEFT LEE 443 LEE Brussels, only beinp: amnestied in 1870. After his I'eturn to France he was elected to the Assembly in 1871, and again in 1874. He died in Fontenay, France, Dec. 31, 1874. LEE, ALGERNON, an American journalist, bom in Dubuque, la.j in 1873. He was educated at the Univer- sity of Minnesota. He became identified with the Socialist movement in 1895, and edited Socialist papers from 1898 to 1909. From the latter year he was educational director of the Rand School of Social Science, in New York. He was a dele- gate to many Socialist conventions and conferences. LEE, ANN, founder of the Society of Shakers in America; born in Manchester, England, Feb. 29, 1736. She was poor and uneducated, and in 1758 joined the Shakers, a sect allied in their belief to the Friends. _ They practiced curious dances in which the whole body was shaken and thrown into strange postures. Anna Lee was married in 1762 to a blacksmith named Standerin, or Stanley. She believed herself inspired, and was imprisoned in 1770 for preaching the new doctrine of celibacy. In 1774 she emi- grated to America and founded the So- ciety of Shakers. She was greatly re- vered by her followers, and by them was called "Mother Ann." She died in Watervliet, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1784. LEE, CHARLES, an American mili- tary officer; born in Dernhall, Cheshire, England, in 1731. In 1775 he was made Major-G«neral. He was captured by the British in 1776, and was exchanged in 1778. For disobedience of the orders of Washington at the battle of Mon- mouth in 1778, he was tried by court- martial and sentenced to one year's sus- pension from the ^ army, and afterward was altogether dismissed by Congress. He died at Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 2, 1782. LEE, FITZHUGH, an American mili- tary officer; born in Clermont, Fairfax CO., Va., Nov. 19, 1835. He was gradu- ated at the United States Military Acad- emy in 1856. At the outbreak of the Civil War he resigned his commission and entered the Confederate Army, ris- ing through its g^rades to that of Major- General. He participated in all the bat- tles of the Army of Northern Virginia, and was severely wounded at Winches- ter in 1864. He commanded a cavalry corps of the Army of Northern Virginia in 1865, surrendering to General Meade in March. He was governor of Virginia from 1886 to 1890. Appointed consul- general at Havana in 1893 he served there till 1898, and was at the head of affairs in Cuba during the period imme- diately preceding the outbreak of the war with Spain. President McKinley having intended to send an additional message to Congress on April 6, 1898, the effect of which would have been an immediate outbreak of hostilities, Consul-General Lee cabled that he would not be able to secure the removal of American citizens from Cuba before the night of the 9th. The President thereupon withheld his message, and on the appointed evening the Americans in Cuba who wished to leave were all conveyed from the island. During the ensuing war with Spain he was a Major-General of volunteers, serv- ing in Cuba, and becoming at the close of hostilities military governor of Havana. In 1900 he was made com- mander of the Department of the Mis- souri. He died April 28, 1905. LEE, FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT, a signer of the Declaration of Independ- ence and a brother of Richard Henry Lee; born in Stratford, Va., Oct, 14, 1734. He died in Richmond, Va., April 3, 1797. LEE, GERALD STANLEY, an Amer- ican author, born in Brockton, Mass., in 1862. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1885, and for three years fol- lowing studied at the Yale Divinity School. He was ordained to the Con- gregational ministry in 1888 and was pastor of several churches in various parts of the country. He lectured widely on literature and art subjects. His pub- lished writings include "The Shadow Christ" (1896) ; "The Lost Art of Read- ing" (1902) ; "The Voice of the Ma- chines" (1906); "The Lonely Nation" (1917) ; and "The Ghost in the White House" (1920). LEE, HENRY, an American soldier; born in Leesylvania, Va., Jan. 29, 1756. He was graduated at Princeton College in 1774, and on the outbreak of the Revo- lutionary War joined Washington's army. He speedily won distinction for his dash and daring, being styled "Light- horse Harry Lee." He led the army of 15,000 men that put dovm the "whiskey insurrection" in Pennsylvania in 1794. He first uttered the words, "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," applying them to Washing- ton, whose commemorative oration he de- livered. He died on Cumberland Island, Ga., March 25, 1818. LEE, JENNETTE (BARBOUR PERRY), an American novelist, born in Bristol, Conn., in 1860. She gradu- ated from Smith College in 1886. From 1890 to 1893 she taught English at Vas-