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much

tion

lie

in sei-urlng Mnssacliusi'tls.

in

is

social legislathe jironioter

of the phi.VKriMintI movement aiu is a prominent social worker. He is the nutlior of Constructive iin«l I'reventive IMiiiantiiropy. Lee, Joseph W. J., diplomat, author, was born (Kt. t), 1870. In 1904-05 he was secretary of the Ameriean legation at ranama and in I'JOo was consul-general to Panama has Imm'ii envoy extraordinary and minister plenijKitentiary to Ecuador, (iuatemnla and Honduras. He is the author of Hopes of





was postmaster of Fulton, N.Y.; in 1846-47 lie was a menilH>r of the state assembly; and in 18.'>."> was a member of the state senate. In 18.')9 tJl he was a representative to the tiiirt

congress.

v-sixth

He

Fulton,

died in

N.Y." Lee, Margaret, educator, author, was born Nov. 27. 181."j, in New York city. Her lirst novel took a prize of one thousand dollars olTered by .lames G.

IJennett

of

the

New

Sand, poems.

York Herald. She wrote a memorial for

Lee, Joshua, legislator, congressman, was He served three in I'l-iin Van, N.Y. in the Ni-w York state legislature trom Ontario ami Yates counties; and in ls;i.j-37 he was a representative from New York to the twenty-fourth congress as a

signed and presented in the Cnited States She senate in 1899. is the author of Dr.

the

democrat,

lli-

in

ilied

New

W

where for twenty-three years and occupied a large prairie farm; in iHtiT-liO was engageil in manufacturing in Kenosha, Wis.; and has been alderman of that city. During the civil, war he served in the thirty-ninth regiment Wisconsin infantry in the ordnanc<- department. Kenosha,

is.,

he im|»roved

He has og>' of

the principal countries the author of CcnealFarinington. C<»nn., and and a supplement to the same

traveled

of the world.

John

D^'seemhiiits

some years

in

He

is

l>ee, of

later.

He

retired

from active

business in ISHO. Lee, Leroy Madison, clergyman, author, wa> lM>rn .pril MK ISOS, in IVtcrsburg. 'a. Ih- became in 1874 presiding elder of the Petersburg district of the Virginia c«mference. He was the author of Advice to a

Young Convert; and The (Jreat Supper Not alvinir,tie. He died April 20, 1882. in .Asht

land. Va. Lee, Lucius Orren, educator, clergyman, uiix^ionarv. was b<»rn .Inn. 12, 184.1, in Ke-

Wis. He engag«Hl in educational for several yi*ars; for live years was pastor at Oswego. Mich. Since 1880 he has been a missionary in .sialic Turkey in coniii-rtion with the Mara<-h theologieal seminary. He was present at the Turkish massacre of Arrni'tiians in 1895. Lee, Luther, elergynnm. author, was horn nosha.

work

Nov.

.{(1.

ISIKl.

in

silK.harie. N.Y.

He was

Wesleyan eh'rgynian of Miclii^an. He was the author of Cniversalisni l''.amined aii<l Kefuted: Church Polity; Innnortality of the Soul; Slav«'ry in the Light of the Hible; and Klemeiits of Tln'ology. He died in 1889 in

a

M

it'll

i^xan.

Lee, M. Lindley, physician, slate senator,

congressman, was l)orn May 29, 180.1. in Minisink. N.Y. In 1827 he graduated from college; ami in 18:50 graduated from l iiion the college of physicians and surgeons of western New York. He began the practice of nKilieine at Fulton, N.Y. In 1840-44 he

riage; vorce ;

Since First

I

ct»py-

numerously

Wilmer's Love; iner and Wife;

York.

Lee, Leonard, soldier, manufacturer, traveler, genealogist, was born March 5, 1S20. in Southington, Conn. In 1844 he removed to

perpetual

right,

Ixirn

years

Lizzie;

A

I>ori-

MarDi-

d r a n ce Your Face; .Missing Mar-

Saw

i

Brighton Night; A Certilieate; . Brooklyn llfichelor; The Story of a Story; and One Touch of Nature. Lee, Mrs. Mary Catherine, litterateur, auShe thor, was born in New Bedford. Mass. She is is a novelist of Sjtringlield. Mass. the author «>f A (Quaker (Jirl of Nantucket; In the CluM'ring-Cp Business; A Soulless .•^^inger; Island Plant: and A Little riage

Fielil of (Jlory.

Mary

Lee,

Mil nil

iM.rn

Elizabeth, author, poet, was I8|:j. in Charleston, S.C.

2.1.

She was the author of Historicsil Tales for Youth; and a volume of Poems issued in 18.')1 with memoir bv S. (.Jilman. She died Sept.

2:J.

1849. in Charleston. S.C.

founder, was Ixirn about lie emigrated to 'irginprior to 1(549 and as the founder of the Lees of Virginia. He died after in Virginia. Lee, Richard Bland, congressnmn, was lM)rn in 17t»2 in Virginia. In 1789-9.1 he was a rejooentative from Virginia to the first, sei'ond and third congresses. He died in 1827 in X'irginia. Lee,

l.")!»0

ia.

in

Richard,

Kiigland.



Lee, Richard H., soldier, physician, jurist,

was born. g. ;{1. 182.1, in Tenn»>ssee. During the Mexican war he served as a private •«ol<iier; and in 1848 settled in Kanawha county. ."a. During the civil war he served as captain in company A, eighth regimi-nt irginia infantry; and also in the seventh regiment West Virginia cavalry. For four years he was one of the judges of the coiinty court; was magistrate for seventeen years; and was president of the board of ediication of St. Albans for thirty yea rs. Lee, Richard Henry, signer of the declaration of independence, ccmgressman, United Slates seimtor, was Ixirn .Ian. 20, 1732, in Stratford. Va. In 1774-80 and 1784-87 he was a representative from Virginia to« the

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