Page:Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography - volume 3.pdf/523

 IIERHINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

608

declaration of rights, and a plan of govommcnt. On the organization of the Virginia state government he was appointed one of Hie five revisers and one of the five judges of the general court. He died in 1777 in Virginia. Lee, Thomas Sim, conprrssnian. governor, was bom in 1744 in Frederick county, Va. In 1779-83 and 1792-94 he was governor of the state of Maryland. In 1783-84 he was a delegate from >Iarylnnd to the continental congress and was a delegate to the Virginia state convention for the ratilicniion of the federal constitution. In 1704 he was elected to the I'nited Slates senate, hut declined, lie died Nov. 9, 1810. in Needwoo<l, Va. Lee, William, physician, ^'enealogist, was born March 12. 184'l. in Boston. In 1858-00 he was a civil assistant to a corps of U. S. topographical engituiTs, and in 1859, while in this service, was one of the first white men to rross the great American desert from Salt Lake ('ity to Genoa, Nev. He was the author of John Leigh of Agawam. .Mass., and his DcM-emlants of the Name of Lee. He die<l March 2. 1893. in Washington. D.C.

Lee, William Henry, merchant, philanwas horn .May 10. 181S. in New Britain. Conn. .In 1845 he foundeil the importing an«l jobbing house of Case and Lee thropist,

in New York ••ity. which subsequently became Lee. Tweedy and company, of which company two of his sons are members, lie was one of the dinrter members of the Union League club. During the civil war he gen-

dered

effii'ient ai<l in sustaining the enlistment of coloreil troops. He assisted generously in the publicfttion of "John Lee and His Descendants;" and in 1876 erected in Farmington cemetery a monument to the memory of .John I^, ancestor of the Lee family. He died April 9. 1805. in Hartford.

Conn. L^e, William Henry Fitzhugh, soldier, congressman, was born May 31. 1837. in .rlington. Va. In 1861 he raised a company of cavalry and joined the army of northern Virginia and sered in every grade suc< «'ssively from captain to major-general of cavHe was in the state senate for one alry. term. In 1887-01 he was a representative to

Lee, Wilson, clergyman, founder, was born 1701 in Sus.sex county, Del. He was one of the most laborious and successful missionaries of his time, his labors in the west roMlributing largely to the evangelization of in

and he shared Kentucky and Tennessw with Jes-ic Lee in the founding of metbo<rism He died Oct. 11. 1804. in in New Fnuland. .rnie Arundel county, Md. Leech, Daniel D, Thompkins, journalist, author, was born April 3, 1810. in Nassau, N.V. He was a conlidential clerk of the postmaster-general ami in 1855 he compiled



him one thousand

for which «'ongress vot»Hl dollars. He was the au-

thor of the

postal

post -route

a

.Nov. 5.

bill

first

Isr.O.

in

lie died

directory.

Washington. D.C.

pliysician. J., soldier,

surgeon,

Leech, Louis banker, leitislator. was born Aug. 3. 1846. in Columbiana county. Ohio. In 1867 he graduated from the state university of Iowa: and subse<iuently graduatinl with the degree of M.D. In 1864-65 he served two years in the union army in the second Iowa cavalry and was in numerous battles and skirmishes, lie is a successful physician and surgeon of West Branch. Iowa and has been vice-pres:



and dinntor of the Citizens' savings city. In 1902-04 he was a member of the republican state conventions. He has serve<l as a member of the twentyninth and thirtieth general assemblies of ident

bank of that

Iowa state

the

loiiislature.

Samuel Van Derlip, clergyman, auwas born March 17. 1837. in Albany. N.V. He is a methodist <'lergyman and temLeech,

thor,

perance reformer. He is the author of Druiikanl: Ingersoll and the Bible; and

The The

Ini'liriatcs.

Leech, William Albert, soldier, was born Pennsylvania. In 1861 he was nmjor in sev«'nteenth regiment Fennsylvnnia intil'" fantry; and in 18«i5 was brevetted brigadiert-eiierMl. He die<l July 20. 1870. Lcedom, John P., farmer, educator, congressman, was lM)rn Dec. 20. 1847, in Adams ••ounty. Ohio. He gnuluateil at Smith's merin

cantile college in 18*58;



the

fiftieth

and

congresses as a died Oct. 15, 1891. in Fairfax fifty-first

democrat. He county. Va. 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. L<?e, William Wallace, machinist, expert, legislator, genealogist, was born July 20. During the 1828. near Barkharasted. Conn. civil war he was a lieutenant in the state He served four years as alderman militia. of Meriden, Conn., and in 1885-86 was a member of the Connecticut state assembly. He is secretary of the Lee association of Cornell. He is much interested in genealogical

researches.

laught school; engaged in

pl ri

1^

^b^'"

cratic state

ft

He was

farmijig.

the elected clerk of court of common pleas in 1874. and re-elet-ted lie was a 1877. in mendter of the demo-

committee 1881-83

K^H

wKB^m ^^^^K^k

live

I^^^^^^^^^^^^H

forty-seventh

from Ohio to con-

gress and served on In 1884-86 several important ciuumittees. the national he was sergeant -at -arms of house of re|iresentatives. Leeds, Daniel, civil «'ngineer. lawyer, jurist, author, was lM)rn in 1652 in England. In ll!H2 he was appointed surveyi >r-general of New Jersey province; and was 'cbosen to

4

Digitized

by

Google