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congregation organized in the Island of Haiti, where he spent several weeks ; and in January, 1875, at the request of the Mexican commission of the Protestant Episcopal church of which he was afterward president, he visited the city of Mexico, and took part in the establishment of the infant "Church of Jesus." In 1878 he attended the Lambeth Conference of the Church of Eng- land. He received the degree of D.D. from Hobart and Trinity in 1841, and from Harvard in 1860, and that of LL.D. from Delaware college in 1877. He was a member of the American Company of the Revisers of the New Testament in 1881. He is the author of : Life of the Apostle Peter (1852); Vindication of the Court of Bishops at Camden, N.J. (1854); Life of the Apostle John (1854); Treatise on Baptism (1854); Life of Susan Allibone (1854) ; Harbinger of Christ (1857) ; Eventful Nights in Bible History (1886). He died in Wilmington, Del., April 12, 1887.

LEE, Alfred Emory, consul-general, was born in Barnsville, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1838 ; son of Isaac and Esther (Zinn) Lee. He was graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan University, A.B., 1859, A.M., 1862, and from the Ohio State and Union Law school, LL.B., 1861. He was captain and assist- ant adjutant-general in the 82d Ohio volunteer infantry, 1861-64, being severely wounded at the battle of Gettysburg ; was a representative in the Ohio legislature, 1868-69, securing the passage of the bill establishing the Ohio geological survey ; was collector of U.S. internal revenue, 1870-75 ; private secretary of Governor Hayes, 1875-77 ; consul-general at Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1877- 81, where he was the first to propose sample depots of American products abroad ; and was editor of the Ohio State Journal, 1882-83, be- coming financial manager of that paper in 1894. He was made secretary of the Gettysburg me- morial commission of Ohio. He is the author of : The Battle of Gettysburg (1888) ; European Days and Ways (1890) ; History of the City of Colum- bus (1893) ; Silver and Gold : A Historical Mon- ograph (1893).

LEE, Andrew Ericson, governor of South Dakota, was born near Bergen, Norway, March 18, 1847 ; son of Erie and Augusta (Anderson) Lee. He emigrated from Norway with his parents in 1851, and settled in Dane county. Wis. He was educated in the public schools of Cam- bridge and Whitewater, Wis. ; was clerk in a store at McGregor, Iowa, 1863-67, and at Madison, Wis., 1867-69, and in 1869 removed to Vermillion, Dak. He was married, Dec. 21, 1872, to Annie M., daughter of Henry N. Chappell, of Rhode Island. He was elected mayor of Vermillion by the Populist party in 1892 and was governor of South Dakota, 1897-1901. In November, 1900, lie was defeated for representative in congress.

LEE, Ann, founder of a sect, was born in Toad Lane, Manchester, England, Feb. 29, 1736 ; daughter of Jolm Lee, a blacksmith. She was employed in a cotton factory and as a cook in the Manchester infirmary, and while a mere girl married Abraham Stanley, a blacksmith. In 1758 she left her husband and joined the Camisards or Shaking Quakers, founded in 1747. In 1770, being arrested and imprisoned with others of the sect, she claimed that Jesus Christ had appeared to her, revealing divine manifestation of truth, and she proclaimed herself the second appearing of Christ or " Ann the Word." The society ac- knowledged her as the first visible leader of the Church of God upon the earth and called her " Mother Ann Lee." She claimed the gift of languages, the gift of healing, ability to discern secrets of the heart, to be actuated solely by the power of God, and to have attained a state of sin- less perfection. She was repeatedly cast into prison and confined in a madhouse, and was never safe from the attacks of the mob. In May, 1774, she left Liverpool with a company of nearly thirty believers and arrived in New York in August. Her marriage to Abraham Stanley was dissolved and she settled in Albany and later at Watervliet, N.Y., where she established " The Church of Christ's Second Api^earance." In 1780 after a revival at Lebanon, N.Y., where a strong settlement was founded, they were joined at Watervliet by a large number of converts. The commissioners of Albany thereupon charged the members with being unfriendly to the patriot cause as they were unwilling to bear arms. Several elders were imprisoned and " Mother Ann " was conveyed down the river with the in- tention of banishing her to England, but she was lodged in the jail at Poughkeepsie from which she was released in December, 1780, by Governor George Clinton. In May, 1781, with some elders she went on a missionary journey to the New England states, and returned to Watervliet in 1783, having made many converts. Charges made against her moral character were never substantiated. She claimed that she would not be subject to death. She died, however, in Watervliet, N.Y., Sept. 8, 1784.

LEE, Arthur, diplomatist, was born at " Strat- ford," Westmoreland county, Va., Dec. 21, 1740 ; the sixth and youngest son of Gov. Thomas and Hannah (Ludwell) Lee ; grandson of Col. Rich- ard and Laetitia (Corbin) Lee and of Col. Philip Ludwell of Green Spring, Va. ; and great grand- son of Richard and Ann Lee and of Philip Lud- well, governor of North Carolina, 1689-91. Richard Lee of Shropshire, England, was in the privy council of Charles I., was secretar}' of Sir William Berkeley, with whom he immigrnted to Virginia in 1641 and became the founder of tlie