Page:The Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 06.djvu/407

 LEE

LEE

quently enlarged and published in Paris and Lon- don as The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte down tu the Peace of Tolentino. He revised and enlarged his father's War in the Southern United States <1827). He died in Paris, France, Jan. 30, 1837.

LEE, Henry, banker, was born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 2, 1817; son of Henry (q. v.) and Mary (Jackson) Lee. He was graduated from Harvard in 183G, and engaged in business with his father. About 1840 he became a member of the firm of BuUard & Lee, East India merchants, Boston and Calcutta. The firm continued until 1853, when, with George Higginson and John C. Lee, he established the banking house of Lee, Higginson & Co., from which lie retired in De- cember, 1897. He was manager of the Union Safe Deposit vaults in Boston, 1868-98 ; was aide- de-camp with the rank of colonel on the staff of Governor Andrew, 1881-65 ; was a representative in the state legislature, 1876-77 ; an overseer of Harvard, 1867-79, and 1880-98 ; a member of the Massachusetts Historical society, and a founder, and for several years president, of the Union club of Boston. He was also a stockholder of the Boston Athenaeum, a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a member of the New England Historic Genealogical society. He was married, Oct. 20, 1845, to Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Perkins) Cabot. He was a fre- quent contributor to the press, and is the author of: The Militia of the United States: Wliat it Has Been and Wliat it Should Be. He died in Brookline, Mass., Nov. 24, 1898.

LEE, Henry Washington, first bishop of Iowa and 61st in succession in the American epis- copate, was born in Hamden. Conn., July 29, 1815. He was a student at the Episcopal academy,

Cheshire, Conn., and at Trinity college, but was not gradu- ated. He then pur- sued a course in theology, and was ad- mitted to the diacon- ate in Grace church, New Bedford, Mass., ]\Iay 27, 1838, and or- dained a priest in St. Anne's church, Low- ell, Mass, Oct. 9, 18- 39. He was assistant at Grace church. New Bedford, 1838-39; rec- tor of Christ church, Springfield, Mass., 1839-42 ; of St. Luke's church, Rochester, N.Y.^ 1843-54, and was consecrat- ed the first bishop of Iowa, Oct. 18, 1854, in Rochester, by Bishops Hopkins, McCoskry, De Lancey, Eastburn, Burgess and White-

house. He erected the cathedral and bish- op's house at Davenport ; founded Griswold col- lege, opened in 1859, and raised an endowment fund of $50,000 for the diocese. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Trinity college in 1841, from Hobart in 1850; that of S.T.D. from the University of Rochester in 1851, and that of LL.D. from Cambridge, England, in 1857, during his attendance at the first Lambeth conference. He was a corresponding member of the New England Historic Genealogical society, 1865-74. He is the author of A Manual of Trinity Prayers and several published sermons and addresses. He died in Davenport, Iowa, Sept. 26, 1874.

LEE, Jesse, fjioneer Methodist, was born in Prince George county, Va., March 12, 1758 ; son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Lee. His father was one of the pioneer Methodists, and at the meet- ings held at his house Jesse was accustomed to speak and exhoi't while a mere boy. In 1777 he removed to North Carolina, where he engaged in farming and was appointed a class-leader in the Roanoke circuit. He preached his first regular sermon Nov. 17, 1779, and in 1780 he was drafted in the state militia. His religious con- victions would not allow him to carry a gun and he was placed under arrest but the next day was detailed as driver of a baggage- wagon. He subsequently served as sergeant in charge of prisoners and he received his honorable discharge, Oct. 29, 1780. He was a circuit preacher, 1780-83 ; attended the Virginia conference of 1782 and on May 6, 1783, was admitted to the conference on trial. He served in the Caswell and Salisbury circuits; journej'ed to Charleston, S. C, with Bishop Asbury in 1785 ; travelled Kent county, Md., circuit, 1786, the Baltimore circuit. 1787, and the Flanders circuit. New Jersey and New York, 1788. He helped to introduce Methodism in New England in 1789, and reached Boston in 1790, where he found no meeting-house open to him and preached under the "Elm Tree" on the Common. He attended the New York con- ference in 1790, being ordained deacon privately October 4, and elder publicly, Oct. 5, 1790. He laid the corner stone of the fii-st Methodist church in Boston, Aug. 8, 1704 ; visited the Southern States as a substitute for Bishop Asbury, in 1798, and attended conferences and visited circuits both North and South. In 1800 he obtained a tie vote with Richard Whatcoat for bishop, and on the next vote was defeated by Whatcoat by two votes. He was presiding elder of the Norfolk, Va., district, 1801-03; of the Williamsburg, Va., circuit, 1804-07, and of the Cumberland, Md.. cir- cuit, 1807-16. He was chaplain of the U.S. house of representatives in the 10th and 12th con- gresses, 1807-09 and 1811-13, and of the U. "^J. senate in the 13th and 14th congresses, 1813 16