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He is the author of History of MetJiodism in America (1809). His nephew, the Rev. Leroy Madison Lee (1808-1882), a prominent Methodist in Virginia, published Life and Times of Jesse Lee (1848). He died in Hillsboro, Md., Sept. 12, 1816.

LEE, John Clarence, educator, was born in Woodstock, Vt., Oct. 15, 1856; son of John Stebbins and Ehuina (Bennett) Lee. He was graduated from St. Lawrence universit}-, A.B., 1876, A.M., 1879; from Harvard, A.B., 1878, and from the Canton Theological school connected with St. Lawrence university, B.D., in 1880. He was ordained to the Universalist ministry at Perry, N.Y., in 1881, and held pastorates at Perry, 1880-83, and at St. Albans, Vt., 1883- 84. He was marriad, Nov. 25, 1889, to Helena Crumett of Hyde Park, Mass. He was pro- fessor of English literature and rhetoric at Lombard university, Galesburg, 111., 1884-96 ; professor of homiletics and church history in Ryder Divinity school of Lombard university, 1884-96 ; vice-president of the university, 1892- 96, and president of St. Lawrence university, 1896-1900. In June, 1900, he accepted a call to the Church of the Restoration, Philadelphia, Pa., and began his pastorate, Sept. 1, 1900. He received the degree of Ph.D. from St. Lawrence university in 1895, and that of S.T.D. from Tufts college, in 1896.

LEE, John Stebbins, educator, was born at Vernon, Vt., Sept. 23, 1820; son of Eli and Rebekah (Stebbins) Lee ; grandson of Jesse and Eunice (Morgan) Lee, andadescendant of Samuel Lee, born in Waltham, Mass., in 1670, and of Rowland Stebbins who came to America in 1634, and died in Northampton, Mass., Dec. 14, 1671. He was graduated from Amherst college in 1845, was principal of Mount Caesar seminary, Swanzey, N.H., 1845-47 ; was ordained to the Universalist ministry at West Brattleboro, Vt., June 23, 1847, and was principal of Melrose seminary, 1847-49. He was married, Feb. 22, 1848, to Elmina, daughter of Moses and Nancy (Wheeler) Bennett, of West Moreland, N. H. He held pastorates in West Brattleboro, Vt., Lebanon, N. H., andMont- pelier, Vt., 1849-52 ; conducted the Green Moun- tain institute at South Woodstock, Vt., 1852-57 ; was pastor at South Woodstock, Bridgewater, and Woodstock, Vt., 1852-59; president of St. Lawrence university. Canton, N.Y., 1859-68 ; travelled in Europe and the Holy Land, 1868-69 ; and became professor of ecclesiastical history and biblical archaeology at St. Lawrence univer- sity, in April, 1869. He was assistant editor of the Christian Repository, Montpelier, Vt., 1850-52. He received the degree of D.D. from Buchtel college, in 1875. He vrrote Nature and Art in the Old Worhl (1871) ; Sacred Cities (1877), He died in Canton, N.Y., Sept. 1902.

LEE, Richard Bland, representative, was born at Leesylvania, Va., Jan. 20, 1761 ; son of Henry and Lucy (Grymes) Lee. He served in the Vir- ginia Assembly as early as 1784, and for several succeeding years. He was mariied June 19. 1794, to Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen and Mary (Parish) Collins, of Philadelphia, Pa. He was a representative from Virginia in the 1st, 2d and 3d congresses, 1780-95. He delivered the message- addressed to Gen. Lafayette by the committee of Maryland, on the occasion of his visit to Balti- more, Oct. 8, 1824. He died at Leesyl.ania Va., March 12, 1827.

LEE, Richard Henry, signer, was born at Stratford, Westmoreland county, Va., Jan. 20, 1732 ; fifth son of Thomas and Hannah (Lud- well) Lee. After a course of private tuition, he was sent to Wakefield academy, Yorkshire, Eng- land, and returned to Virginia in 1751. In 1753 he raised a company to join Gen- eral Braddock in his expedition against the Indians and the French, hut their aid was declined by the haughty Englishman. In 1757 he was ap- pointed a justice of the peace for West- moreland county and about this time was chosen a member of the house of bur- gesses. He continued a member of that bori'^, when not a representative in congress, until 1792, when he finally retired from active public life. In his first speecli in tlie house of burgesses he proposed " to laj- so heavy a tax upon the im- portation of slaves as effectually to put an end to that iniquitous and disgraceful traflQc witliin the colony." He brought befoi'e the assembly the act of Parliament, claiming their right to tax America, and he served on the special committee appointed to draft an address to the king, a memorial to the house of lords, and a remon- strance to the commons, and was selected to pre- pare the first and last of these papers. In Feb- ruary, 1766, he organized the " Westmoreland Association " of patriots and wrote their resolu- tions. The articles expressed a determination to " exert every faculty to prevent the execution of the " Stamp Act in any instance whatsoever within this colony." On July 25, 1768, he wrote to John Dickinson, of Pennsylvania, suggesting not only that select committees should be ap- pointed to correspond and communicate with their feister colonies in America, respecting the acts