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278 Messrs. Alexander D. Delaney and Samuel T. Mitchell, receiving the degree of B. S. She distinguished herself on several occasions by displaying a more than ordinary mind in essays and poems during her course of studies at the university, and was appointed and wrote a class ode, the first in the history of Wilberforce graduating classes. After graduation she taught in the public schools of Galveston, Texas, having previously taught two years in the city of Mobile, Alabama.

Miss Ashe was a successful teacher in both secular and Sunday-schools. On the 30th of December, 1873, she was married to Benjamin F. Lee, Professor of Pastoral Theology, Wilberforce University, afterward president of that institution, now Bishop of the A. M. E. Church. The severities of the life of the wife of a Methodist preacher, as well as that of a professor in a college, and the life of six children, have been great tests of the strong character of Mrs. Lee, but she has proven equal to the rigorous demands, and is rewarded by the pleasure of observing the steady development of an interesting family and being a college graduate wife of an African Methodist Bishop.

She has contributed several articles to the columns of the Christian Recorder and the A. M. E. Quarterly Review, and at present edits the "King's Daughters' Column" in Ringwood's Journal, a fashion paper, published by Mrs. Julia Ringwood Coston, Cleveland, Ohio.

Among the writings of Mrs. Lee may be mentioned "America," a poem that has been copied extensively.