J. W. Jowts, D.D.
LEE, Francis Bazlep, American lawyer and historical writer: b. Philadelphia, 3 Jan. 1869; d. Trenton, N. J., 2 May 1914. He was educated at the State Model School in Trenton, N. J., and was graduated from the Wharton School of Political Economy in the University of Pennsylvania in 1890. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1893 and thereafter prac tised his profession in Trenton. In addition to various historical monographs relating to New Jersey, he is the author and editor-in-chief of 'New Jersey as a Colony and a State) LEE, Francis Lightfoot, American patriot: b. Stratford, Westmoreland County, Va., 14 Oct. 1734; d. Richmond County, Va., 3 April 1797. He was elected to the Virginia house of burgesses for Loudoun County in 1765, and later represented Richmond County in that assembly. He signed the Westmoreland decla ration against the Stamp Act (1765), and on 15 Aug. 1775 became a member of the Con tinental Congress, where he served until the spring of 1779. On 4 July 1776 he was one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independ ence. He also was a member of the committee that prepared the Articles of Confederation, and was prominent in debate, particularly on the questions of the Newfoundland fisheries and the navigation of the Mississippi. After his retirement from Congress he served for a brief term in the Virginia legislature. Consult San derson, (Lives of the Signers' (Vol. IX, 1827).
LEE, Frederick Schiller, American physi ologist: b. Canton, N. Y., 16 June 1859. He studied at Saint Lawrence University, at Johns Hopkins and at Leipzig, and in 1886-87 he was instructor in biology at Saint Lawrence Univer sity. He was instructor and associate professor of physiology and histology at Bryn Mawr Col lege in 1887-91. In 1891 he was appointed demonstrator of physiology at Columbia Uni versity and he was subsequently adjunct pro fessor and Dalton professor there, becoming Jessup lecturer in 1911. He was appointed to the United States Public Health Service in 1917. He edited the American Journal of Physiology in 1898-1914, and since 1900 has edited the Columbia University Quarterly. He has translated and edited a number of medical treatises, has contributed to the leading scien tific journals and is author of Features in Modern Medicine' (1911).
LEE, Gerald Stanley, American author and lecturer : b. Brockton, Mass., 4 Oct. 1862. He was graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1885, and from Yale Divinity School in 1888. He was a Congregational minister for the ensuing nine years at Princeton, Minn., Sharon, Conn., and West Springfield, Mass. He was lecturer in the English department, Smith College, 1897, and has lectured on liter ature and the arts since 1898. He is editor of Mount Tom, an All-Outdoors Magazine, and author of numerous magazine articles and the following books: 'About an Old New England Church' (1893) ; 'The Shadow Christ) (1896) ; 'The Lost Art of Reading) (1902) ; 'The Child and the Book' (1902) ; (The Voice of the Ma chines' (1906) ; 'Inspired Millionaires) (1908) ; — A Moving Picture of Democracy' (1913); 'Crowds, Jr.' (1914) ; — A Con fession of Faith for the American People' (1916); 'The Lonely Nation' (1917) ; 'The Air-Line to Liberty) (1918).
LEE, Guy Carleton, American publicist: b. 1862. He was graduated at Rutherford Col lege, North Carolina, in 1889 and was admitted to the bar of North Carolina in 1894, Pennsyl vania in 1895 and Maryland in 1897. In 1895 he was professor of English history and common law at Dickinson College; in 1896-98 he was scholar, honorary scholar and Fellow, and in 1898-1905 instructor in history at Johns Hop kins University. He lectured on comparative politics at George Washington University 1900 02, was literary editor of the Baltimore Sun 1901-08, and since 1900 has been editor-in-chief of the International Literary Syndicate. He has published
— An Introduction to the Study of the Church in •the Ninth Cen tury) (1898) ;
Speaking) (1899) ; (His torical Jurisprudence) (1900) ; (Source Book of English History' (1900) ; (True History of the War Between the States' (1903) ; 'Robert E. Lee: A Biography' (1905) ; 'The Heart of a Child) (1910) ;