The evening times., 1898-09-06
THE LEE FAMILY.
An Int resting History of Men of
Great Ren"Nn-
(From the Chicago Times- Herald.l

(From the Chicago Times Herald.)
Perhaps the most notable representa-
tive of the name was Richard Henry
Lee who was born in WestmOreland
County, Va, in 1872. He lived TO the age
of sfxty-two years and died al Chanully,
in his native Srate-the place where sixty
eight years later Fighting Phil kearney"
was killed. Lee was member of the
Virginia house of burgesses when Patrick
Henry made the memorable speech.
familiar 10 schoolboys. and a favorite
selection in all books Of rhetoric The
most significant passage was as follows;
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles l. ms
Cromwell, and George IL Treason
shouted the chairman. Treason, Trea-
SOM" was echoed from different parts of
,he house. And George IL" resumed the
speaker. with flashing eye and unfaltering
voice may profit by their example IL
that be treason, make the most of II.
one wonders how much of it was Pa
trick Henry and how much was very
CAPABLE reporter. since they had no ste
nographers in those days. But the IN
fuence of the fiery revolutionist pIalh!y
belped 10 mold and crystalline the quail
ties of Lee. whose labors in the continent
taI congress began in I7I4. and whose
writings and addresses did so much Tor
the colonies He wrote the "MemoTlaI 10
the People of British America, an arSu-
ment of permanent literary value ana one
which bore rich fruit for liberty al the
time. He is believed TO have written the
address TO the King which 50 cIearN
embodied the principles for which me
co1onists were striving, and which oHeftd
+ba crown an honorable-and. as
,royed n profitable-way out or al gov
arr,oental difficulties. He had the last-
,np honor of introducing in the cohIiheH-
+aI congress the resolutions Tor lhdepeHu-
80. was several times elected TO the
I-nited States Congress ana was Ci4'e"
states senator from l1S9 until l's--
His Younger brosher, Frahels
foot Lee outiived him three EeiiS' w '''s
- picbuond in 1891 The latter was
rionor Of tha Declaration OF lndepehu-
go and was. from first TO last. one OF
~ most active of Virginia politicians
Some twenty years later in point OF
- came Henry Lee of collateral
branch of the same house. and also
native of Westmoreland County. LlShI
Horse Harry Lee" they called him. anu
the name clung to him While ne hNe"
and sheds a romantic glow upon MN even
yet Henry Lee was friend ana stahch
s,,nrortar of Gen. Washington. the com
mander of Lees Legion. ana shdrer
;n all the glory of a successful revoiu-
ton He was elected governor OF VIZ
ginia in 1892 and held the office Tor three
Years In which time he gave PROOF OF lhe
national faith that was IN hlnl-dS Gun
tradistinguished from devotion 10 state
rights-by helping TO suppress the whls-
XIV rebellion in Pennsylvania in 1i9t He
ycas a member of Congress from 1880 TO
1901 and lived TO write his Memoirs of
the War in the Southern Department"
Light Horse Harry Lee died at
Cumberland Island. Ga. in ISIS.
There was another Lee, not related to
the Virginia family. who came from Eng
land and brought a vast military eXpe-
rience, Offering himself 10 the continen-
tai Congress as a leader of their cause in
| the field. This was Gen. Charles Lee,
who was jealous because Washington
| and not he was selected as the comman-
der-in-chief. But he accepted a major
generals commission, and was a source
l-of trouble from the start. In lII6 he was
captured four miles from his army, and
| was not exchanged until two years later,
| and about the first thing he did was 10
| disobey Washington's orders at the baS-
| tie of Monmouth for which he was SEN
| fenced to a years suspension from the
| military service, and he was afterward
| dismissed altogether by Congress. He
| died in Philadelphia in 17S2-a brilliant
| but disappointed and soured man, aged
| and decrepit at fifty-one.
| Arthur Lee, another brother of Richard
| Henry Lee was an American agent in
| England in 1770. commissioner 10 France
| in 1776, dip'omat in several European
| courts until 17S0, and a member of Con-
gress from 1882 to 1855. He died in 1872.
In 1774 Ann Lee came to America from
| England, and in 1716, when others of her
| name were trying to establish a nation.
| she was busy founding church-or a
society. X was the American Society of
| Shakers. She died in 1884 Her followers
still refer TO her as Mother Ann"
Alfred Lee was born at Cambridge,