The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1905-05-05
GENERAL LEE
sUGGUNBS To
AP0PLESY
VIRGINIA SOLDIER
AND STATESMAN DIES In
PROVIDENCE HOSPITAL
AFTER DAYS ILLNESS.

END COMES PEAOEfbLll4
AS HIS BED is sURR0DND=|
ED BY SEVERAL PHYSI-
CLANS AND SURGEONS.
Wife and Daughters Win Arrive mi
Washington Tonight and the
Funeral Arrangements VIII Be
Made After Their Arrival.
Washington, D. c., April 90
General Fitzhugh Lee, o. $. A, re-
tired, who was stricken with apcp+
lexy while enronte from Boston To-
New York yesterday r'c-r;rf, I'D
who was brought to Nssa:.i:::soa
died at II 30 o'clock last evening IN
Providence hospital, surrounded BY
several physicians and army sur
geons.
General Lee was born at Cler-
mont, Fairfax county, Va, Noyems
Der 10, 1885, and was son Of Cons
lnodore Sydney Smith Lee, Of the
United States Navy. BE was a
nephew Of the late General Robert
y. Lee, commander of the Confed=
crate army in the Civil war. He
at the United military
academy in: 4 $50, was commissioned
second lieutenant Of the Second cav
airy and was severely wounded in a
fight with Indians. He was in
structor of cavalry at West Point
'1S60-61, resigned his commission in
1851, and was then adiutant general
of Ewell,s brigade Of Confederate
army until Septembr, 1861, then he
became lieutenant colonel and colon
elof the First Virginia cavalry, par
ticipating in Aall the battles of the
Army of Northern Virginia up to
1862, was made brigadier-general
july IS, 1852, and major-general
September :, i 1868, had three horses
shot under him and was himself se-
yerely wounded at Winchester, Va,
September 10, 1864, became COM
mander Of the whole cavalry corps
of the Army Of Northern Virginia
IN March, 1865, and remained sucN
until he surrendered to General
Meade at Farmville, was governor
of Virginia from 1886 to 1890, wa.
Democratic United States consul to
Hayana from 1898 until the. declare
ton of war with Spain, was appoint
ed in May, 1898, maior-general Of
United States volunteers and placed
in command of the Eleventh. army
corps, after the war became military
governor Of Havana, and was later
in command of the Department of
Missouri of the United States army,
General Lee had been one lof the
moving spirits in the Jamestown ex-
position project. He was president
Of the exposition company and had
been working constantly, and with
marked success, in its behalf. He
had made several trips and had APP
pearcd before the legislatures Of
Pennsylvania, New jersey and New
York seeking state appropriations
for the exposition.
General Lee was in Boston Thurs
day to advocate the representation
Of Massachusetts at the exposition
in 1907. He appeared before the
Legislative committee on federal re-
llations in the afternoon and made a
strong address in favor of having
Massachusetts erect state building
Mt Jamestown. He left Boston on
Thursday evening apparently in his
usual health.
General Lee was sixty-eight years
old and always had enjoyed robust
health. However, he had led an eS-
ceptionally active life. he served
in Indian wars on the Mexican bor-
der, was in the Confederate army
during the civil war and his con-
spieuous service in the Spanish
war is current history.
Since he took up the work Of the
jamestown exposition he had made
his official residence in Norfolk.
However, his activities in connection
with this work had given him little
time there. During the session Of
Congress just closed the general
spent a large part of his time in
Washington in the interest of the
necessary legislation authorizing the
exposition.
BY Associated Press.
Washington, D. c.. May 1.-The
body of General Fifzhuph Lee last