Lee, Alfred, 1807-1887
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Name (Latin)
Lee, Alfred, 1807-1887
Date of birth
1807
Date of death
1887
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- nuc89-31814: His The Christian citizen's duty in the present crisis [MI] 1861(hdg. on LCP rept.: Lee, Alfred, Bp., 1807-1887)
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Wikipedia description:
Alfred Lee (September 9, 1807 – April 12, 1887) was an American Episcopal bishop. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard in 1827, and after three years practicing law in New London, Connecticut, he studied for the ministry, graduating from the General Theological Seminary, New York, in 1837. He was rector of Calvary Church, in Rockdale, Pa., from 1838 to 1841, when he was chosen as the first Bishop of Delaware. In 1842 he also became rector of St. Andrew's, Wilmington. He was a member of the American Committee for the Revision of the New Testament (1881). In 1884 he succeeded Bishop Smith as presiding bishop of the Episcopal church.
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