Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . tive tothe Legislature for several terms, serving as Speakerof the House of Representatives, the death of United States Senator NicholasOilman, in 1814, Mr. Thompson was appointed tofill the unexpired term, and occupied that seat fromSeptember 19, 1814, to March 3, 1817. He wasalso a Representative in Congress for one term andwas elected Treasurer of his state. In 1802, Dart-mouth made him an honorary
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . tive tothe Legislature for several terms, serving as Speakerof the House of Representatives, the death of United States Senator NicholasOilman, in 1814, Mr. Thompson was appointed tofill the unexpired term, and occupied that seat fromSeptember 19, 1814, to March 3, 1817. He wasalso a Representative in Congress for one term andwas elected Treasurer of his state. In 1802, Dart-mouth made him an honorary Master of .^rts. died in Concord, New Hampshire,October i, 1821. LEE, Henry Harvard in Boston, Mass., 1817; graduated Harvard,1836 ; member of staff of Gov. Andrew during the CivilWar; banker; Overseer of Harvard from 1867; died1898. HENRY LEE, , Banker and Overseer ofHarvard, was born in Boston, Massachu-setts, September 2, 1817. He was the eldest sonof Henry Lee of Boston, Massachusetts, merchantand political economist, whose writings in the daysof the earlier tariff agitation, notably his BostonReport of 1827, are standard in support of free. HENRY LEE trade. At the Free Trade Convention at Philadel-phia in 1831, the elder Henry Lee was associatedwith Albert Gallatin in preparing the statisticalpresentation of the effects of the tariff. HenryLee, the son, was graduated at Harvard in theClass of 1836 and received the degree of Master ofArts in course. He engaged first in the East Indiatrade and afterwards in the. banking business inBoston, and was for many years the senior memberof the house of Lee, Higginson & Company. Dur-ing the Civil War, Mr. Lee served on the staff ofGovernor John A. Andrew. His public spirit mani-fested itself in activity in enterprises of charity andeducation throughout a long life. He was a mem-ber of the Massachusetts Historical Society and UNIFERSITIES AND THEIR SONS 49 J was chosen an Overseer of Harvard in 1867, serv
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