Gideon Lee

   Gideon Lee was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on April 27, 1778, the son of Gideon Lee and Lucy Ward. He learned the shoemaking and tanning trades and lived in Worthington, Massachusetts, before moving to New York City and, later, to Georgia. He returned to New York in 1807, where he continued to work in the leather industry. That year, he married Laura Buffington (1790-1818), with whom he had 3 surviving children: Lucy Ward Melvin (b. 1809), Laura Theresa (1813-1840), and Samuel Buffington (b. 1816). Lucy Lee married Samuel Ward (d. 1879).

   Gideon Lee married his second wife, Isabella Williamson (b. 1800), in 1823; the two had 4 sons: Gideon (1824-1886), David (b. 1826), Charles Henry (1828-1831), and William Creighton (b. 1830). While living in New York City, he served in the state assembly (1822-1823), on the city's board of aldermen (1828-1830), as the city's mayor (1833), and in the United States House of Representatives (1835-1837). Lee retired in 1836 and moved to Geneva, New York, where he died on August 21, 1841.

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