Chaucer G. Lee (1869-1957)

LEE, WHITCOMB, RILEY, MCCARTHY, SPENCER, DAILY, ROSE

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 4/20/2019 at 14:59:00

Chaucer G. Lee, attorney and former judge of district court, died at his home in Ames, Iowa, January 4, 1957; born August 7, 1869, on a farm in Jasper county, near Kellogg, the son of James Lee, a Massachusetts Yankee whose grandfather had fought at Lexington and mother, Sarah Whitcomb Lee, related to the poet, James Whitcomb Riley; attended country school. Hazel academy at Newton, Iowa, Iowa State college at Ames and Drake University at Des Moines; was graduated from Iowa State in 1894, Drake law school in 1895 and admitted to the bar the latter year, immediately beginning the practice of law at Ames, retiring in 1945; served as Ames city attorney from 1896 to 1902 and as district judge from 1907 to 1914; a member of the American Bar association and the Iowa State Bar association, also president of the Story county bar association; during college career at Iowa State college was editor- in-chief in 1903, of the institution's first "Bomb" (annual yearbook) ever published, and in 1903-1904 was editor-in-chief of the Iowa State Student Daily; married to Emma McCarthy in 1906, who died in 1953; survived by a daughter, Mrs. Earl Spencer, Waterloo, and two sisters, Mrs. R. C. Daily, Newton, and Mrs. Morton Rose, Santa Cruz, California, two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Citation: "Iowa's Notable Dead …."The Annals of Iowa 33 (1957), 613-620.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.17077/0003-4827.7453