Windsor

LEE, Frederic Schiller

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 249

Frederic Schiller LEE, educator, physiologist, Woodstock [Windsor County, 
Vermont], was born 16 June 1859 at Canton [St. Lawrence County], New York, 
son of Rev. Dr. John Stebbins and Elmina (BENNETT) LEE. His father was a 
native of Vernon [Windham County, Vermont]; graduate of Amherst College, 
1845, and held various positions as clergyman and educator in Vermont before 
becoming President of St. Lawrence University in 1859. The subject was 
educated in public schools of Canton, New York; graduated St. Lawrence 
University A. B., 1878, A. M., 1881; Ph. D., Johns Hopkins University, 1886; 
post graduate study, specializing in physiology, University of Leipzig, 
Germany, under Ludwig, 1885-1886. Instructor in biology, St. Lawrence 
University, 1886-1887; instructor in physiology and histology, Bryn Mawr 
College, 1887-1888; associate same, 1888-1891; demonstrator physiology, 
Columbia University, 1891-1895; adjunct professor physiology, 1893-1904; 
present title, Dalton professor of physiology, and director of department of 
physiology. Author, translator and editor. [Names of works omitted.] 
Contributor to scientific journals of numerous papers on physiological topics.

Republican. Universalist. Member American Society of Naturalists; American 
Physiological Society; Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (former 
President); Harvey Society; New York State Science Teachers' Association; 
American School Hygiene Association; American Nature Study Society; Vermont 
Botanical Club; associate fellow New York Academy of Medicine; fellow 
American Association for Advancement of Science; American Ethnological 
Society; New York Academy of Sciences; New York Zoological Society; 
scientific director New York Botanical Garden; member board of trustees 
Columbia University; Press member Editorial Board American Journal of 
Physiology, and Columbia University Quarterly; Phi Beta Kappa; Sigma Xi, Beta 
Theta Pi, Century Club of New York. New York residence: 125 East 65th 
Street. In 1901 he [Frederic Schiller LEE] married Laura BILLINGS, daughter 
of Hon. Frederick BILLINGS of Woodstock, formerly president of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad. They have two children, Julia and Frederick Billings.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly