Merchant
Centurion, 1896–1921
Born 19 June 1855 in New York (Brooklyn), New York
Died 1 January 1921 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Green-Wood Cemetery
, Brooklyn, New York
Proposed by Charles Comfort Tiffany and Eliphalet Terry
Elected 2 May 1896 at age forty
Archivist’s Note: Nephew of Gideon Lee
Century Memorial
Charles H. Lee was one of our members from the mercantile trade whose actual qualifications as amateur were only known by chance to his fellow-Centurions. A wide reader and exceedingly well-informed, he used to spend his summer holiday in sketching, and was in fact an amateur landscape painter of unusual distinction. He was retiring by nature, but those who knew him best characterized him as a good companion and a typical Centurion of the old type.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1921 Century Association Yearbook