Biography

Mentioned in 18610428FAS_WHS as having held "a meeting of ladies" who were planning an "organization of a society to sew for the hospitals of the volunteers." D.K. Lee was a Reverend in Auburn. According to the History of Cayuga County by Eliot G. Storke, he was very involved in helping to mobilize the Union Troops.

"First Public Meeting of the Citizens of 
Auburn. — On the 20th day of April, the citizens of Auburn met at the Court House to devise plans in aid of enlistments. While the people were assembling, the news reached them of 
the attack upon the Massachusetts troops in 
their passage through the city of Baltimore. 
The effect upon the people was electrical. 
Rarely has there been seen deeper or more intense feeling than at that hour swayed the large 
audience. General Jesse Segoine, C. S. Burtis, 
C. C. Dennis, T. M. Pomeroy, S. Willard, Richard Steel, Rev. D. K. Lee, E. B. Lansing and 
others addressed the assembly, and their earnest 
and_ impassioned utterances aroused the people, 
stirring them beyond the power of language to 
express. They resolved to maintain the Union, 
and yielded to it every possible support. They 
raised an impromptu fund of four thousand 
dollars for the support of the families of the volunteers, the distribution of which was entrusted 
to Charles P. Wood, John H. Chedell and the 
Mayor of the City, George Humphrey, a trust 
involving much difficult labor, devolving largely 
on Mr. Wood, but which was faithfully and judi
ciously executed." 

Also, according to find-a-grave, he went on to become the pastor of the Third Universalist Church in New York City on Bleecker Street.  According to find-a-grave and from the New York Tribune, New York NY, Fri. 4 Jun 1869: "The Rev. Dr. Lee was born in Sempronius, Cayuga County, N.Y., September 10, 1816, and entered the ministry in 1835, preaching his first sermon in Ann Arbor, Mich. He has been settled as pastor of Universalist societies in Newark, N.J. [should be Newark, N.Y.], Salem, Mass., Southbridge, Mass., Williamsburgh, L.I., Ogdensburgh, N.Y., Auburn, N.Y., and this city, removing from Auburn to New-York in June, 1865. He received the honorary degree of M.A. from Tufts College, Mass., in 1864, and that of D.D. from the Theological School of St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y. in 1868. Dr. Lee was an indefatigable worker not only in his parish and in preparing his sermons, which always contained something fresh and interesting, but also in many benevolent and philanthropic undertakings. He was also an extensive writer, contributing frequently to the Universalist denominational newspapers and other periodicals, and also preparing for publication a series of books under the general title of "Tales of Labor," comprising four volumes. He was of a fine poetic and highly sympathetic temperament, and possessed of eminent social qualities that endeared him to all with whom he came in contact, and was particularly popular with the members of the Bleecker-st. Society, which he has been greatly instrumental in building up. He was the founder of the Lee Literary Association, composed of members of that Society and of which he was President, and did so much to promote unity and harmony among the members of the Society, that he was looked on more as a father than as a pastor."