Doctor Lee was born in 1881 in San Francisco, California to Lee Tong Hay, a lay leader of the forming Chinese Methodist Church associated with Review Doctor Otis Gibson"s missions that would become the Chinese Community United Methodist Church.
Lee graduated from University of the Pacific.
Lee financed the building of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance lodge in Oakland, California. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake Doctor Lee relocated to San Jose, California then settling in Oakland becoming Oakland Chinatown"s first dentist. His practice continued till his retirement in 1940.
He was an active participant in civil affairs founding Oakland"s Chinese American Citizens Alliance in 1912.
He is interred in Oakland.
Lee was also a lay leader of the Chinese Community Methodist Church of Oakland, a member of the Oakland Chinese Center and a member of the Lee Family Benevolent Association.
