Background
Lee, Homer was born on May 18, 1856 in Mansfield, Ohio, United States. Son of John A. and Elizabeth Lee.
Lee, Homer was born on May 18, 1856 in Mansfield, Ohio, United States. Son of John A. and Elizabeth Lee.
Studied under father and Robert Mackintosh, Toronto, Canada. Afterwards studied abroad.
Regular exhibitor at National Academy Design, also in London and Paris. Honorable mention, Vienna, 1873. Designed Arms of the United States, which surmounted the entrance to the United States Pavilion at Vienna.
1st class medal, State of Ohio, 1887.
Honorable mention, Paris Exposition, 1900. Picture, “Building of the Sky Scraper,” was purchased by French government.
Represented in the Lotos and Salmagundi clubs, New York, and elsewhere. Exhibited Buffalo Exposition, 1901.
Bronze medal, Charleston, South Carolina., Exposition, 1902, pictures, “Skyscrapers,” and Saint Louis Exposition, 1904.
Assistant to commissioner of fine arts and the supervising architect, West Indian Exposition, Charleston, 1901-1902. Was founder and president Homer Lee Bank Note Сompany. Vice president Franklin Lee Bank Note Company, New New York
President Hamilton Bank Note Company Inventor of the Homer Lee rotary steel plate printing system, together with numbering devices used by United States Treasury Department on government bonds and bank notes, and also used abroad.
Also inventor of the “steelograph” process and of many improvements in linotype composing machines. Appointed member of staff governor of Ohio.
Colonel of Continental Guards. A founder and commissioner Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909.
Member of committee on liturgy, appointed by General Assembly Presbyterian Church United States of America (Los Angeles, California), which produced the Van Dyke prayer book Mason (32°). A founder of Saint John's Guild Floating Hospital.
Married Charlotte B. Riddle, 1891.