Frances (Glessner) Lee (1878 - 1962)

Born 25 Mar 1878 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

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Died 27 Jan 1962 at age 83 in Bethlehem, Grafton County, New Hampshire

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Frances (Glessner) Lee is Notable.

• d/o John Jacob Glessner, industrialist (International Harvester)^[1] & Sarah Frances Macbeth^[2]
• heiress who bucked societal expectations
• 9 Feb1898^[3] m. Blewett Lee - distantly related to Robert E. Lee^[2] (divorced 1914) - 3 children
• 1930 inherited fortune after her brother died and began pursuing her educational interests^[2]
• 1943 made Honorary Captain in the New Hampshire State Police (no other woman had held that honor)^[1][2]
• Rumoured to be the basis of the character "Jessica Fletcher" played by Angela Lansbury in the series Murder She Wrote.
• Erle Stanley Gardner (writer, Perry Mason) was a close friend^[4]

Frances Glessner Lee (March 25, 1878 – Jan. 27, 1962) was influential in developing the science of forensics in the United States. To this end, she created the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, 20 true crime scene dioramas recreated in minute detail at dollhouse scale, used for training homicide investigators. Eighteen of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death are still in use for teaching purposes by the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and the dioramas are also now considered works of art. Lee also helped to establish the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard, and endowed the Magrath Library of Legal Medicine there. She became the first female police captain in the United States, and is known as the "mother of forensic science".

(From the Wikipedia)

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Wikipedia: Frances Glessner Lee, accessed 8 Oct 2016
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Frey, Holly and Tracy V. Wilson. "Frances Glessner Lee and Tiny Forensics." Stuff You Missed in History Class (podcast). 14 May 2014. HowStuffWorks.com (Web)
3. ↑ Glessner House: The People (Frances Glessner Lee "Fanny"), accessed 8 Oct 2016
4. ↑ Wisible Proofs: Biographies (Frances Glessner Lee)

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"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXN5-P54 : accessed 19 May 2015), Frances Glessner in household of John J Glessner, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district 98, sheet 354B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0192; FHL microfilm 1,254,192.

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKHP-BZL : accessed 14 March 2018), Frances G Lee, Chicago Ward 1, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 166, sheet 8A, family 107, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 241; FHL microfilm 1,374,254.

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX1L-5JY : accessed 14 March 2018), Frances G Lee, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing ED 164, sheet 12A, line 41, family 244, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 721; FHL microfilm 1,820,721.

"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XS5Q-ZJP : accessed 14 March 2018), Frances G Lee, Chicago (Districts 1501-1750), Cook, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1591, sheet 17B, line 89, family 265, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 484; FHL microfilm 2,340,219.

"United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV5Y-CTD6 : 4 September 2015), Frances Glessner Lee, 1923; citing Passport Application, Illinois, United States, source certificate #242087, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 2161, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

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