Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Henry Charles LEA
Henry C. Lea, born at Philadelphia in 1825, has become a historian of such ability and prominence
that mention of him is requisite. At the age of seventeen he entered the publishing house of his father, and ultimately became its principal. In his younger studies he followed his father's example, and published several papers on chemistry and conchology. During the Civil War he organized a system of municipal bounties, to encourage volunteers. Since I857 he has devoted himself specially to the study of mediaeval customs and institutions, and has published a number of highly valuable
historical works, including " Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Battle, the Wager of Law, the Ordeal and Torture," " An Historical View of Sacerdotal Celibacy," "Studies in Church History," and "A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages." His brother, Mathew Carey Lea, has been a deep student in chemistry, particularly in its relations to photography, and is the author of " Manual of Photography," a work of standard authority.
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