Lee, Edmund Francis
Edmund Francis Lee (1809 - July 18, 1857) was an American surveyor and civil engineer active in the early to mid-19th century. Lee is most famous for the 'Lee Map', the first survey of Mammoth Cave. Lee was born in Berlin, Connecticut and studied civil engineering at the American Literary, Scientific, and Military (A. L. S. M.) Academy. He relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio around 1835, where he drafted one of the first maps of Texas for Joseph A. James (1807 - 1882). Shortly thereafter he was contracted to chart the first 8 miles of Mammoth Cave. The subsequent map became the definitive map of Mammoth Cave until it was resurveyed in the 1880s. Subsequently in mid-1836, Lee relocated to Jeffersonville, Indiana where he taught geography, mathematics, drafting, surveying, and civil engineering in the newly formed Literary and Scientific Academy. He was apparently poorly suited to teaching, and resumed civil engineering, re-platting Jeffersonville and other towns in Kentucky in Indiana. In 1846 he was elected county surveyor of Louisville, Kentucky. In this position he completed, in 1850, a detailed topographical survey of Kentucky became the definitive map of the state throughout the Civil War (1861 - 1865). He also designed several cemeteries, including Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville.
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