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Frances Glessner Lee (&#;)

Frances Glessner Lee (&#;), a New England socialite and heiress, dedicated her life to the advancement of forensic medicine and scientific crime detection.

The seeds of her interest began when her brother's college classmate, George Burgess Magrath (&#;), vacationed with the Glessner family at their summer home in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Magrath, then a medical student, went on to teach legal medicine at Harvard and to become the chief medical examiner of Suffolk County (Boston).

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In Mrs. Lee helped to establish the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard, the only such program then in existence in North America. From that time on, she became a tireless advocate for forensic science. In she presented the department with a collection of books and manuscripts, which became the Magrath Library of Legal Med