Alice Lee was born on May 27, 1853, in Westport, Essex County, New York, and died on February 18, 1943, in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, living approximately 89 years. As one of the most influential figures of the Social Movement, she had a same sex partner Katherine Teats who died in 1952. They were both aspects of the social environment by hosting two U.S. presidents and their wives at their San Diego, California, residence. Lee and Teats are, according to the San Diego Historical Resource Board, "one of the first documented domestic partnerships in San Diego", being indeed documented living together in various Census records; in the 1930 Census, Lee was the Head of Household and Teats was Partner (and not Lodger while often used in such cases). Together they owned various real estate properties in San Diego, had an active civic and social life, and were accepted as a couple. Lee is viewed as a “Civic Leader in San Diego Union, the Ticonderoga Sentinel, the Boston Globe, and Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America”. Lee died on February 18, 1943, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was spending the winter, and is buried at Hillside Cemetery, Westport. Early Adulthood Leed continued her education in Boston, Massachusetts, where the family spent the winters while growing up. Mid Adulthood In 1887, at age 34, Alice Lee purchased Marvin House (John Halstead’s original pub) in Westport, New York, transforming it into a posh hotel. Marvin house became the foundation for Westport Inn. It was open from June through October but was usually just a summer getaway for tourists. She removed bordering properties so that she could add new attractions to this hotel. Westport Inn consisted of additional "cottages", a boathouse, gardens, tennis and croquet courts, a 6-hole Golf course and the annex (located on the other side of Main Street). Alice Lee's brother, Thomas Lee, built the pipes to bring water from Mountain Spring down to the hotel which later became the town water supply. He also bottled the water to sell it. Lee sold the property to Harry P. Smith in the early 1900s. The Westport Inn was demolished in 1966, 80 years after it was built. Lee helped fund-raising for both the Westport Library (1888) and the Cutting Memorial Hall addition (1907). Cutting