Dr.
Charles Goodall Lee
(1881 ??? 1973) was an
American
dentist, and the first licensed
Chinese American dentist, and financed the lodge building of the
Chinese American Citizens Alliance in
Oakland, California. Lee graduated from
University of the Pacific
.
Dr. Lee was born in 1881 in
San Francisco, California. After the
1906 San Francisco earthquake he relocated to
San Jose, California then settling in Oakland becoming
Oakland Chinatown's first dentist. His practice continued till his retirement in 1940. He was an active participant in civil affairs founding Oakland's
Chinese American Citizens Alliance in 1912. He was a lay leader of the
Chinese Community Methodist Church of Oakland, a member of the Oakland Chinese Center and a member of the Lee Family Benevolent Association.
He was married to
Clara Elizabeth Chan who was the first woman Chinese American voter in the United States.
He is interred in
Oakland
.
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