| Albert Miller Lea: A Towering East Texas Pioneer (4189 words) |
 | Lea was commissioned a lieutenant in the Thirteenth United States Artillery, but because he was gallant enough to wish to please Magruder's fiancee by trading assignments, Lea ended up in the Seventh Infantry Regiment at Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory, at that time considered to be on the extreme western frontier. |
| Lea recalled in his autobiography of 1879 that while Joseph N. Nicollet was mapping his first surveys of the Upper Mississippi River in Washington, D. C., in 1841, Lea suggested to Nicollet that the beautiful, horse-shaped lake be listed at Lake Chapeau, the name given to it by the French fur traders. |
| Albert Lea and his family were active members of St. John's Episcopal Church at Collin and 14th Streets in Corsicana, where "a large stained glass window still bears the name of Lea." Albert Lee is credited with having drawn up the plans for the first St. John's Church. |
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