Lahee a étudié au St Michael’s College de Tenbury et au Nautical Training College de Greenhithe. Installé à Boston depuis 1880, il a été secrétaire du conservatoire de musique de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, de 1891 à 1899, et établi une agence musicale à Boston, en 1899.
Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages de référence biographiques détaillés sur les musiciens[1].
(en) Famous singers of to-day and yesterday, Boston, L. C. Page and Co, , ix, 11-337, 12 portr. (incl. frontispice) 20 cm (OCLC1080151373, lire en ligne).
(en) Famous violinists of to-day and yesterday, Boston, L. C. Page and Co, , 384 p., 10 portr. ; 18 cm (OCLC857276, lire en ligne).
(en) Famous pianists of to-day and yesterday, Boston, L. C. Page and Co, , 345 p., 10 portr. 18 cm (OCLC854884).
(en) Grand opera in America : illustrated, Boston, L. C. Page and Co, , xi-348, frontispice, portr. ; In-8° (OCLC561519016, lire en ligne).
(en) The organ and its masters : a short account of the most celebrated organists of former days, as well as some of the more prominent organ virtuosi of the present time, together with a brief sketch of the development of organ construction, organ music, and organ playing, Boston, L. C. Page and Co, , 345 p., 14 p. de pl. : illust., portr. ; 20 cm (OCLC54961027, lire en ligne).
(en) The grand opera singers of to-day : an account of the leading operatic stars who have sung during recent years, together with a sketch of the chief operatic enterprises, Boston, L. C. Page and Co, , x, 261, portr. ; 21 cm (OCLC940183151, lire en ligne).
(en) Annals of Music in America : a chronological record of significant musical events, from 1640 to the present day, with comments on the various periods into which the work is divided, Boston, Marshall Jones, , 298 p., 21 cm (OCLC639878153, lire en ligne).