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Lyman, Chester Smith

educator, astronomer, author, was born Jan. 13, 1814, in Manchester, Conn. When surveyor of California he sent to the eastern states one of the earliest authentic accounts of the discovery of gold. He was also one of the revisers of Webster's Dictionary for the edition of 1864.

Lyman, Daniel Wanton

philanthropist, was born Jan. 24, 1844, in Providence, R. I. For several terms he represented the town of North Providence in the general assembly. In addition to fifty thousand dollars that he bequeathed to Brown university, he left by his will sixty thousand dollars to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. He died Dec. 19, 1886, in Providence, R. I.

Lyman, Frederick A

musician, was born April 22, 1864, in Columbia, Conn. Since 1890 he has been connected with the American Institute of Normal Methods, as instructor in public schools of music. He has written a great amount of music, including songs, school music and church music.

Lyman, Henry

missionary, author, was born Nov. 23, 1809, in Northampton, Mass. He was a missionary at Sumatra, and was there killed by the Battahs on June 28, 1834. He published a volume entitled Condition of Females in Pagan Countries.

Lyman, Henry Munson

educator, physician, author, was born Nov. 26, 1835, in Hawaiian Islands. He is a Chicago physician, professor of medicine in Rush Medical college, and the author of Insomnia and Other Disorders of Sleep; Artificial Anæsthesia; and Practice of Medicine.

Lyman, Joseph

clergyman, author, was born April 14, 1749, in Lebanon, Conn.

He was an original member of the American Foreign Missionary society, and its president from 1823. He published numerous sermons. He died March 27, 1828, in Hatfield, Conn.

Lyman, Joseph Bardwell

journalist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1829, in Chester, Mass. He was an agricultural journalist of New York city, and the author of Philosophy of Housekeeping; Resources of the Pacific States; Women of the War; and Cotton Culture. He died Jan. 28, 1873, in Richmond Hill, N. Y.

Lyman, Joseph S

congressman, was born in Hampden, Mass. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1819 to 1821.

LYMAN, LAURA ELIZABETH BAKER -KATE HUNNIBEE-journalist, author, was born April 2, 1831, in Kent's Hill, Maine. She was long an editor of Home Interests in the New York Tribune; and since editor of the Dining-Room Magazine, and contributor to several periodicals.

Lyman, Samuel

state legislator, state senator, congressman. From 1786 to 1788 he served in the legislature and from 1790 to 1793 as state senator. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1795 to 1800, when he resigned. He died in 1802.

Lyman, Theodore

philanthropist, author, was born Feb. 20, 1792, in Boston, Mass. He was a noted philanthropist of Boston, and the founder of the Lyman school at Westborough. He was the author of Three Weeks in Paris; The Political State of Italy; Account of the Hartford Convention; and The Diplomacy of the United States with Foreign Nations.

He died July 18, 1849, in Brookline, Mass.

Lyman, William

soldier, state senator, congressman, was born in 1753, in Northampton, Mass. He was brigadiergeneral of militia; was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1787; and a state senator in 1789. He was a representative in congress from 1793 to 1797; and was appointed consul to London in 1805, where he died on Oct. 1, 1811. country where he had command. He died Feb. 16, 1853, in Natchez, Miss.

Lynch, James Daniel

author, was born Jan. 16, 1836, in Mecklenburg county, Va. He is a political writer of Mississippi; and the author of Kemper County Vindicated; Bench and Bar of Mississippi; and Bench and Bar of Texas.