Lyman, Joseph
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1840, in Lyons, Mich. He entered the union army in 1861, as a private in the fourth regiment of Iowa cavalry; rose to the rank of major, and at the time he was mustered out of service, in 1865, was adjutant-general of the army of the Rio Grande. He was enrolling clerk in the state house of representatives in 1866, and from 1867 to 1870 was deputy collector of internal revenue. In 1884 he was circuit judge of the thirteenth judicial district of Iowa, and in 1884 was elected a