Lyman, Theodore
soldier, scientist, congressman, author, was born Aug. 23, 1833, in Waltham, Mass. From 1863 to the close of the civil war he was lieutenant-colonel and aide-de-camp on the staff of Major-General Meade. From 1865 to 1882 he was commissioner of fisheries of the state of Massachusetts. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
He is also a scientist of note, associated with the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy in Cambridge from 1860. His principal work is the Ophiuroidea of the Challenger Expedition.
LYMAN, THEODORE BENEDICT, bishop, was born Nov. 27, 1815, in Brighton, Mass. He was elected assistant bishop of North Carolina in 1873, and was consecrated in Christ church, Raleigh, in 1873. On the death of Bishop Atkinson, in 1881, he became bishop of the diocese.