Lyman, Charles – Lynch, William Francis
Lyman, Charles
soldier, lawyer, public official, was born April 10, 1843, in Bolton, Conn. During the war he became a lieutenant in the fourteenth regiment Connecticut volunteer infantry. He is a successful lawyer of Washington, D. C.; and has been an official for thirty years in the public service, as chief clerk United States treasurer's office; chief examiner; United States civil service commissioner; and as president United States civil service commissioners.
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, George Alexander
journalist, lecturer, was born June 26, 1838, in Winchester, N. H. In 1855 he graduated from the Northfield institute of Northfield, Mass. He is the editor and owner of The Journal of Amboy, Ill., and has been an extensive writer on social and political economy, and is known as a champion of the cause of popular education and also of higher education. He is a lecturer of the American Institute of Civics, and a brilliant orator. He takes an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state; is a prominent member of several fraternal orders, in which he has held many positions of honor.
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
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
Lynch, Charles
governor. He was governor of Mississippi from 1835 to 1837; his uncle, John Lynch, was the founder of Lynchburg, in Virginia, and his father, bearing his own name, was a distinguished officer in the revolutionary war; the term Lynch law was occasioned by his apprehending and punishing, without legal ceremony or delay, a lawless band of desrepresentative from Iowa to the forty-peradoes and tories who had infested the ninth congress, and re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.
Lyman, Joseph
artist, was born July 26, 1843, in Ravenna, Ohio. His more important works are Summer Night; Evening; Moonlight at Sunset on the Maine Coast; Waiting for the Tide; Street in St.
Augustine, Florida.
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, 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.
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.
Lynch, John
merchant, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1825, in Portland, Maine. He served two terms in the state legislature. He was elected a representative from Maine to the thirtyninth congress; and was re-elected to the fortieth, forty-first and forty-second congresses as a republican.
Lynch, John
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 1, 1843, in Providence, R.
I. Since 1865 he has been in the active practice of law in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Lynch, John Roy
jurist, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1847, in Concordia parish, La. In 1869 he was appointed a justice of the peace in Natchez, Miss. He was elected to the state legislature from Adams county in 1870; and re-elected in 1871. He was elected to the forty-third congress, and re-elected to the forty-fourth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Lynch, Thomas
congressman, was born about 1720, in South Carolina. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1774 to 1776. He had also been a delegate to the colonial congress in 1765. He died in 1776, in South Carolina.
Lynch, Thomas
signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born Aug. 5, 1749, in Prince George parish, S. C. In 1775 he was commissioned a captain in the militia service. In 1776 he was elected a delegate to the continental congress, and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Lynch, Thomas
lawyer, legislator, mayor, congressman, was born Nov. 21, 1844, in Milwaukee county, Wis. He was a member of the Wisconsin legislature in 1873 and 1883; and was district attorney of the county from 1878 to 1882. In 1883 he moved to Antigo, where he now resides. He was mayor of Antigo in 1885 and again in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fiftythird congress as a democrat.
Lynch, William Francis
soldier, author, was born in April, 1801, in Norfolk, Va. He was a naval officer of prominence as an explorer, and the author of Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea; and Naval Life, or Afloat and Ashore.
In addition to his published works, he contributed valuable articles on scientific and naval subjects to the leading newspapers and magazines of the United States. He died Oct. 17, 1865, in Baltimore, Md. $606