Lynde, Benjamin – Maben, William Nelson
Lynde, Benjamin
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 4, 1700, in Salem, Mass. He became judge of sessions and common pleas, and in 1745 succeeded his father as chief justice of the colony of Massachusetts. He died Oct. 9, 1781, in Salem, Mass.
Lynde, Dolphus S
merchant, banker, legislator, was born July 1, 1833, in Antwerp, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, and then attended the Wesleyan seminary of Gouverneur, N. Y. During 1871-75 he was a member of the New York state assembly for four consecutive terms; and during 1878-84 was a member of the New York state senate. He served on important committees in both houses of the legislature; and was a member of the finance committee of the senate during the last four years of his service. In 1887 he organized the First National bank of Canton, N. Y., and has been its president since date of organization. He was one of the original stockholders of the First National bank of Gouverneur, N. Y., and was one of its board of directors from its organization until 1887. For twenty years he was a successful merchant at Hermon, N. Y.; and since 1854 has been a successful real estate operator.
Lynde, William Pitt
lawyer, mayor, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 16, 1817, in Sherburne, N. Y. In 1844 he was attorney-general of Wisconsin territory; in 1845 was appointed United States district attorney of Wisconsin, and held the position until the admission of the state. In 1848 he was elected a representative to congress; and in 1860 was elected mayor of Milwaukee. He was a member of the assembly in 1866, and elected a state senator in 1868. In 1874 he was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
He died Dec. 18, 1885, in Milwaukee, Wis.
Lyndon, Josiah
governor, was born March 10, 1724, in Newport, R. I. He was governor of the state of Rhode Island in 1768. He died March 30, 1778, in Warren, R. I.
Lynds, William B
educator, poet.
He is a successful educator, and for many years superintendent of public instruction of Wheeler county, Neb. He has also been successful in fruit-growing. He has contributed extensively to current literature on educational topics; and his poems have been published in a volume entitled Poetical Works.
Lynn, George
journalist, lawyer, poet, was born Feb. 7, 1822, in England.
For thirty-five years he was a journalist in Lockport, Ill.; and since 1887 in Hastings, Neb., where he now practices law. For awhile he was editor and owner of Our Own Opinion; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Lyon, Anne Bozeman
author, was born in 1860, in Alabama. She is a southern writer of fiction; and the author of No Saint; and A Sterlings Camp.
Lyon, Asa
clergyman, jurist, legislator, congressman, author, was born Dec. 31, 1763, in Pomfret, Conn. He was appointed chief judge of Grand Isle county in 1805, serving as such for nine years; and was elected to the legislature as a representative from South Hero in 1800- 08; and from Grand Isle in 1810-11. He was a member of the executive council in 1808; and was elected a member of congress from 1815-17. He was a member of the corporation of the university of Vermont from 1814-21. For many years and until his death he was an able preacher of the gospel. He died April 4, 1841, in South Hero, Conn.
Lyon, Caleb
state senator, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 7, 1822, in Lyondale, N. Y. He was secretary of the convention called in 1849 to form a constitution for California; and designed the coat of arms for the golden state. From his native state he was elected to the assembly, and was elected to the state senate. He was elected a representative in the thirty-third congress from New York; and in 1864 was appointed governor of Idaho. He died Sept. 8, 1875, on Staten Island, N. Y.
Lyon, Chittenden
legislator, congressman, was born in 1786, in Vermont. He served in both houses of the Kentucky state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1827 to 1835. He was the son of Matthew Lyon. He died Nov. 8, 1842, in Caldwell county, Ky.
Lyon, David Gordon
educator, author, was born May 24, 1852, in Benton, Ala. Since 1882 he has been professor of divinity in the Harvard university; he is well versed in Semitic languages and history, and is curator of the Harvard Semitic museum. He is the author of An Assyrian Manual, and other works.
Lyon, Ernest
clergyman, was born Sept. 22, 1860, in British Honduras. He received a liberal education, and graduated from the classical department of the New Orleans university. He studied theology in the Gilbert Seminary and the Union Theological seminary of New York city. He has filled pastorates in the methodist episcopal church, in the Mallalieu chapel in New Orleans, and at St. Mark's church in New York city. He has been special agent of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education society; statistical secretary of the Louisiana annual conference; president of the New York preachers' meeting; and has filled various other high positions in the gift of his church.
Lyon, Francis S
congressman, was born in North Carolina. He settled in Alabama; and was elected a representative in congress from 1835 to 1839.
Lyon, George Reed
soldier, merchant, legislator, was born July 19, 1846, in Waukegan, Ill., then called Little Fort.
During the civil war he served in company C, sixty-ninth regiment volunteer infantry; and subsequently was sergeant of company K, sixty-fourth regiment. He is a successful merchant of Waukegan, Ill.; and in 1896 was elected a member of the general assembly of the Illinois state legislature.
Lyon, Irving Whitall
physician, author, was born in 1840, in New York.
He was a Hartford physician who wrote Silva; Manitou Island; Burkett's Lock; St. John's Wooing; and The Old Post Road. He died in 1896.
Lyon, John Christian
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 11, 1802, in Ger- He has been called the founder many. of the German methodist church in the United States. He was the editor and translator of several theological works.
He died May 21, 1868, in Cantonville, Md.
Lyon, Lucius
surveyor, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1800, in Sherburne, Vt. He emigrated to Michigan. He was a delegate to congress from Michigan territory during the years 1833- 35; was a senator in congress from the state of Michigan from 1836-40; and was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1845. His last public position was that of surveyor-general in the northwest. He died Sept. 24, 1851, in Detroit, Mich.
Lyon, Mary
educator, was born Feb. 28, 1797, in Buckland, Mass. She was the founder of Mount Holyoke seminary, of which she was principal in 1837-49; and it is an abiding monument to her energy and sublime faith. She died March 5, 1849, in South Hadley.
Lyon, Matthew
statesman, was born in 1746, in Ireland. He settled in Vermont after the war; and was elected a member of the state legislature in 1779, and the four succeeding years. In 1783 he founded the town of Fairhaven. He served that town in the legislature ten years; and in 1786 was assistant judge of Rutland county. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1797 to 1801. He removed to Kentucky; served two years in the legislature of that state; and was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1803 to 1811. In 1820 he was appointed a factor among the Cherokee Indians in Arkansas. When that territory was organized he was elected the first delegate to congress, but did not live to take his seat. He died Aug. 1, 1822, in Spadro Bluff, Ark.
Lyon, Nathaniel
soldier, was born July 4, 1818, in Ashford, Conn. He served in Florida during the latter part of the Seminole war. In the assault on the City of Mexico he was wounded at the Belen Gate. At the close of the war he was ordered to California, and in 1850 he conducted a successful expedition against the Indians.
He died Aug. 10, 1861; being killed in the battle of Wilson's Creek, Wilson's Creek, Mo.
Lyons, Albert Brown
chemist, author, was born April 1, 1841, in the Hawaiian Islands. He is a prominent chemist of Detroit who has published a Manual of Practical Assaying.
Lyons, H. A
lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to California; and in 1851 he was appointed chief justice for the United States court of that territory.
Lyons, James Gilborne
poet, was born in England. He published Christian Songs, Translations, and other Poems.
He died Jan. 2, 1868, in Haverford, Pa.
Lytle, Robert T
congressman. He was distinguished as a public speaker; and was a member of congress from Ohio from 1833 to 1835. He died Dec. 21, 1839, in New Orleans, La.
Lyttle, William Haines
soldier, poet, was born Nov. 2, 1826, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a general in the federal army during the civil war, remembered in literature for the poem beginning, I am Dying, Egypt, Dying. He died Sept. 20, 1863; was killed in the battle of Chickamauga.
Lyttleton, William Henry
governor, was born about 1720, in England. In 1755 he was appointed governor of South Carolina, and held the post till 1760, when he was transferred to Jamaica.
He died Sept. 1, 1808.
Maben, William Nelson
lawyer, was born Jan. 29, 1873, in Caney, Tenn.
He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Fort Worth, Tex.; and at the college of Tennessee and the university of Texas. He has attained prominence as a leading commercial and corporation attorney of Texas; and is prominent in democratic politics. He organized the Lloyd Rifles of Fort Worth, Tex.; was first lieutenant of the same, and has refused the captaincy several times.