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60 day they joined at Boston a party of nineteen missionaries that were about to sail for the Hawai- ian islands. Arriving there in May of the following year, Mr. and Mrs. Lyman were assigned to the sta- tion at Hilo, then one of the remotest of the group, but now a beautiful and thriving town. Even be- fore Mr. Lyman had entirely mastered the language he was placed in charge of the Hilo church and of its outlying dependencies. Here he preached, tauglit, arid travelled incessantly, and with the most promising results. In 1836 two co-laborers. Titus and Fidelia Coan {q. v.), arrived, and the growing pastoral work was assigned to the former, while Mr. Lyman established an academy for young men, in which he was aided by his wife. A farm was cultivated under Mr. Lyman's supervision, and the pupils were thus supplied with food mainly through their own labor. Mr. Lyman continued his work until failing strength compelled him in 1873 to give up the charge of the school to younger hands. His entire career as a missionary covered a period of fifty-two years, unbroken by any vaca- tion or by any absence from his field of labor other than that required by attendance at mission- ary meetings at Honolulu. — His son, Henry Mun- son, physician, b. in Hilo, Hawaiian islands, 26 Nov., 1835, was graduated at Williams in 1858, and at the New York college of physicians and surgeons in 1861. He was house-surgeon in Belle- vue hospital, New York city, in 1861-'2. During the latter year he volunteered in the National army as acting assistant surgeon, serving as such in the military hospitals at Nashville, Tenn., and in 1863 resigned and began practice in Chicago, where he has since resided, paying especial attention to dis- eases of the nervous sj^stem. From 1870 till 1875 he was professor of chemistry in Rush medical college, Chicago, and since 1875 has been professor of physiology and of nervous diseases in the same institution. During the latter period he has also occupied the chair of the theory and practice of medicine in the Chicago women's medical college. Dr. Lyman is a member of various professional associations, and has published " Anaesthesia and Ansesthetics " (New York, 1881) and " Insomnia and Other Disorders of Sleep " (Chicago, 1885).

LYMAN, Henry, missionary, b. in Northamp- ton, Mass., 23 Nov., 1809 ; d. in the island of Su- matra, 28 June, 1834. He was graduated at Am- herst in 1829, and at Andover theological seminary in 1832, ordained, 11 Oct., 1832, and sailed the following spring for Sumatra, being one of the first missionaries that were sent to the East Indian archipelago by the American board of commission- ers for foreign missions. He had scarcely begun his work when, with his companion, Rev. Samuel Munson, he was murdered by the savage Battahs among whom he was laboring. Mr. Lyman com- piled a tract entitled " Condition and Character of Females in Pagan and Mohammedan Countries" (Boston, 1832 ; reprinted by the American tract society, 1834). See " Memoir of Henry Lyman," by his sister (New York, 1857). — His sister, Han- nah Willard, educator, b. in Northampton, Mass., in 1816'; d. in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 21 Feb., 1871, received a thorough education, began life early as a teacher, and soon attained a high reputation. Prior to 1865 she had been for many years known as a successful and thorough educator in Montreal, Canada. She left that city six years before her death to become vice-principal of Vassar college, and to assist in its organization. She remained at her post till her health gave way shortly before her death. Miss Lyman published a memoir of her brother, which is mentioned above.

LYMAN, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Lebanon. Conn., 14 April, 1749; d. "in Hatfield, Mass., 27 March, 1828. He was graduated at Yale in 1767, served as tutor there in 1770-'l, studied the- ology, and on 4 March, 1772, was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Hatfield, Mass., where he remained until his death. He received the degree of D. D. from Williams in 1801. Dr. Lyman was one of the earliest patrons of the Hampshire missionary society, and in 1812 was chosen its president. He was also, from the be- ginning, a member of the American board of com- missioners for foreign missions, its vice-president in 1819, and its president in 1823. He was out- spoken in his earnest patriotism during the Revo- lutionary war, and ofEended many of his congre- gation by this course. In 1826 he was given an assistant. Dr. Lyman published seventeen occa- sional sermons (1774-1821).

LYMAN, Joseph, artist, b. in Ravenna, Ohio, 26 July, 1843. He studied under John H. Dolph and Samuel Colman, exhibited first at the National academy in 1876, and was elected an associate in 1886. i-Ie visited Europe in 1866, 1870, and 1883. His more important works are " Summer Night " ; "Evening" (1880); "Perce Rock, Gulf of St. Lawrence " (1881) ; " Moonlight at Sunset on the Maine Coast" (1882); "Waiting for the Tide" (1883) ; " Street in St. Augustine,"Florida " (1884) : and " Under her own Fig-Tree " (1885).

LYMAN, Joseph Bardwell, agriculturist, b. in Chester, Mass., 6 Oct., 1829; d. in Richmond Hill, L. I., 28 Jan., 1872. He was graduated at Yale in 1850, taught three years, and studied law. He was graduated from the law-school of the Uni- versity of Louisiana in 1856, practised his profes- sion in New Orleans until 1861, and then removed to Stamford, Conn. There he engaged in hor- ticulture, also writing for the " Agi'ieulturist " and other journals. Subsequently he removed to New York city, and in 1867 became agricultural editor of the " World." In 1868 he was manag- ing editor of " Hearth and Home," and a few months later joined the editorial staff of the " Trib- une," on which he served until his death. He was an active member of the Farmers' and Rural clubs, one of the managers of the American in- stitute, and connected in an honorary capacity with numerous horticultural and agricultural as- sociations. Mr. Lyman had a thorough acquaint- ance with the improved agriculture of New Eng- land, the more extensive tillage of the west, and the less diversified system of the south. He was an easy and forcible speaker. During his resi- dence at Stamford he wrote, with his wife, " The Philosophy of Plousekeeping " (Hartford, 1867). He also published " Resources of the Pacific States " (Hartford, 1865) : " Women of the War " (1866) ; and " Cotton Culture " (New York, 1867) ; and left several unfinished works on agriculture. — His wife. Laura Elizaheth Baker, journalist, b. in Kent's Hill, Kennebec eo.. Me., 2 April. 1831, was graduated at the Wesleyan academy, Wilbra.- ham, Mass., in 1849. She married Mr. Lyman on 14 July, 1858, and in 1870 became known by a series of articles that were published in " Hearth and Home " imder the pen-name of " Kate Hunnibee." In 1875 she was president of the Woman's physi- ological society of Brooklyn, N". Y. She edited the " Home Interest " department in the New York " Tribune " in 1869-'87, and the " Dining-Room Magazine," in 1876-'7.

LYMAN, Phineas, soldier, b. in Durham, Conn., in 1716: d. near Natchez, Miss., 10 Sept., 1774. He was bred to the trade of a weaver, but subse-