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588 and sciences. He is the author of Preachan«l other works.

New Age;

the

Lyman, Benjamin Smith, mining engineer, was umpton, Mass. geologist,

Inirn Dec. 11,

In

IS."?.'),

in

North-

he graduatcu from university; Harvard and stu<lied mining in I'aris and KreilxMg. 1873-75 he was In

18.'».j

chief

g«M)logiht

mining engineer geological

an«l of tin* of

survey

Hokkaido

in .lapan; lK7»i-77 of the oil and lands of Japan finally tilling a similar ollice on the gculogical survev of .lapan in 1878-81). In 1887-05 he wa» assistant gwlogist for the state of IN'nnsylvania. He has traveh'urinK the war he became a lieutenant in the fourteenth repiment Conlie was for necticut volunteer infantry. thirty years in the public service, as chief clerk rniteasurer"s office; chief examiner; I'niled States <'ivil service commissioner; and as president I'nited States He died March civil servi«-e commissioners. in



ini3. in Washington. I>.( Lyman, Charles H., journalist, publisher, was born Feb. 28. 1851, in Tomeroy, Ohio, lie was educate<l in the grammar and hi;;h He si'hools of the place of bis nativity. learned the jtrinter's trade in the office of the Meigs County Telegraph of I'omeroy. Ohio: and » now editor of the Bundle of Sticks, a monthly publication devoted to odd fellowship, published in Columbus. Ohio, lie has been grand warden and for the past fifteen years, grand secretary of the independent «trder of «»ddfellows of Ohio. 23.

Lyman, Chester Smith, educator, astronoautlior. was Isirn Jan. 13. 1814. in

iM'eii connected with the institute of normal methods as He instructor in imblic schools of musi<-. has written a great amount of music, including songs, school music and church music. Lyman, George Alexander, journalist, lecturer, was born June 26. 1839. in Winchester. N.I I. In 1855 he graduated from the Northfield institute Mas-s. of Northfield. He is the editor and owner of The Journal r and is / of Amboy. Ill ^S^j^^V postmaster of that

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Lyman, Daniel Wanton, state legislator, pliilantliropisl. was born Jan. 24. 1844. in U.I. For several terms he represented the town of North Providence in the general assembly. In addition to fifty thousand dollars that he beqeathed to Brown university, he left by his will sixty thousand dollars to the Society for the Prevention

Providence.

has been an writer on

and economy, and social

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is

He

extensive

ifl^^^^^f

political is

known

as a champion of the

cause of popular education and also of He higher education. lecturer of the .merican 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. His two sons. James A., and (leorge U., are promi-

nent e<lucators.

Lyman, Henry, missionary, author, was

bom N<iv. He was a

1809. in Northampton. Mass. missionary at Sumatra, and was by the Battahs on June 28, 1834. He was the author of a volume entitled Condition of Females in Pagan CounkilliMl

23.

there

tries.

Lyman, Henry Munson, educator,

physiauthor, was born Nov. 26. 18.35, in He was a Chicago phyIslands. sician, jirofessor of medicine in Hush MediHe was the author of Insomnia cal colleire. and Other Disorders of Sleep: Artificial Ameslliesia and Practice of Medicine. lie died in 1904. in Chicago, III. cian,

Hawaiian



Lyman, Joseph, clergyman, author, was iKtrn

.V|>ril

14.

1749.

in

I^banon,

Conn.

He was

an original memlnT of the AmeriForeign Missionarj' society, and its presHe published numerous ident from 1823. sermons. He di<Ml March 27, 1828, in Hat«-an

field.

Conn.

Lyman, Joseph,

Daniel, lawyer, jurist. In 1812was chief justice of the supreme court

19,

Since 1890 he has

Conn.

Lyman.

died Dec.

Lyman, Frederick A., musician, compoHcr, was born April 22. 1864, in Columbia. Conn.

mer,

Manchester, Conn. When surveyor of California he sent to the eastern slates one of the earlii^t aiilli<-ntic Hccounts of the dis<'overy of cold. He was also one of the reviserH of Webster's I)i<'tionary for the edition of I8ri4. He died Jan. 29, 1890. iu New Haven.

He

of Cruelty to Children. 1886, in i'rovidence. R.I.

siddier,

lawyer, jurist,

state lepislator. congressman, was born Sept. He entered the 13. 1840. in Lyons. .Mich. 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 muslere<l out of service in 1865 was adjutant-general of Ihe army of the Rio Grande. He was eiindling clerk in the state house

of re pn-senta fives in

was deputy In

1SH4

collin-tor

1866; and of

he was circuit

in

1867-70

internal revenue. judge of the thir-