Page:History of Oregon Literature.djvu/622

 to the Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speaking the language of Shakespeare and Milton, is an august conception."

Horace S. Lyman was the son of the Reverend Horace Lyman, pioneer Congregational minister, and the brother of William D. Lyman, author of The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce.

He was born in 1855 on a farm in Polk County and was a cripple from childhood. A few years later the family moved to Forest Grove, where his father became a professor in Pacific University, from which he was graduated in 1878. "He always bore the distinction of being a good writer and showed a marked interest in the history of the state." He took a theological course in Oberlin College, entered the ministry and filled a number of pulpits. In the later period of his life he was for eight years county superintendent of schools of Clatsop County. In the summer of 1904 he had charge of the historical and educational features of the Oregon exhibit at the St. Louis fair. In the following winter, on December 22, 1904, he died in Portland. "All who knew Professor Lyman say he was a likeable man. He knew more of Oregon's early history than anyone, perhaps, in the state, and he wrote on the subject from the time of his college days. The personality of Professor Lyman was impressive, though he was a modest, retiring man." He was the author of History of Oregon: The Growth of an American State, 4 volumes, 1903. The associate board of editors were Harvey W. Scott, Charles B. Bellinger and Frederic G. Young. The latter gave much attention to editing the volumes, which were published in attractive format.

It has been estimated that between five and ten thousand Oregonians went to the California gold mines. The former figure, at least covering the period prior to 1 850, is probably nearer correct.... No small proportion remained in the Golden State and became its first citizens. But probably the larger number still considered themselves Oregonians, and remembered their homes in the Willamette or along the