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 MACCABE. MACCABE. 339 and Easthampton. November 20, 1867, he entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst, from which institution he was graduated B. S., July 19, 1871. During the latter part of his senior year, and a portion of the year following, he was engaged with a party of engineers in locat- ing the line of the Massachusetts Central ROBERT W LYMAN. R. R., and also did some land surveying and city engineering until August, 1872. The four years following, until 1876, his occupation was varied, divided between sur- veying, civil- engineering, teaching, clerking and working on a farm. In 1876 Mr. Lyman began the study of law in the office of Bond Bros. & Bottum, of Northampton, and continued as a law- student there until admitted to the Hamp- shire county bar, June 27, 1878. While pursuing his law studies he taught in the evening schools, and engaged in engineer- ing, surveying, and farm work — any hon- orable labor by which he could raise funds with which to pursue his studies. In 1878 he entered the Boston University law school, and was graduated June 4, 1879, LL. B. He has since practiced law in Belchertown. May 31, 1882, he received from Governor Long a commission as special justice of the district court of Hampshire, which office he still holds. In 1882 he was appointed lecturer on rural law in the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Mr. Lyman was married in Belchertown, June 8, 1882, to a daughter of Capt. Ros- well Allen, late of Belchertown, and has one child : Paul B. Lyman. Mr. Lyman has served his town in vari- ous offices, as census enumerator in 1880 and '85 ; chairman of the Republican town committee for several years ; chairman of the board of trustees of the Calvin Bridg- man school and library fund, etc. He is a prominent Free Mason. His church connections are with the Congrega- tional church and society of Belchertown. Aside from the payment of his tuition while in college, Mr. Lyman has never re- ceived any pecuniary assistance in the way of pursuing the studies that have fitted him for his life work, but has depended upon his own earnings. He is a represen- tative self-made man. MACCABE, JOSEPH B., son of James D. and Hannah (Jackson) Maccabe, was born in Manchester, Hillsborough county, N. H., November 19, 1857. He received his educational training in the Boston schools. When eighteen years of age he edited the " National Baseball Gazette," and was also a constant contribu- tor to other papers. In 1S80 he purchased the " East Boston Argus." In June, 18S6, he purchased the " East Boston Advo- cate," and on the 19th of that month is- sued the " Argus-Advocate." This is the largest weekly newspaper in New England. Mr. Maccabe was married October 17, 1880, to Emma C, daughter of J. Albert and Mary Boynton (Lister) Plummer, whose grandparents were among the early settlers of Boston, but, being royalists, fled during the revolution to St. John. They haveonechild: Beatrice Plummer Maccabe. Mr. Maccabe was the first commander of the Massachusetts division of Sons of Vet- erans ; president of the Noddle Island Antiquarian Association ; first vice-presi- dent of the National Editorial Association of the United States ; secretary of the Republican Club ; vice-president of the