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Crown Point and St. John. He returned to the army after liis graduation, was appointed brigatle- niajor, and had his iiorse shot under him at the battle of White Plains, N.Y. He was promoted captain under Col. W. R. Lee, in 1777 ; became aide to General Heath in May, 1778, and adjutant- general of the eastern department in 1779, and was stationed on thd Hudson River until the end of the war. He was married, Jan. 10, 1782, to Mary, daugliter of Jolin Wanton of Newport, R.I. He practised law in Newi)ort, R.L, 1782- 1808 ; and was chief justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island, 1802-16. He built the Lyman cotton mill in Providence, toward the close of Ills life. He was a member of the Hartford con- vention that met Dec. 15, 1814 ; and was presi- dent of the state Society of the Cincinnati. He died in North Providence, R.L, Oct. 16, 1830.

LYMAN, David Belden, missionary, was born in New Hartford, Conn., July 28, 1803; son of David and Rhoda (Belden) Lyman : grandson of David and Mary (Brown) Lyman, and a descend- ant of Richard Lyman, 1631. He was graduated from Williams college in 1828 and from the An- dover Theological seminary in 1831 ; and was ordained as a missionary of the A.B.C.F.M. at Hanover, N.H., Oct. 12, 1831. He was married Nov. 8, 1831, to Sarah Joiner of Royalton, Vt,, and on November 26 they sailed from New Bed- ford. Mass., with a large reinforcement for the Sandwich Islands. The company arrived at Honolulu, May 17, 1832, after a passage of 172 days. Mr. Lyman and his wife were subse- quently assigned to the station at Hilo, one of the remotest of the group. He was placed in charge of the church at Hilo and its outlying missions where he labored with success for sev- eral years. UiK)n the arrival of Titus and Fidelia Coan in 1836, he turned over his mission to Mr. Coan, and with tlie assistance of his wife, estab- lished an academy for young men, the pupils cultivating a farm and thus supplying the school with food. In 1873 Mr. Lyman retired from active work in tlie school. He died in Hilo, Hawaii, Oct. 4, 1884, and his wife Dec. 6, 1885.

LYMAN, Henry Munson, physician, was born in Hilo, Hawaiian Islands, Nov. 26, 1835 ; son of David Belden and Sarah (Joiner) Lyman. He was graduated from Williams college, A.B., 1858, A.M., 1861, and from the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons in New York city in I86I. He was house surgeon at Bellevue hospital, New York city, 1861-62, enlisted in the Union army as acting assistant surgeon of volunteers, and served in military hospitals at Nashville, Tenn., until 1863. when he resigned and established him- self in practice at Chicago, 111. He was professor of chemistry in Rush Medical college, Chicago, 1870-75 ; professor of physiology and nervous

diseases, 1875-90, and professor of the principles and practice of medicine, 1890-97, and senior dean of the faculty, 1897. He also filled the chair of the theor}' and practice of medicine in the Chicago Woman's Medical college. He is the author of : Artificial Ancesthesia and AncEsthet- ic8 (1881); /nsomwia (1885); A Text-Book of the Practice of Medicine (1892).

LYHAN, Joseph, representative, was born in Lyons, ilich., Sept. 13, 1840. He entered Iowa college, but upon the outbreak of the civil war he enlisted as regimental clerk in the 4th Iowa cavalrj'. He was transferred to the 29th Iowa infantry and served as adjutant, 1862-65; was aide-de-camp and inspector-general on the staff of Gen. Samuel A. Rice in 1864 ; was i)romoted major of the 29th Iowa infantry, Feb, 21, 1865, and served till Aug. 10, 1865, and was aide-de-camp and acting assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Maj-Gen. Frederick Steele from Feb. 1, 1865, until he was mustered out of service. He was graduated from the law department of the State University of Iowa in 1866 and practised law at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was deputy collector of internal revenue, 1867-70 ; circuit judge of the 13th judicial district from Jan. 1 till Dec. 31, 1884, and was a Republican representative in the 49th and 50th congresses. 1885-89. He died at Council Bluffs. Iowa, July 9, 1890.

LYMAN, Joseph, artist, was born in Ravenna, Ohio, July 26, 1843 ; son of Joseph and Mary (Clark) Lyman. He attended the high school at Cleveland, Ohio, and studied art in New York under John H. Dolph and Samuel Colman. He traveled in Europe, 1866-70 and in 1883. He first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1886, and was elected an associate of the academy the same year. His paintings include : Summer Night; Evening (1880); Perci Rock, Oulf of St. Laicrence (1881); Moonlight at Svnset on the Maim Coast {iSS2)', Waiting for the Tide (1883); Street in St. Augustine, Florida (1884); Under her ovm Fig-Tree (1885).

LYHAN, Joseph Bardwell, agricultural editor, was born in Cliester, Mass.. Oct. 6, 1829 ; son of Timothy and Experience (Bardwell) Lyman and grandson of Timothy and Dorothy (Kinnny) Ly- man. He was graduated from Yale in 1850 ; taught school in the south, 1850-53 ; was gradu- ated from the law department of the University of Louisiana, LL.B., 1856, and settled in practice in New Orleans. In March. 1863, he served as commissary in the Confederate army to avoid conscription, and in September of that year he joined his family in Boston, renfoving to New York in 1864 and thence in 1865 to Stamford. Conn., wliere he devoted himself to liorticulture and literary work. He removed to New York city and became agricultural editor of the World