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A SKETCH OF THE RECORD

OF THE DESCENDANTS OF

DANIEL LYMAN

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SALLY CLAPP

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EASTHAMPTON, MASS,

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PRIVATELY PUBLISHED FOR THE FAMILY

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PREFATORY NOTE

Nearly three hundred years ago Richard Lyman and

Roger Clapp came to Massachusetts. More than one hun¬

dred years ago their descendants, Daniel Lyman and Sally

Clapp, set up a home in Easthampton. The house which

they made a true home, begun in 1804, still stands and has

been in the possession of the Lymans ever since.

The descendants of that couple are now found in eighteen

states, Canada, Hawaii and the Philippines. To make these

descendants acquainted with each other, and with the record

of a notable family is the purpose of this little book. That

it may accomplish this purpose in good degree is the hope

of the compiler.

To tell the story seemed worth while. To tell it ade¬

quately would be difficult. Traits which may fairly be called

characteristics appear in all the families. They are not

money getters. Higher things have claimed their chief at¬

tention and effort. They have loved music and been pro¬

ficient in it. They have served the communities in which

they have lived with faithful service.

In educational work all along the line from elementary

school to university they have taken high rank among their

fellows. Phi Beta Kappa men and women, holders of the

Ph. D. degree, leaders in their classes have been found in

every one of the six branches of the family. They do not

all bear the Lyman name. There are other names on the

honor roll. But they all belong to the clan. They are all

descendants of Daniel Lyman and Sally Clapp. Their fath¬

ers or their grandfathers lived together in the old home,

looked daily upon the cliffs of Mt. Tom and the other en¬

circling hills. We are one in our honorable ancestry. From

the various states where these families live, from children

yet in the elementary schools, come reports that show they

are worthily carrying on, these children of the fourth gen¬

eration from Daniel Lyman.

No millionaires but ministers, missionaries home and for¬

eign, doctors, lawyers, editors, professors in colleges, au¬

thors, writers for the press, many teachers; lovers of nature

as shown by the mountain climbing record and not by that

alone; in the church, deacons and elders, Sunday School

workers, helpers in the missionary societies and in the other

societies for the betterment of the world. There are busi¬

ness men who have made the welfare of the community a

part of their business j farmers who have kept up with the

times and have occupied positions of trust in the church and

in their respective towns. You will read it in the story.

The name at the end of this note is not that of the author

of the sketch but of the compiler of what the various authors

have supplied. That none of you will see cause for criticism

is too much to hope. But the work has been done with love

for the task and a growing interest in it. Without the aid of

her brother, Rev. Payson W. Lyman, whose previous work,

as historian of the Lyman family, gave the needed experi¬

ence the book could not have appeared. Mrs. Theresa M.

Hill of Denver, and many others have given time and en¬

couragement to the undertaking. Would that Prof. William

D. Lyman and Mrs. Sarah Lyman Baldwin might have seen

the book in whose making they helped.

The compiler hopes that the expectations of those whose

kindly interest has been so helpful will be measurably ful¬

filled. She has a chart of all the Lyman and Clapp ances¬

tors back to the first in this country and will be glad to ad¬

vise anyone interested as to procuring one.

EUNICE ALMENA LYMAN.

THE ANCESTRAL HOME

DESCENDANTS OF DANIEL LYMAN 7

It is proposed in this booklet to recite in outline the record of the lives of Daniel Lyman and his wife, Sally Clapp, and their posterity.

Like every other person of the Lyman name in this coun¬ try, so far as the Lyman Genealogy shows, Daniel Lyman was descended from Richard Lyman of High Ongar, Essex, Co., England, and his wife, Sarah Osborne. With all their living children they came to this country in 1631 on the ship Lion, which, on the same voyage, brought John Eliot, who became the apostle to the Indians, and the wife and eldest son of Governor John Winthrop, who himself had come to this country previously.

Richard Lyman settled in Charlestown and, with his wife, joined the church in Roxbury, John Eliot pastor.

In 1635 Richard and family migrated in the party led by Rev. Thomas Hooker to Connecticut and settled in Hart¬ ford, of which place he was one of the original proprietors. No doubt he was one of the founders of the First Church in Hartford of which Hooker was pastor. He died in 1640 and his headstone may still be seen in the cemetery in the rear of the church edifice.

His family removed to Northampton, probably in 1655, where, in that year, his son Richard was chosen one of the selectmen.

The three sons of Richard: Richard, Robert and John, lived and died in Northampton. Robert had no male chil¬ dren who became heads of families, but fiom one of his daughters was descended Lyman Hall of Georgia, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Richard and John each had three sons who became pro¬ genitors of families. These six grandsons of the first Richard are the heads of the six divisions of the Lyman family, as used in the Lyman Genealogy.

Lieut. John Lyman was in command of the Northampton soldiers in the famous Falls Fight at Turner’s Falls at which King Philip, the great Indian warrior, met his final defeat.

The descent to Daniel Lyman from the first Richard is as follows:

Richard Lyman and Sarah Osborne

Lt. John and Dorcas Plumb

Benjamin and Thankful Pomeroy

Benjamin and Mary Mosely

Lemuel and Lydia Clark

8 DESCENDANTS OF DANIEL LYMAN

Benjamin the 1st died in Northampton in the 50th year of his age. He was an extensive farmer and an enterprising and influential man.

His son, Benjamin, removed to Easthampton, of which town he was one of the original settlers. He retained his connection with the church in Northampton, under the pastorate of the famous theologian, Jonathan Edwards, “greatest of the sons of men” and was one of the nineteen members who voted to retain him as pastor at the time of the successful opposition to him. He had three sons whose lives were spent in Easthampton: Benjamin, Lemuel, and Capt. David.

Lemuel was a soldier in the expedition of Sir William Johnson against Crown Point and was wounded in the “Bloody Morning Scout” at the head of Lake George near Fort William Henry. He was a member of the board of selectmen of Easthampton for seven years and one of the leaders in the establishment of the first church in East¬ hampton, a man of native energy of character, of great physical strength, and quick to perceive the best method of action in a moment of danger. He was the father of six sons all of whom reared families in Easthampton, namely: Lemuel, Justus, Ahira, Sylvester, Daniel and Elihu. It is of the posterity of Daniel that this book speaks.

Sally Clapp, wife of Daniel Lyman, the loved and honored mother of the family, was descended from Capt. Roger Clapp and his wife, Joanna Ford, by the following line of descent:

Capt. Roger Clapp and Joanna Ford Elder Preserved Clapp and Sarah Newberry Roger Clapp and Elizabeth Bartlett Major Jonathan Clapp and Submit Strong Quartermaster Benjamin Clapp and Phebe Boynton

Capt. Roger Clapp came to this country in 1630 and, with others of the company, settled in Dorchester. These were the first white settlers in Boston. Captain Roger left as a legacy to his children and friends some account of the remarkable Providence of God in bringing him to this coun¬ try. His story is quoted in Winsor’s Memorial history of Boston. It is embodied in the Clapp Genealogy and in Lyman’s history of Easthampton.

In August 1665 the General Court appointed him Captain of the Castle, the principal fortress of the province, which office he held for twenty-one years. He and his wife lived together fifty-seven years, both universally respected and

DECENDANTS OF DANIEL LYMAN 9

beloved. He is buried in the King’s Chapel Burying Ground

in the heart of Boston. They had fourteen children of

whom two daughters and four sons were married and

reared families.

One of the sons, Preserved, moved to Northampton.

There he became a useful citizen, a captain of the town, a

Representative in the General Court, and a ruling Elder

in the church.

He had seven children who arrived at years of maturity.

Of these Roger was father of Major Jonathan, one of the

first settlers in Easthampton, a man of keen foresight and

great energy, very prominent in the early history of the

town, the ancestor of nearly all the Clapp families there resi¬

dent. He was commissioned as Second Major in the 2nd

Hampshire Militia Regiment, Seth Pomeroy, Colonel. The

Massachusetts Records chronicle him as a soldier in the

Revolutionary War. His youngest son, Quartermaster

Benjamin, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war for some

time. Benjamin Clapp died in 1815 at the age of 77. His

wife, Phebe Boynton Clapp, survived him 32 years dying at

the advanced age of 97 years. They had five sons and

eight daughters, all of whom lived to be upwards of sixty

years old. All were married and reared families. The

oldest, Rachel, married Nathaniel Edwards of Northampton,

and lived to be more than one hundred years old. Sally

married Daniel Lyman and thus became the progenitor of

this line.

Payson W. Lyman, Sally Clapp Lyman’s oldest grandson

distinctly remembers his great grandmother Clapp. He has

thus seen six generations of the Clapp line.


SALLY CLAPP LYMAN DANIEL LYMAN.

DANIEL LYMAN, the head of this line, was born Sept.

3, 1777. His wife, SALLY CLAPP, was born Nov. 15,

1780. They were married Dec. 30, 1806 and settled on the

farm which he had acquired and in the dwelling which he

had built in that section of Easthampton known as Park Hill,

situated in the west part of the town. The residence is that

now occupied by his grandson Henry L. Lyman, and before

him by his father, Dea. Lauren D. Lyman. A picture of the

house as it now stands after two successive enlargements

is shown in this book. The portraits of Daniel Lyman and

his wife are copies of oil portraits painted by Sylvester Ly¬

man, a nephew of Daniel Lyman, son of his brother Syl¬

vester. This was before the discovery of photography.

As we have seen, these two were children of a godly

ancestry of several generations and they were both true

to their Christian inheritance and they trained their family

in the principles of the word of God as they understood

its teaching. It was a household of prayer, of faith, and

of Christian consecration. Of Daniel Lyman the family

genealogy savs: “He was a man of more than ordinary

religious feeling, a devoted friend and supporter of the in¬

stitutions of religion, and a pillar in the prayer meetings

of the church and neighborhood/’


Mrs. Sally Clapp Lyman died Jan. 9, 1844. Daniel Ly¬

man subsequently married Mrs. Mary Taylor Searle, the

widow of Eggleston Searle of Southampton, who, after the

death of Daniel Lyman, Sept. 23, 1853, went to live with

one of her sons, Dea. Myron E. Searle of Westfield, Mass.,

where she died.

The children of this family were:

Daniel Franklin, b. Aug. 28, 1809, d. Sept. 19, 1868

Josiah, b. Oct. 9, 1811, d. Oct. 7, 1889

Addison, b. Dec. 3, 1813, d. May 7, 1902

Horace, b. Nov. 16, 1815, d. March 31, 1887

Sarah Boynton, b. Feb. 24, 1818, d. Nov. 24, 1844

Lauren Dwight, b. June 20, 1820, d. Oct. 21, 1902

James Hervey, b. Nov. 13, 1822, d. Jan. 7, 1893

Daniel Lyman died Sept. 23, 1853. After his death his

farm was divided between his sons, Daniel F. and Lauren D.,

they having bought the rights in the estate of their brother,

James H. and of the widow.

The first enlargement of the dwelling was made to pro¬

vide family quarters for the eldest son, Daniel Franklin,

upon his marriage, the second at the time of the marriage

of the present occupant, Henry L. Lyman.

In this family of six sons there was only one daughter, the

fifth child. This daughter, Sarah Boynton, grew up in

the home circle, beloved of her parents and brothers. She

was never rugged in health and gradually declined in

physical vigor until her strength failed altogether and she

passed away in her 27th year, after she had lived to wel¬

come the two eldest sons of her eldest brother, born under

the same roof.


DANIEL F. LYMAN AND DESCENDANTS

DANIEL FRANKLIN LYMAN

DANIEL FRANKLIN LYMAN, eldest son of Daniel,

born Aug. 28, 1809, married Eunice Strong Ferry, daughter

of Asa Ferry of Easthampton, born June 10, 1813. They

were married Dec. 24, 1840. She had. been a school teacher

in various parts of the town, including the west district,

in which she afterwards came to make her home. One of

her pupils in that school, afterwards a teacher there. Miss

Elvira Hannum, pointed out to her pupil, Payson W. Ly¬

man, the distinct traces of the motto which his mother had

written in chalk on the wooden walls of the schoolroom:

“Count that day lost

W hose low descending sun

Views from thy hand,

No worthy action done.”

This mother’s married life was brief. She died Sept. 27,

1846, leaving three children, the youngest a new born babe.

Mr. Lyman married Almena Smith, daughter of Rufus

Smith of W orthington, Mass., Oct. 7, 1847. She was born

Oct. 3, 1810. This family occupied a part of the ancestral

residence till after the birth of the first child of the second

marriage in 1848, then removing to a house built on a part of

the farm where two other children were born.

Here he reared his family and here he died, Sept. 19, 1868.


He was a man of sterling character, universally respected, a pillar in the church, a pastor’s right hand man, constant in attendance at church, Sunday school, and prayer meet¬ ings, m which he was ever a helper. As to this we may quote the testimony of his pastor, “Few words and fitly chosen. He had something to say, something to the point and he said it and sat down. It has never fallen to me to meet a man more thoroughly honest. Would you see his monument, look around,” said his pastor at his funeral, held in the church, referring specially to his' then recent successful effort to raise money for the repair and the decoration of the church, after its removal from its original site to the place where it still stands, though no longer used as a church. This special service to the church was in keeping with his stead¬ fast interest in its maintenance and growth. Twenty-five years after his death, a man was urging the claims of Chris¬ tian profession and service upon a lifelong resident of the town. He was met with the old argument of Christian incon¬ sistencies, “Didn’t you ever know a real Christian?” he was asked, “Yes, I did” was the reply, “I knew Franklin Lyman.”

In this family, there were two mothers, friends of each other in early' womanhood. Each had three children and the second wife mothered the children of her friend with as great tenderness and discretion as she did her own. To this quality in her life, at her funeral, after a score of years in widowhood, the same pastor bore witness, “She car¬ ried herself with such wisdom, such discretion, and loving faithfulness as barred out all thought of invidious dis¬ crimination and distinction. Place of eminent delicacy, and difficult always, and in this instance so nobly filled.”

Children:

Payson Williston, b. Feb. 28, 1842

Daniel Watson, b. Nov. 2, 1843, d. June 14, 1863

Alfred Ferry, b. Sept. 27, 1846, d. Oct. 3, 1868

Horace Smith, b. Oct. 21, 1848, d. Dec. 28, 1908

Eunice Alrnena, b. Oct. 4, 1850

Amelia Sophia, b. Nov. 21, 1853, d. May 30, 1859


REV. PAYSON W. LYMAN

PAYSON WILLIS TON LYMAN, eldest grandchild of Daniel and Sally, was born under their roof February 28, 1842; joined the Congregational Church in Easthampton, September 10, 1854; was graduated from Williston Sem¬ inary in the class of 1863; from Amherst College with Phi Beta Kappa rank in 1867; from Union Theological Sem¬ inary in 1870 ; was ordained and installed pastor. of the Congregational church in Belchertown, Mass., May 10, 1871, from which he was dismissed June 2, 1887.

He was a member of the State Legislature in 1888, serving on the Committees on Education and on Parishes and Religious Societies.

He was called to the pastorate of the Fowler Congrega¬ tional Church in Fall River, Mass., over which he was in¬ stalled February 2, 1889. This charge he resigned after 25 years service and was dismissed April 15, 1914.

August 6, 1873, he married Caroline Eliza Root, daugh¬ ter of Dea. Harrison Root of Belchertown. To them were born four children:

Annie Amelia, b. Sept. 29, 1874, d. February 14, 1917

Harrison Franklin, b. Nov. 2, 1877

Bertha Holland, b. June 17, 1879, d. May 19, 1909

Elihu Root, b. Nov. 6, 1880

Mrs. Lyman was a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, and a teacher till her marriage. She was a faithful wife, a wise and loving mother, everywhere a leader, a most effec¬ tive co-worker with her husband in both his long pastorates, tenderly loved wherever known.


Her death, April 2, 1907, called forth many warm trib¬ utes as to her personal worth and rare charm of character. Rev. Dr. W. W. Adams said at her funeral, “I have never known a fairer Christian womanhood.”

Of her, Dr. A. J. Lyman said in the Congregationalist: “Surely among the fairest and noblest of the daughters of Christian New England was this gracious lady, as lovely in feature as she was radiant in spirit. She had inherited from an ancestry, which combined intellectual buoyancy and sagacity with Christian firmness and fidelity, a disposi¬ tion of singular charm, uniting a certain gayety of kindli¬ ness with rare promptness and wisdom of practical judg¬ ment, as well as constancy on the higher levels of devotion and faith.”

Payson W. Lyman has written for the press from his very early years. While yet in college, he wrote the “His¬ tory of Easthampton” which appeared first in the “Hamp¬ shire Gazette” and later in book form. At the Centennial of the National Independence in 1876 he gave the historical address at the Easthampton celebration supplementing its publication with the history of the town for the previous ten years. During most of his 25 years pastorate in Fall River and since its close he has written the major portion of the editorials of the Fall River Daily News, probably 15,000 columns in all lines of public discussion.

He was a member of the School Committee three years in Belchertown, nine years in Fall River ; has been a trus¬ tee of Monson Academy since 1882, being President of the Board since 1890; a trustee of the Clapp Memorial Library in Belchertown since its establishment; a corporate mem¬ ber of the American Board since 1888; for twenty years on the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts State Infirm¬ ary and the State Farm; scribe of the Taunton Association of Congregational ministers for twenty years; President of the Massachusetts Civic Alliance since 1915, twice Presi¬ dent of the Congregational Club in Fall River.

His published addresses are those given at the Cen¬ tennial of the First Church in Easthampton ; at the 150th anniversary of the incorporation of Belchertown; at the dissolution of the Fowler Church in Fall River ; on the character and career of General Grant; a memorial ad¬ dress on Dr. J. G. Holland and a sketch of the life of Rev. Dr. Elijah C. Bridgman. He gave an address on the “Ly¬ man Influence in old Hampshire” at the last Lyman gather-


ing in the City Hall, Springfield, and was then appointed historian of the family to succeed Dr. Lyman Coleman. He is still regarded as the historian of Easthampton and of Belchertown.

The councils of dismissal from his pastorates pro¬ nounced as the opinion of his brother ministers and the churches he had served that he had been “a faithful pastor and a helpful friend,” “a wise and loyal champion of every cause that makes for righteousness in the city and the state.”

At eighty-one he still preaches occasionally and writes the leading editorials of the Fall River Daily News of which he has been the chief editorial writer for more than thirty years.

Among letters of greeting on the celebration of the 80th anniversary of his birth was one from the Vice Presi¬ dent of the United States, Calvin Coolidge, who said: “I want to join with your many friends in Massachusetts in extending to you my best wishes on your 80th birthday. Fall River, and the State at large, owes much to you, and your life has been an example of faithful service and of high ideals.”

The Governor of Massachusetts, Channing H. Cox, wrote: “It must be a tremendous satisfaction to you to look back over such a long number of years and be permitted to realize that you have filled them with useful service to your fellow men and that you have given to the world some splendid children who are worthily doing their part.”

That day was also the birthday of Governor Cox. Annie Amelia Lyman, daughter of Rev. P. W., was

graduated from the Durfee High School in Fall River in 1892 and from Mt. Holyoke College in 1896 with high stand¬ ing in scholarship in both institutions. For nearly ten years she taught in the public schools of Fall River as Principal’s Assistant and last as Normal Instructor in the Training- School.

In 1907 she was found to have tuberculosis. After five years at home, following the outdoor regime, a home was made for her near the Sharon Sanitarium under expert- medical care and the faithful and loving home care of her mother’s sister, Miss Susan B. Root, her brother Harri¬ son sharing and helping to make the home. She made a brave and cheerful fight against the dread disease for ten years, with absolute fidelity to the instructions of the skilled physicians in charge. She died on February 14, 1917.


From early life till laid aside she had been a zealous worker in all church activities. She was a scholar of high rank, a conscientious teacher, unusually successful in her work, as a woman unselfish, full of faith and love for the kingdom of God. “As saintly a person as I ever knew,” wrote a college classmate, “her life a constant inspiration to me and to her other friends.”

Harrison Franklin Lyman, son of Rev. P. W., was graduated from the Durfee High School in 1893, from Amherst College with Phi Beta Kappa rank in 1898. He taught in a boys’ school in Stamford, Conn., for three years. He was graduated, cum laude, from the Harvard Law School in 1904. While there he was on the edi¬ torial staff of the Harvard Law Review. He began the practice of law with the Boston firm of Brandeis, Dunbar, and Nutter. Since 1907 he has been connected with, and, since 1910 a member of the Boston firm of Fish, Richardson, and Neave. His special work is in patent law, dealing with the infringement of patents.

He married Alice Webster Wellington of Boston, daugh¬ ter of Frederic A. Wellington, August 1, 1917. She was graduated from Smith College in 1905. She was secretary of the Smith College Relief Unit work in devastated France during the war.

Children: Alice, born Judy 18, 1918 Harrison Franklin, Jr., born November 26, 1920 Their home is now in Winchester, Mass.

Bertha Holland Lyman, daughter of Rev. P. W., was graduated from the Durfee High School in 1896, from Mt. Holyoke College in 1901. In both school and college she maintained a high standing- in scholarship. Throughout her school and college courses she studied music being pro¬ ficient in both instrumental and vocal music.

Like her mother and sister, she was a devoted .church and Sunday school worker, whenever at home.

On September 10, 1907, she was married to Dr. Percy Loring Reynolds, a graduate of the Y. M. C. A. Training School in Springfield, Mass., and of the Medical School of the University of Georgia. Dr. Reynolds was physical di¬ rector at the University of Maine at Orono for a year after their marriage and then accepted a similar position at the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst. While resident in Amherst Mrs. Reynolds died in childbirth May 19, 1909, and her son died with her. Hers was a sensitive


and loving spirit, domestic in tastes, though a successful teacher in Mrs. Mead's school for girls in Norwalk, Conn., for live years. She was qualified to make a happy home and her early death, too early as it seemed, was a blasting of bright hopes, though we know that she was also fitted for an inheritance among the saints in light.

Dr. Reynolds is now Physical Director in a New York city high school.

Elihu Root Lyman, son of Rev. P. W., was graduated with high rank from Durfee High School, Fall River, in 1898, from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1902, where he had taken the course of Mechanical Engineering. He was employed successively by the Buffalo Forge Company of Buffalo, New York; by the U. S. Radiator Company, Detroit, Michigan; and by the Dexter Folder Company, Pearl River, N. Y.

While he was at Pearl River the war came on, and his tender of service to the Government was accepted. He was given a commission as Captain and was sent to organ¬ ize the ordnance depot at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma. His work there led to his appointment as Inspector of ordnance schools and depots in most of the states west of the Missis¬ sippi River. He was later made Major and served a short time as division ordnance officer at Camp Jackson, Colum¬ bia, S. C. and at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. In Sep¬ tember, 1918, he was ordered to France and was made ord¬ nance officer of a division in active service. The armistice was signed before he had taken over the division, which was soon sent home, but he was retained for special service for several months. After coming home he was made a mem¬ ber of the Claims Board of the Boston District Ordnance Office.

He resigned his commission in 1920 and is now the President of the Massachusetts Gear Company, with plant at Woburn, Mass. His home is in Dedham, Mass.

June 1, 1909, he married Sarah Elizabeth Hargraves of Fall River, daughter of John W. Hargraves.

Children:

Caroline Root, born February 4, 1912

John Hargraves, born July 21, 1920


DANIEL W. LYMAN, son of Daniel F., was plan¬ ning to make the ministry his life work. He showed marked ability in the early stages of his education.

But when the Civil War broke out, he felt that to him the voice of country was the voice of God. Upon a Chris¬ tian young man not forbidden by some higher duty, its claims were then paramount. So he was among the first to enlist in the 52nd regiment though not yet nineteen years old.

His faithful performance of a soldier’s duty, his un¬ faltering trust in God were well known to his comrades and to his friends. He wrote from the front regularly to the Hampshire Gazette, the home paper.

His service was in Louisiana. When the attack on Port Hudson was planned he was in a convalescent camp in New Orleans. The officer examining those in the camp did not order him to the front but allowed him to go on his expressed wish. So going, he met his death shortly after in the attack on the fortification. He was in a com¬ pany ordered forward as skirmishers. An enemy’s bullet struck him in the head killing him instantly. The cap¬ tain of his. company wrote to his father: “Gentle hands placed him in his grave, and covered the earth over him near the spot where he fell, though obliged to wait till after dark and to be exposed to a storrn of bullets. This tender tribute of affection is his monument and though his dust may not make the violets of his native hills, it will not be amiss, on the morning of his resurrec¬ tion, that his body should arise from the spot, where the latest duties of his life were so faithfully concluded.” A “Testament and Psalms” was taken from his pocket after he fell and Ps. 56:11, “In God have I put my trust, I will not fear what man can do unto me,” with other verses of the psalm, was marked with the date, June 14, 1863, the day of his death.

Nine of the name of Lyman enlisted in the Union armies from Easthampton, four of whom died from disease or fell in battle. Daniel was the only one of the descend¬ ants of Daniel Lyman to enter the army in the Civil War.

ALFRED FERRY LYMAN, whose mother died on the day of his birth, lived to be twenty-two years of age, dying of typhoid fever as his father had died, just before him.

He had started a Sunday school in a little factory settle-


ment remote from church, superintending the school and leading its singing. That short service of his made a lasting- impression for good upon some lives, one of these after¬ wards a Christian minister. He died October 3, 1868.

HORACE SMITH LYMAN, son of Daniel F., born October 21, 1848, married Esther M. Graves, Nov. 30, 1871, a wise and loving wife and mother.

She was b. Jan. 29, 1852, d. Sept. 12, 1920.

Children:

Alice Graves, b. March 11, 1874

Alfred Newton, b. Aug. 20, 1875

Ernest Nelson, b. July 12, 1877

After the death of his father, Horace S. Lyman staid on the home farm till 1886. In that year the farm was sold. For ten years he lived in various places, Northampton, Mass., Bristol, Harwinton, New Britain, Conn. Wherever he went he became useful in church and Sunday school, usually teaching classes in the Sunday school.

In these days when men claim that Sunday should be looked upon as largely a day of recreation for men who work from 48 to 54 hours a week we look back to the time when Horace Lyman worked in New Britain and else¬ where from seven o’clock to six and later, and note that he was a regular attendant at church and Sunday school, never once taking a Sunday off for recreation. He was steward of Atlanta University in the year 1892-93. In 1896 he purchased a farm in Talcottville, Conn., where he lived till his death and where his sons now live carrying on the dairy business their father began.

He was a man of strong convictions, of ardent feeling, faithful to family, church and town. He was a ready speaker, a writer at times in the county paper. He was a member and a frequent speaker in an Easthampton debating club, usually speaking on the side he favored. He had at one time, planned to speak on the other side bringing out some neglected arguments. Before he rose he heard be¬ hind him, “I wonder which side Mr. Lyman will take.” The answer came, “He will take the side he believes in, you can depend on that.” And he did. His death was on December 28, 1908.

Alice Graves Lyman, daughter of Horace S., mar¬ ried Aaron W. Hall of Kensington, Conn., November 17, 1897. She was graduated from the New Britain high


school and spent one year in Washburn College, Topeka,

Kansas. She taught in Harwinton, Bristol, and Talcott-

ville, Conn.

Children:

1 Margaret Lyman, b. Oct. 20, 1899, d. June 24, 1902

2. Robert Benson, born Nov. 30, 1900. He was gradu¬

ated from New Britain high school in 1917, and from Wor¬

cester Polytechnic Institute in 1922.

3. Lyman Everett, b. Sept. 27, 1902. Educated in

New Britain high school and Storrs Agricultural College.

4. Alice Jeannette, b. Dec. 22, 1903, d. Aug. 3, 1904.

5. Marion Esther, b. July 23, 1905, was graduated

from New Britain high school, 1922, is now taking a college

course at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine.

6. Louise Antoinette, b. March 23, 1908. She now is

in New Britain high school.

7. Ellen Winifred, b. Nov. 14, 1909, d. Nov. 15, 1909.

8. Alfred Winchester, b. Nov. 1, 1911

9. Ernest Franklin, b. Dec. 13, 1912

Mrs. Hall, her husband, and three older children are

members of the Congregational church in Kensington. She

was president and treasurer of the Home Missionary So¬

ciety in her church for some years.

Mr. Hall is in the dairy business in New Britain, Conn.

Their home is in Kensington.

Alfred Newton Lyman, son of Horace S., attended the

New Britain high school, and for a time, studied law, but

trouble with eyes forbade the completion of the course.

He taught school, tried railroading and clerking, but finally

settled down on the farm at Talcottville where he now re¬

sides. He married Florence Rosamond Dart, Dec. 12. 1900.

He has served as school committee.

Children:

1. James Horace, b. x\pril 29, 1902, was graduated from

the Rockville high school in 1918, is now with his father in

the dairy business.


2. Ralph Barber, b. Dec. 5, 1904, was graduated at

Rockville high school, 1922. Now in Storrs Agricultural

College.

3. Alfred Newton, b. Feb. 8, 1908, d. Feb. 8. 1908.

4. Ruth Emeline, b. April 29, 1909, d. Feb. 28, 1910

5. Bertha Eunice, b. April 29, 1909, d. Feb. 24, 1910

6. Francis Dart, b. April 2, 1911

7. Faith Rosamond, b. Sept. 24, 1913

He and his wife, with their two older children, are

members of the Congregational church in Talcottville.

Ernest Nelson Lyman, son of Horace S., has been with

his father and brother in the dairy business. He is a mem¬

ber of the Congregational church in Talcottville. He is

deeply interested in all public matters. He is Justice of the

Peace in Vernon, Conn.

He married May Brockett, Aug. 31, 1911.


EUNICE ALMENA LYMAN

EUNICE ALMENA LYMAN, daughter of Daniel F., was graduated from Mt. Holyoke Seminary in 1873, did graduate work at Yale College in 1892-93 and took the degree of A. B. from Mt. Holyoke College in 1895. She taught in Northampton, Easthampton and Granby, Mass., beginning her teaching work before she was 16.

She later taught in Circleville, Ohio, 1874-78, Topeka, Kansas high school, 1878-83. Washburn College, Topeka, 1883-1892. B. M. C. Durfee high school, Fall River, Mass., 1894-95, 1900-16. From 1895-1900 she taught in a high school for Colonial girls in Worcester, Cape Colony, South Africa. The school was a government school but under the control of the Dutch Reformed Church. The boarding department was modeled after Mt. Holyoke.

The last nine months of the work in South Africa was during the Boer War. In the absence of the principal she was acting principal. Boer and Briton, in race and sym¬ pathy met in the class room and at table. The fathers and brothers of some were in British service, those of others in the Boer army, or held as traitors in prison camps. Let it be said to the credit of those English, Scotch, Dutch and German girls that they did live in peace to a very remark¬ able degree.

Returning to America in 1900, she taught history in the Fall River high school till 1916 when she retired and has since had her home with her brother, Rev. Payson W. Lyman, whose natural home makers have been for years in the eternal home.


Like so many other members of the Lyman family, she has been in church work all her mature years. She was a Sunday school teacher for more than fifty years, some¬ times of a mission school as well as of the regular school.

She was among the founders of Y. W. C. A. work in Kansas, being chairman of the first State Executive Com¬ mittee. She is Corresponding Secretary of the Board, of Managers of the Children’s Home of Fall River, a member of the Fall River W. C. T. U. and of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Congregational churches of Fall River, of which she was at one time the President. She is the author of this Lyman Sketch.

The first break among the children of Daniel F. Lyman was the death of the youngest, AMELIA SOPHIA, a child of great promise, who died of peritonitis, following scarlet fever, May 30, 1859. Her picture appears with that of her father, that being the only picture of him ever taken.


JOSIAH LYMAN AND DESCENDANTS

REV. JOSIAH LYMAN

REV. JOSIAH LYMAN, son of Daniel, born Oct. 9, 1811, was graduated from Williams College in 1836, took charge oLan English and classical school in Canaan, N. Y. for two years. He taught also at Ithaca, N. Y. and in his native town. He studied theology at Auburn and was licensed to preach in 1843. After this he taught school in Bristol, Conn., where the blessing of God upon his efforts for the spiritual good of his pupils was such as to lead him to decide to make teaching the business of his life. He taught at Williston, Vt., and at Lenox, Mass. Ill health compelled him to give up sedentary pursuits. His home was in Lenox for many years. Here he followed the business of civil engineering. He made a reflecting telescope which, at that time, was the largest and admittedly the best of its kind ever made in this country.

May 22, 1844, he married Mary Bingham, daughter of Reuben Bingham, Cornwall, Vermont. She was born Sep¬ tember 22, 1819.

Children: Albert Josiah, b. Dec. 24, 1845, d. Aug. 22, 1915. Sarah Bingham, b. Jan. 17, 1848, d. Jan. 14, 1916. After the Lenox home was given up, he and his wife

at length went back to the ancestral home, then occupied by his brother, Dea. Lauren D. Lyman. Here he per¬ fected a reflector for a telescope which after his death, was given to Amherst College and has been used by Prof. David Todd in his investigations of eclipses all over the


world. Like all his brothers, Josiah Lyman was a devoted disciple of Christ, an ardent lover of his country, in¬ terested in all efforts for world betterment. The six broth¬ ers were Whigs in politics, then Republicans.

It is told of the oldest brother that in the time of the Free Soil schism he was asked if he could not unite with that party in the election of some good man. He pondered, “I should want he should be a Whig,” was his answer. So with Rev. Josiah Lyman. The New York Tribune was his political Bible, free trade was arrant heresy.

The compiler of these sketches well remembers his last words to her, spoken as he was about to go up the old stairs to the front room in the old red house. They should be given here to those who, like her, are teachers. “Eunice, I want you to remember that yours is a glorious profes¬ sion.” That was about a month before his death. Here, in the old home he died October 7, 1889.

His death preceded that of his loved and lovely wife by two years. She died Nov. 12, 1891.


REV. ALBERT J. LYMAN

ALBERT JOSIAH LYMAN, son of Josiah, was born in Williston, Vermont, Dec. 24, 1845; reared in Lenox, Mass., a district school teacher at fifteen; licensed to preach at nineteen*; a student at Williston Seminary in the class of 1863; a student in Chicago Theological Seminary 1865-66; was graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 1868; a resident licentiate in Yale Theological Seminary 1868-69; pastor of the First Congregational Church in Milford, Ct., 1869-73; and of the South Congregational Church in Brook¬ lyn, N. Y., 1874-1915, more than forty years. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Amherst College in 1891.

June 1, 1870, he married Ella Stevens, daughter of Phinehas Stevens of Brooklyn, who was a devoted wife and helper in his pastorates till her death in 1893. June 26, 1902, he was married to Elizabeth Hills, a prominent edu¬ cator of Philadelphia, who wrought with him faithfully and who survives him.

After a long illness he died August 22, 1915.

As appears from this outline nearly the whole of Dr. Lyman’s public life was spent in Brooklyn.

His published works are: Two volumes of lectures in Theological Seminaries, “Preaching in the New Age,” and “The Christian Pastor in the New Age,” “A Plain Man’s Working View of Biblical Inspiration,” “Underneath Are the Everlasting Arms,” and “The Three Greatest Maxims in the World.”


Dr. Lyman was a great preacher, as witness not only the sermons and addresses above noted but many sermons at colleges and universities where he was a general favorite.

He was a great lover of nature in its various manifesta¬ tions, especially in its grander forms. He had climbed most of the great mountain peaks of New England, and had made the ascent of Mont Blanc. He was a great trav¬ eler. He had crossed the Atlantic many times, had visited Alaska, had seen the midnight sun in Norway, and finally had made a trip round the world.

His genius for friendship was extraordinary. His per¬ ception of the condition and needs of those who sought his counsel was acute and accurate. A memorial tablet erected in the church to which he ministered so long bears this characterization: “Lover of men of every rank, and race, and creed; champion of the right; seeker after truth; be¬ liever in the reality of the spiritual; wise counselor of many, brave in meeting every intellectual and moral challenge. Distinguished for clarity of vision, gentleness of spirit and Christlike compassion. This beloved minister won the answering loyalty of his people, the reverence of his breth¬ ren in the ministry, the honor of his fellow citizens.”

Of his life calling he himself said in his 25th anniver¬ sary sermon: ‘‘The work of my vocation is increasingly a joy and passion to me as life stretches itself toward the later goals. It is meat and drink and music and singing to me. To express in the best words and in the manliest life pos¬ sible the good news of Christ’s gospel and ideal for men— what more thrilling joy than this?”

We quote from published testimonials:

Dr. Lyman’s faculty of conception and expression were rare in the extreme. In rhetorical grace he was almost unequalled. He was a master of lucid and epigrammatic and incisive speech. His sympathies were profound, and his perceptions acute. Few men have ever equalled him in pastoral power. He had the hearts of all his people to the last. And he was sought as a confidential adviser by many outside, as well as within his parish. In some crises of the denomination he played the role of mediator, being trusted almost equally by both sides.

He refused frequent opportunities to take the most important pastorates. He was on terms of intimate friend¬ ship with Henry Ward Beecher and Richard S. Storrs dur-


ing the later life of those masters of pulpit address. He succeeded the latter as president of the Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Science. Though he refused to leave his Brook¬ lyn pastorate, Dr. Lyman rendered important services to the denomination. He was much sought after as a college preacher. He was the preacher at the Worcester meeting of the American Board, at the time of its greatest crisis, and of the Congregational National Council at Portland, Oregon. Had he not peremptorily refused the consideration of his name he probably might have been chosen president of the American Board at one time. He gave courses of lectures on preaching at Hartford Theological Seminar)', and at Bangor Theological Seminary, which lectures were brought out in two volumes. He was the one called upon to voice the thanks of the delegates at the Kansas City meeting of the National Council, when the vote was taken adopting the new order of things over which there had been years of discussion. The call was impromptu, but those who heard that short prayer felt that they had shared one of the most signal experiences in the history of the denomi¬ nation.


MRS. FRITZ W. BALDWIN

SARAH BINGHAM LYMAN, daughter of Josiah was married on June 27, 1877, to Fritz Walter Baldwin, then a teacher in the Lenox high school. He was a gradu¬ ate of Bates College of which he was a trustee for many years. After teaching several years he entered the ministry. His pastorates were in Granby, Mass., Chelsea, Mass., and in Trinity Church, East Orange, New Jersey. This pastor¬ ate he resigned in 1906, becoming pastor emeritus. For some years the home was in Acworth, N. H., later in East Northfield, Mass., where he died Aug. 31, 1921. Dr. Bald¬ win was an able and acceptable preacher and a clear thinker. He would have continued longer in the pastorate but for the handicap of severe deafness. He entered heartily into his connection with the Lyman family as one of their fra¬ ternity. He was often at the old homestead where Mrs. Baldwin’s parents spent much of the closing part of their lives. Thus his family came to be familiarly known there. Mrs. Baldwin was in all places a minister’s wife of the best type, a devoted mother, a faithful friend. She died at Montclair, New Jersey, Jan. 14, 1916, from pneumonia.

Mr. Baldwin was married June 22, 1918, to Carolyn Frances Davis.

Children of the first marriage: Alice Mary, b. Jan. 24, 1879 Sarah Lilian, b. April 28, 1881 Harold Lyman, b. Sept. 12, 1882 Fritz Walter, Jr., b. Jan. 14, 1884 Grace Elaine, b. March 19, 1890


Alice Mary Baldwin took the degree of A. B. from Cornell in 1900. Had scholarship in history and took the degree of A. M. in 1902. In 1901-02 she was Assistant to Professor Stephens. In 1902 she had a traveling fellow¬ ship in history from the Woman’s Educational Association in Boston. Study and travel in Europe 1902-03. Graduate Study at Columbia, 1903-04; Dean of Women and Instruc¬ tor in history at Fargo College, Fargo, N. D., 1904-06; Instructor in History and Economics at the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa., 1906-21. She became head of the Department of History and Faculty Representative on the Board of Directors in 1911.

During the war she was chairman of the Red Cross Committee in charge of Red Cross work at the Baldwin School and a member of the War Relief Committee which raised over $14,000 for war relief abroad. In 1921 she went to Chicago University to study for a Ph. D. degree, major study, American history. She took the degree in 1923.

Sarah Lilian Baldwin took degree of A. B. at Cornell University, 1902, took graduate work at Columbia Univer¬ sity, 1902-04. Teacher of French and German at Blair Academy, Blairstown, N. J., 1905-11. Leave of absence 1908-09 for study in France and Germany; teacher of French and German in Glen Ridge high school, Glen Ridge, N. J., from 1911. After the World War the study of German was dropped.

During the war she was student and teacher of home- nursing, organized a Red Cross branch in Acworth, N. H., and taught French to members of War Community Club in Fuse Works in Bloomfield, N. J.

Harold Lyman Baldwin studied at Hill School, Potts- town, Pa., 1898-1900, and at Bates College, 1900-01 ; took D. D. S. at New York Dental College, 1905. He has prac¬ ticed dentistry most successfully in New York city since 3905, with a summer office at Lenox, Mass., also giving lectures and demonstrations in college and hospital clinics.

He married Dec. 18, 1909, Glennie Dexter Comegys of Asbury Park, N. J. His home is in Upper Montclair, N. J.

Children: Jean Comegys, b. May 22, 1911 Glenna, b. Aug. 23, 1919 Fritz Walter Baldwin, Jr., was graduated from Amherst

in 1905. With a fellowship in history given by Amherst, he took graduate work in Columbia University 1905-06,


taking there the degree of A. M. in 1906.

He taught history in Montclair, N. J., 1906-08. He was called to Harvard Congregational Church, Brookline, Mass., as pastor’s assistant which office he held till 1917. He was, during the first part of that time, pursuing his studies at Andover Theological Seminary. After his resignation in 1917 he spent a year in war work, taking training at Platts- burg, serving as Y. M. C. A. Educational Secretary at Camp Devens, and at Boston Lmiversity.

In December, 1918, he was called as Associate Pastor with Dr. Nehemiah Boynton of the Clinton Avenue Con¬ gregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. Upon the resigna¬ tion of Dr. Boynton in 1920 he was chosen pastor of the church.

He was married October 23, 1907, to Louise Ellis of Monson, Mass.

Children:

Arthur Dwight, b. April 16, 1910

Fritz Walter, 3rd, b. Jan. 9, 1913

Elizabeth, b. July 27, 1915

Grace Elaine Baldwin was graduated from Blair Acad¬ emy, Blairstown, N. J., in 1908 ; studied at Institute of Mu¬ sical Art, New York City, 1908-13; teacher of violin, East Orange, N. J., 1913-19; studied with Louis Svecinski; has taken New Jersey State examination for public school music, taught the violin in Light House for the Blind, New York City, 1913.

During the war she did Red Cross work and played many times for the soldiers at Bloomfield, N. J., and at Camp Merritt.

Her studio is in East Orange, N. J., and she is a mem¬ ber of the Woman’s String Orchestra, New York city.


ADDISON LYMAN AND DESCENDANTS

REV. and MRS. ADDISON LYMAN

REV. ADDISON LYMAN was born Dec. 3, 1813; was graduated from Williams College in 1839; was principal of Washington Academy at Cambridge, N. Y., for two years; graduated at Auburn Theological Seminary in 1844; and preached four months at Torringford, Conn.

E[e married Theresa Lyman, daughter of Jeremiah Lyman of Easthampton, Sept. 9, 1845, who died Jan. 23, 1847, two weeks after the death of her infant child. In 1845 Mr. and Mrs. Lyman, under the appointment of the American Home Missionary Society, went to Geneseo, Ill. On the way to Geneseo they met Rev. F. H. Pitkin and wife who were on their way to Wisconsin under the same appointment. The friendship formed on their long journey was continued by correspondence.

Mr. Pitkin died about the same time as Mrs. Lyman and on Dec. 4, 1847, Mr. Lyman and Mrs. Pitkin were mar¬ ried. Mrs. Pitkin, formerly Catherine E. Porter, was a graduate of Mt. Holyoke in the class of 1840.


She brought a daughter, Emily Porter Pitkin, born Oc¬ tober 6, 1846, to the new home. The little girl was, as the years passed, ever a faithful older sister to her eight younger brothers and sisters. There was no chasm, the nine were all brothers and sisters together. June 9, 1868, Emily Pitkin married Samuel J. Whiton of Westford, Conn., who was a missionary in Africa till the failure of his health. Mr. Whiton died May 22, 1869. Mrs. Whiton died July 1, 1876.

Mr. Lyman was pastor of the church at Geneseo for two years. He then served seven years as principal of Geneseo Academy. He was pastor of the church in Shef¬ field, Ill., fourteen years, aiding in the organization of other churches, one at Buda, Ill., where he preached four years in connection with his work at Sheffield.

In 1868 he went to Kellogg, Iowa, where he labored for a time as pastor. Later, though without definite charge, he organized churches in the vicinity, preaching in them a longer or a shorter time as circumstances required.

Some of us had the privilege of visiting the Kellogg home. No one who spent a Sunday in that home will ever forget the ideal Sabbath calm, the church attendance of the whole family, the Sunday evening singing of hymns chosen by the members of the family in turn, all the parts being taken by the several children.

In 1894 he moved to Grinnell where each of his children had attended college, then Iowa College, now Grinned Col¬ lege, four of them taking a complete course. Several of his grandchildren have been students at the same college.

He died May 7, 1902, after a brief illness, passing away without suffering and probably without knowing that the end was near. Attending church and teaching in Sunday school on Sunday as usual, he went to the other home on Wednesday morning. The last year of his life he visited every home in Grinned to make certain that each had a Bible, providing for the lack in many.

The House Missionary of September. 1902. says of him, “Calm and equable in temper, resolute and determined in his efforts for the right, patient in adversity, even if he suffered wrongfully, seeking ever to manifest the spirit of his Master in whom he firmly trusted, training a large family for Christian service and happy in seeing them en¬ gaged therein, he came to the end in peace, entering into rest at the age of 88 years and 5 months.”


After his death his wife went to her children in Berke¬ ley, California, where she died Dec. 11, 1911. She had been a loving companion, an efficient helper in his long and varied labors, and a wise and faithful mother in the home.

Children: Elbert Porter, b. Dec. 14, 1848 Theresa Maria, b. April 8, 1851 John Frederic, b. Jan. 12, 1854 Mary Lyon, b. Dec. 25, 1855 Henry Martyn, b. Aug. 13, 1858 Addison Franklin, b. Jan. 28, 1861 Catherine Elizabeth, b. March 14, 1863 Anna Louisa, b. Oct. 26, 1866

ELBERT PORTER LYMAN, son of Addison, mar¬ ried Emma Young Soper, October 26, 1875. She died Sept. 12, 1876, leaving an infant son. He married Margaret Elizabeth Johnston, October 22, 1878.

Children: Warren Soper, b. Sept 12, 1876 Elbert Johnston, b. August 17, 1879 Margaret Elizabeth, b. December 8, 1880 Addison, b. November 22, 1882 William L. Johnston, b. July 29, 1887 Jessica Davies, b. August 3, 1891

Elbert Lyman left school at 14 and went into the office of Thomas Clement, Sheffield, Illinois, as office boy. Mr. Clement taught him telegraphy. He was telegrapher at Bureau Junction several years. He applied to General Manager Swift for a position in Chicago but was sent to Dubuque, Iowa, instead, as Mr. Swift said Chicago was no place for a young man. At Dubuque he was telegraph operator and train dispatcher for several years, gaining the esteem of all the officials by his efficient and faithful ser¬ vice.

In 1881 he went to Davenport, Iowa, and was train dis¬ patcher there for two years, on the Rock Island road. Though he tried bookkeeping for a hardware firm in Daven¬ port for a year his real liking was for railroad work and he accepted a position offered him as superintendent of telegraphy on the East Tennessee and Georgia Railway with headquarters at Knoxville, Tennessee. This position he held until two or three months before his death, Feb. 15, 1894.


Though he left school at 14, he had been taught Latin and Greek by his father. At Dubuque he attended night school studying to such purpose that he was usually taken for a college man.

His was a lovable Christian character. He was ready and eager to serve the Master in any capacity. He taught in Sunday schools. He was for several years superintend¬ ent of the Sunday school of the Edwards Congregational Church in Davenport. He helped to organize the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Knoxville, and was one of its deacons at the time of his death. For his funeral sermon the pastor chose the text, “Mark the perfect man and be¬ hold the upright, for the end of that man is peace.”

He died while still in the prime of life just past 45, leaving to his wife the task of training their six children from two and one half years old up to 17. Well did she fulfil the heavy, though beautiful, task as the family record shows. Elbert had seen all his children except the youngest members of the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Knox¬ ville before his death.

Warren Soper Lyman, son of Elbert P., was gradu¬ ated with high honors from Gr inn ell College, Iowa, and took a medical course at McGill University, Montreal. He is now a physician in Ottawa, Canada. He married Louise Meiklejohn, November 29, 1910.

Elbert Johnston Lyman, son of Elbert P., was educated at the University of Tennessee and Grinned College. For some time he was a salesman for the Southern Coal and Coke Company.

He was a soldier in the Spanish War of 1898. He en¬ tered the World War, becoming Major and later Lieut. Col. He was connected with 318 Machine Gun Battalion, of the 81st Division. He has accepted an appointment as Major in the regular army since the war ended.

Lieut. Col. Lyman received special service cross for service over seas, was promoted after the armistice, and, after his return was publicly commended at Fort McClellan by General Pershing for his bravery in action and for his well trained men. The 81st Division was also commended for courage and for wonderful discipline.

In the fall of 1922 he became executive officer of Gen¬ eral Smith, commanding officer at Fort Howard, Maryland.

He married Goldie Margaret Ayres, June 10, 1902.


Children: Celeste, b. October 12, 1904. Elbert Johnston, Jr., January 11, 1908. William Ayres, b. May 31, 1909.

Margaret Elizabeth Lyman, daughter of Elbert P., was educated at Denver High School and University of Tennes¬ see. Before her marriage she was secretary of the Y. W. C. A., Knoxville, Tenn. She married James Thaddeus Cox, June 18, 1907. They are now on a farm at Fountain City, Tennessee.

Children: Lyman, b. October 9, 1909 Parmenas, b. May 29, 1911 Emily Louise, b. March 2, 1914 Margaret Elizabeth, August 31, 1916

Addison Lyman, son of Elbert P., was educated at a business college. He is now General Sales Manager for the Fiintpote Company and resides in New Orleans, La.

He married Mary Chandler, April 9, 1907. She died October 5, 1913.

Children: Mary Chandler, b. April 13, 1908 Ellen Martha, b. June 3, 1911

After their mother’s death these little girls were lovingly cared for by Mr. Lyman’s mother who made their home hers until February 14, 1920, when Mr. Lyman was mar¬ ried to Lesley Girten of Houston, Texas.

William L. Johnston Lyman, son of Elbert P., married Marguerite Getaz, October 30, 1912.

Children: Margaret Getaz, b. June 16, 1915 William Johnston, Jr., July 30, 1921

He was educated at the University of Tennessee and at the University of Ohio; mining engineer in the Campbell Coal Company in East Tennessee; then he was for a time manager of the Southwestern district of the American Cast Iron Pipe Co. He was then located at Dallas, Texas.

He was later partner in the Caldwell-Lyman Farm Power Equipment Company of Oklahoma City. While in Tennessee he was superintendent of a Mission Sunday school. In Dallas he was superintendent of the Sunday school of the Central Congregational Church. In Oklahoma City he was vice president of the Men’s Bible Class of the


First Presbyterian Church. He is now in Birmingham, Alabama.

Jessica Davies Lyman, daughter of Elbert P., married Wellington Donaldson, March 2, 1915.

Children:

Martha Grant, b. November 23, 1916

Jeannette, b. November 2, 1918

Their home is in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York. Jessica Davies Lyman was graduated from the University of Tennessee, was connected with Mountain Industrial work at Harlan, Ky., for one year, taught in the public schools of Birmingham, Alabama, for one year.

THERESA MARIA LYMAN, daughter of Addison, married David Riche M. Hill, October 11, 1882, who died March 12, 1886.

Child:

Emma Theresa, b. May 15, 1884, d. May 25, 1890.

Mr. Hill left a son, Bruce Vickery Hill, born October 19, 1872. The second mother was a true mother to the ten year old boy from the first. To be an older sister to younger brothers and sisters usually develops a motherly spirit and Theresa has had it in a marked degree all her life. Bruce was left wholly to her care after the death of his father in 1886- He was graduated from Iowa College, took master’s degree at the University of Nebraska, and a Dr.’s degree at Berlin, Germany. For six years he taught in the University of California. His special subject was physics. He took a deep interest in leading the young men with whom he came in contact to the best choices in their voca¬ tions and to high principles in life. Later he left his pro¬ fession and is now in a responsible position with the Bell Telephone Company in Chicago. He married Effie Rose Haines, October 25, 1905, and they have an adopted son, Joseph.

Theresa taught in Kellogg before her marriage. The little people were her care. She has been to all her family all that good older sisters always are and has a deep interest in public affairs and religious work. Her present home is in Denver, Colorado, 2237 Grove St.

JOHN FREDERIC LYMAN, son of Addison, owns a farm in Rockwell City, Iowa, is elder of the Presbyterian Church in the town, has served several years as school direc-


tor, and is a director in the County Farm Bureau. He mar¬ ried Anna Pickens, March 2, 1891.

Children: Catherine Eliza, b. Dec. 31, 1893 James Pickens, b. March 14, 1896; d. June 28, 1896

Frederic Addison, b. February 8, 1904, graduated from Rockwell City high school and is now in Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa.

Catherine E. Lyman, daughter of John Frederic, grad¬ uated from Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa. After teaching some time, she married William Roderick Sher¬ man August 20, 1919. Mr. Sherman was for a time instruc¬ tor in economics in Brown University, Providence, R. I. After his study in Clark University, Worcester, Mass., he, though his home was in Newport, R. I., went to teach in Buena Vista. There he found his wife, and brought her back to the East.

He is now on the Faculty of De Pauw University, Green Castle, Indiana, A son, William Gordon, was born to them, February 5, 1923.

MARY LYON LYMAN, daughter of Addison, married George H. Harvey, June 9, 1875. After living some years in Mason City, Iowa, they moved to Denver, Colorado, with which city they and their family have since been identified. Mr. Harvey is a manufacturer and seller of gloves. He was for a number of years a captain and later major in the Colorado National Guard, has been treasurer and director of the Boulevard Congregational Church, and, for many years, an active director of the Colorado Humane Society, being specially interested in the child welfare side of the work. Of over 180 girls placed in his care all but three have turned out well.

Mrs. Harvey’s life was an example of faithfulness in daily living. Her church, her Sunday School class, her missionary society of which she was secretary and then president for several years and the spiritual life of her family were her many interests. Her life of unselfish serv¬ ice was ended June 13, 1918, by a sudden death.

Children: 1. George H. Harvey, Jr., b. March 7, 1876 2. Mary Lyman, b. August 7, 1879 3. Frederic Addison, b. June 5, 1882 4. Katie Anna, b. January 11, 1884, d. April 8, 1889 5. Grace Maud, b. March 23, 1890


George H. Harvey, Jr., was graduated from the classical course, Grinnell College, in 1896, having done the seven years academy and college work in five years. He went into the leather novelty and glove business with his father and has seen it grow to a large volume. He has been trustee of the Boulevard Congregational Church, secretary and director of the Colorado Mountain Club and editor of ‘‘Trail and Timber Line,” His avocations are mountains and music.

He married Jessie May Stocker of Denver, July 30, 1906. She died September 21, 1909.

He married Elvia C. McCoy of Portland, Oregon, Jan. 11, 1911.

Mary Lyman Harvey was one of the noted singers at Denver at the time of her untimely death. In years she died young but in point of service her life had already been fuller than most.

She married George Henry Sethman, March 15, 1897.

Children:

Harvey Thurston, b. Dec. 31, 1899

Aldith, b. Jan. 2, 1901, d. Jan. 2, 1901

Mrs. Sethman died Feb. 1, 1901. Her little son, Har¬ vey, only a little more than a year old, was taken by his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey and brought up as their very own. He pursued a course of study at the Uni¬ versity of Colorado, Boulder, later was connected with the Denver News and in January, 1923, started on a trip around the world.

Frederic Addison Harvey was graduated from the scien¬ tific course at Grinnell College, Iowa, in 1904. He then went to the University of California in Berkeley as assist¬ ant in physics. Here he received the degree of Ph. D. in 1909. He taught physics for seven years in Iowa College and at Syracuse University. He is now at Genesee, N. Y., with the Semet Schay Company in the coke oven business. He is a member of several scientific societies and an elder in the Genesee Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Harvey was married June 17, 1910, to Mrs. Alice Wilson Kennedy, whose one daughter, Margaret, born December 12, 1905, was adopted by Mr. Harvey with change of name to Margaret Kennedy Harvey. A second daughter, Mary Wilson, was born September 6, 1912.


Grace Maude Harvey lives at her father’s home, Den¬ ver. She is a teacher of the piano especially successful with children. She is on the outing committee of the Colorado Mountain Club.

HENRY MARTYN LYMAN, son of Addison, took the degree of A. B. at Grinnell College in 1884. He re¬ ceived the honorary degree of A. M. from the same college in 1887 when he gave one of the orations at Commencement. He studied theology at Hartford Theological Seminary 1885-87, at Chicago Theological Seminary, 1891-92.

He was married to Jessie A. Gillett, May 31, 1895.

His first charge was at Cripple Creek, Colorado, over the newly organized church from 1892-94. He also had pastorates at Stanton, Nebraska, 1894-96.

He studied for Ph.D. in Chicago in 1896 but took a pastorate instead of finishing the work.

He had pastorates in Chicago, 1897-1900; Jamestown, N. Y., 1901-03; Pilgrim Memorial Church.

He was the first pastor of this undenominational church, in which ten denominations had charter membership.

Alexandria, Indiana, 1903-04. Because of Mrs. Lyman’s health they went to California in 1904.

From September, 1904, to July, 1905, Mr. Lyman was acting pastor of the Second Congregational Church at San Diego. During these months the church, at a crisis in its history, took on new- life and courage, changed its name to Logan Heights Congregational Church, and the mem¬ bers received during those months contributed largely to the charter membership of two more recently organized churches.

Further pastorates were in Michigan, 1908-10, Denmark, Iowa, 1910-15; Overbrook, Kansas, 1915-16; San Jacinto, California, 1917-20. The church building in San Jacinto was wrecked by an earthquake in 1918 and the church united with the Christian Church in 1919. Mr. Lyman served the united church till February, 1920, when he pur¬ chased a home in San Jacinto and works a small ranch.

Mr. Lyman was a delegate to the National Council in Kansas City in 1903 where Rev. Albert J. Lyman was also present, near whom he sat when the prayer was offered by him that seemed almost inspired, so uplifting was it.

ADDISON FRANKLIN LYMAN, son of Addison, was educated in public schools and was graduated from Grin¬ nell College. He helped himself through by the practice of


civil engineering. He and his brother, Henry M., came east together and entered Hartford Theological Seminary. In some way his mind was led towards the doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg and leaving the Congregational in¬ stitution to which he came, he pursued theological study in Cambridge at the Theological Seminary of the New Church.

He preached at Eagle Grove, la., in the summer of 1886, at Burwell, Neb., 1887-88, where he organized a Congrega¬ tional church. He preached at Abington, Mass., the sum¬ mer of 1891.

Owing to ill health caused by a fall, he was obliged to give up preaching as a profession. So after finishing his studies he turned to engineering. He has followed engin¬ eering and surveying as a profession ever since. He is a registered civil engineer and surveyor as required by the state of North Carolina in which he now lives at Wades- boro. December 4, 1895, he married Anna A. Foster, daugh¬ ter of John N. and Mary (Robbins) Foster, both of Eng¬ lish descent. Anna Foster was born January 29, 1864. At the time of their marriage she was living in Somerville, Mass.

Children: Addison Franklin, Jr., b. March 9, 1897 Atherton Raulston, b. Aug. 7, 1898 Payson Williston, b. June 14, 1900 Russell Seaver, b. July 10, 1901

Addison F. Lyman, Jr., was born in Somerville, Mass. After receiving an elementary education in various schools in different states he entered college at Bryn Athyn, Pa., working his way for the most part. After three and a, half years at college he entered the army, and was in the heavy artillery at Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C., from August 28, 1918, to January 25, 1919. He has had two years in the theological seminary and intends to finish the course, though he is now teaching a high school in Anson Co., N. C.

For a number of years there has been a regular New Church service at the Wadesboro home. The father for¬ merly led the service, preaching himself, or reading a ser¬ mon, and played the musical instrument. Now Addison Jr., who spends his week ends at home, leads the service while his father furnishes the music. The father has com¬ posed some hymns worthy of a place in church hymnals.

Payson Williston, son of Addison F., was born in Green-


wood, Mass., and after receiving his elementary education at different schools he was graduated from the high school at Bryn Athyn, Pa. He is now clerking with a fine firm in Altoona, Pa.

Russell Seaver, son of Addison F., was born in Green¬ wood, Mass. Like his brothers he attended schools in sev¬ eral places and is now at the New Church school which his brothers attended at Bryn Athyn.

CATHERINE ELIZABETH LYMAN, daughter of Addison, born at Sheffield, Ill., moved to Kellogg, la., when five years old. Beginning the study of Latin and music at home, she studied these further, and other subjects as well, at Grinnell College, finishing her work there in 1884. For three years she taught music in Wilton and Kellogg, serving also as organist and choir leader in the Kellogg Church, evidently a worthy member of a musical family.

March 16, 1887, she was married to William Laverne Camp, born September 21, 1865. They have had nine children of whom eight are living. Mrs. Camp says that she has devoted most of her time to the raising of her family. “When they were small,” she writes, “I played them to sleep, sometimes four at a time, after which I took a nap and got dinner' while they slept.”

But she has been organist for the Sunday school at various places, has also taught in the Sunday school, and served as deaconess in Corning, Iowa. She is a member of the Missionary Society, of the Social Circle, of the W. C. T. U. and of the W. R. C.. Mr. Camp is a telegraph operator in Corning. He was educated at Wilton, Iowa. He has been a teacher, a farmer, and a telegraph operator in various places, but has been at Corning since 1912.

In the church he has been at different times S. S. Supt., teacher of Bible class, leader of the prayer meeting in the pastor’s absence, and a member of the church choir.

“Together” seems to be the ‘slogan’ of this family. Whether studying, working, or reading all have been com¬ panions. Mr. Camp and his boys have been interested in Esperanto and have become proficient in its use, taking several Esperanto journals and having many books in Es¬ peranto.

Children: Harold Laverne, b. Oct. 27, 1888 Chester Claremont, b. May 25, 1890 Florence Elizabeth, b. March 30, 1892


Charlotte Christine, b. Aug. 7, 1894 Aa Bryan, b. July 2, 1896, d. Jan. 2, 1901 Catherine, b. Jan. 9, 1899 William Laverne, Jr., b. May 19, 1901 Calvin Philip, b. June 28, 1904 Sarah, b. July 6, 1906

Harold Laverne Camp entered school at Atlanta, Ga., when seven years old. Even then he was set at assisting other children in their work.

After finishing grade work in schools in various places he worked on his father's farm four years. He was gradu¬ ated from the high school in Corning in 1910, from Grinnell College in 1914. He was Principal of High School Wap- pello, la., two years. He took the A. M. degree at Cornell in 1917, and the degree of Ph. D. at Iowa State University. His specialty is physics.

During his college life he helped himself in various ways, working for room and board during the term, and in the summer vacations doing anything that turned up whether selling books, working on a farm, or driving a bus in Yellowstone Park, which he did two summers.

He married Emeline Bennader of Lodi, Ohio, Oct. 27, 1917. In 1918 he was.called to the service and was sent to an officers’ training school at Camp Pike, Arkansas. He was released later when he had nearly completed the course for a 2nd lieutenant.

He now holds the position of assistant high school visi¬ tor for the University of Illinois.

Child:

Mary Jane, b. Jan. 11, 1922

Chester Claremont Camp knew, and could hand out correctly on call the letters, figures, and animals on his brother’s blocks before he could talk. Harold, 17 months his senior, was his teacher. Graduating from high school together, both earned scholarships in Grinnell College. There Chester stood first in a class of 89. He then went to Cornell on a scholarship given by Grinnell, from which he graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa rank.

In 1914 he went to Paris at attend the World’s Congress in Esperanto in which he was proficient. But Paris had other things on her mind on August 3, the date of his arrival, and Chester left the city on the last train for the last boat to England. There he staid a month before he


could start for home. He then went to Cornell where he staid till 1917. That year he went to Camp Dodge, Iowa, to train for service in France. He sailed for France in March, 1918, and was placed as stenographer in the office of the Chemical Warfare service at Tours. He was 2nd lieutenant and adjutant in the office.

His ‘‘Experiences in France” written at first for a home paper was afterwards put into booklet form.

Through his Esperanto he learned French and German. He became friendly with a French family and was enter¬ tained also by a deputy whose wife was pleased to find a young man who did not smoke, or drink wine. Like his brother, he helped himself through college, in much the same ways, driving a bus in Yellowstone Park two sum¬ mers. His specialty is mathematics in which he had an interest naturally. He was doing cube root examples by logarithms when ten years old. He was an assistant of the professor of mathematics at college. He was given a fellowship at Cornell the second year.

In 1920 he went to Ames, Iowa, as assistant professor in mathematics. He is now Instructor in mathematics at Urbana, Illinois.

Florence Elizabeth Camp was educated at Corning high school and Grinnell College. From 1914 to 1920 she taught in schools in Adams County. Then she went to her sister in Price, Utah, where she took a business course.

Charlotte Christine Camp received her education at the Corning high school, afterwards securing a 1st class teach¬ ers’ certificate in the state examinations. She spent the summer vacation of 1914 as tent girl in Yellowstone Park, there gaining 40 lbs. in weight during the summer. Her family hardly knew the slender, delicate girl they sent to the Park .

After teaching two years she went on a scholarship to Tabor College, working for room and board.

She married Clarence Henry Stevenson, Jr., June 30, 1917. Mr. Stevenson was refused enlistment in the service because of a defective ear, but later was drafted and ac¬ cepted. He was overseas eleven months being in the army of occupation the last part of the time.

Children :

Charlotte Elizabeth, b. May 11, 1918

Clarence Henry, 3rd, b. Jan. 28, 1920


William Lyman, b. Sept. 26, 1921 Virginia Grosvenor, b. Jan. 30, 1923

Aa Bryan Camp was but 4J4 years old when he died but was remarkably mature for that age. He cheer¬ fully cared for his little sister, Catherine, not quite two years old, loved Sunday school, and was eager for the time to come when he could attend day school. His musical ability was much beyond his years.

Catherine Camp is now in her college course at Grinnell, alternating college work with teaching, which she greatly enjoys, thus working her own way through college. Be¬ sides teaching she is taking a teacher’s course, and studying music. She is now teaching at Perry, Iowa, but will soon finish her college course at Grinnell.

William Lyman Camp, Jr., graduated from Corning high school in 1919. He entered the college at Grinnell the same year, having earned a scholarship in high school. His music teacher pronounced his voice the best baritone voice he had ever tried.

Though working his way through college, he found time to be a leader in the religious work of the college, as wTell as to take a prominent place in its musical circles. He was in the church choir and in the oratorio club at Grinnell, was secretary of the Endeavor Society, and leader of the Gospel team of the college. He is now in Illinois Univer¬ sity, Urbana. He is specializing in history and public speak¬

ing- ^ Calvin Philip Camp is a member of the class of 1923 in

the Corning high school and intends to take a college course. He has been on the football and basketball teams and a member of the Glee Club.

Like his brother William he has worked in the Kansas wheat fields for three summers, driving a tractor when only 17. Like all his brothers and sisters he is a member of the church and a faithful attendant at its services.

Sarah Camp is also a member of the class of 1923 in the Corning high school even with, and at times ahead of, her brother in scholarship. She is a member of the Girls’ Glee Club. She is planning a college course.

ANNA LOUISA LYMAN, daughter of Addison, was graduated from Iowa College at Grinnell in 1885, hav¬ ing entered the institution before she was 15. Offering to go to Utah under the New West Education Com¬ mission, she was refused because of her extreme youth.


When she had made good by teaching three years in the home town of Kellogg, she was asked to go to Ogden, Utah, to organize a mission school there. The school was among apostatized Mormons who had themselves raised the money for the school building. Anna had the family musical talent both in vocal and instrumental music. She played the organ in church at 14 when an opportunity offered and directed choirs for the joy of it. This ability was a great aid in her new work. She was superintendent of the Sunday school, teacher of the Bible class and had a literary afternoon with entertainments once a week, thus raising money for a school library. Being the only educated person in the community of about 200 she was necessarily the leader in all these movements, and, as the children were eager to improve and really talented, the work was a joy. Returning to her sister’s house in Denver she met and married Rev. Edward H. Ashmun, then pastor of the Boulevard Congregational Church, later superintendent of Home Missionary work in New Mexico and Arizona, with headquarters at Albuquerque, New Mex¬ ico. After six years at Albuquerque and two very trying years at the mining camp of Jerome, Arizona, Mr. Ashmun went to Weiser, Idaho, but after two years, was obliged to give up his ministerial work.

In 1904 Mr. Ashmun was placed by the University of California in charge of their first experiment for the ex¬ termination of mosquitoes. Later he was made milk in¬ spector by the town authorities. As pastor’s wife, Mrs. Ashmun had been a real helpmeet to her husband, espe¬ cially in taking charge of church music. Now she be¬ came his assistant in scientific work. Mr. Ashmun died in December, 1904, and the work of extermination, for the contract year, was given into the hands of Mrs. Ashmun. At the end of the year she gave her attention to music, and was organist of a church in Berkeley for four years besides teaching music.

Henry Edward Ashmun, their son, was born April 10, 1892, and thus was twelve years old at his father’s death. He determined to gain a college education and helped him¬ self towards it in any way that offered, as many red blooded American boys do.

Whether as janitor of a church, or typing for a manu¬ facturing company in the summer and for two college de¬ partments in the winter, or selling aluminum ware at times, he kept the end for which he worked in view. He was


graduated from the University of California in 1914 and from its law school in 1916. From 1917 to 1919 he was special secretary of the Supreme Court of California, to assist Judge Sloss, one of the ablest judges on the Supreme bench.

In 1920 he accepted the position of executive secretary to the Pacific Coast Merchant Tailors’ Association, for which his previous training in law and secretarial work seemed to have particularly fitted him. He is actively en¬ gaged in church work.

Mrs. Ashmun is still doing pipe organ work and her son shares her enjoyment of music having taken piano and violin, as well as vocal training. He is also interested in literary work having had one short story published in St. Nicholas and one in The American Boy.


HORACE LYMAN AND DESCENDANTS

REV. HORACE LYMAN

REV. HORACE LYMAN, son of Daniel, born Nov. 15,

1815, was graduated from Williams College in 1842 and

from Andover Theological Seminary in 1846. He was or¬

dained as an evangelist at Castleton, Vt., Nov. 1, 1848, and

on the same day married Mary Dennison of that place. He

was already under appointment as Home Missionary to Ore¬

gon. Shortly after his marriage, he and his wife, visiting the

ancestral home on the way to New York, embarked from

that port in a sailing vessel and were six months on their

way around Cape Horn to San Francisco. They worked

a few months at San Francisco.

In November, 1849, they reached Portland, Oregon, then

a comparative wilderness. Mr. Lyman gathered the first

church in Portland and was for four and a half years its

pastor, doing much himself in the erection of the first

church edifice.

In 1854 he removed to Dallas where he assisted in or¬

ganizing a church and in founding La Crede Academy.

But the chief work of his life was done in Pacific Uni¬

versity at Forest Grove. He was professor first of ancient

history, then of mathematics, and still later of English

literature and rhetoric classes of instruction which he


filled for more than twenty years with fidelity and with

great usefulness. At the same time he often preached in

the town or in the surrounding country. Later in life he

taught for a short time, helping to organize the institution

which has since grown to be Whitman College at Walla

Walla, Washington, of which his son was for many years

professor, and at times acting president. Toward the end

of his life he did general mission work at several stations

in Washington Co.

The great hardships of their early missionary life told

heavily on the health of Mrs. Lyman though she lived to

see her four children ready for their own useful careers.

But her death preceded that of her husband thirteen years.

He died at his home in Forest Grove, March 31, 1887.

H. W. Scott, Editor of the Portland Oregonian for

many years, was one of Mr. Lyman’s most distinguished

pupils. He always held Professor Lyman in the greatest

veneration as the most spiritually minded man he ever knew

yet withal a practical man. His faith was sublime. Says

Editor Scott, “He did everything, he directed studies; he

heard recitations; he kept a fatherly eye upon all the young

people about him; he inspired universal confidence and

through the sympathy that radiated from his nature and in¬

vited its response he came into possession of their inmost

feelings so that he knew just how to be a help. He was

quiet, yet an indefatigable worker; the personification of a

gentleman, yet unusually firm.”

Prof. Lyman left an indelible impress on the life of

the great state of Oregon of which he was one of the earliest

builders.

In the funeral sermon, his classmate and lifelong coad¬

jutor, Dr. George H. Atkinson, spoke tenderly and warmly

of his long and useful service as pastor and preacher, hus¬

band and father, friend and neighbor, but he declared that

the crowning glory of his life was his serene and Christian

character.

Children of Rev. Horace and Mary Dennison Lyman:


1. Sarah Iola, Aug. 16, 1850

2. William Dennison, Dec. 1, 1852

3. Horace Sumner, Dec. 18, 1855

4. Mary Frances, Dec. 11, 1857

SARAH IOLA LYMAN, daughter of Horace, was edu¬

cated in Pacific University. As long as her family lived her

home was in Forest Grove. Her home is now in Portland

where she has lived many years. She has been much in¬

terested in all reform work and has been a prominent mem¬

ber of the W. C. T. U. for over thirty years. She was

County superintendent of Press Work for twenty years

and did a great deal of writing for many papers. Though

Oregon had become a prohibition state before the 18th

amendment to the U. S. Constitution was passed, her in¬

terest was not only in the temperance reform, but also in

many other reforms which Oregon has adopted.


PROFESSOR WILLIAM D. LYMAN

WILLIAM DENNISON LYMAN, son of Horace, born at Portland, Ore., Dec. 1, 1852, lived with his father Horace Lyman at Dallas and Forest Grove, Ore., during childhood and youth, was graduated from a short college course at Pacific University in 1873, went East in 1875, entered Williams College in advanced standing, graduating in 1877. He was a teacher of history, political science, and English literature at Pacific University, Oregon, from 1877 to 1886. After two years in California and New Mexico, became professor of history at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, where he remained till 1920 with the exception of a year at Spokane, where he had been elected as president of a proposed Finney College, an enterprise so affected by the financial collapse of 1890-94 that it had to be abandoned.

During his connection with Whitman College he was almost constantly engaged in literary and lecturing under¬ takings, having written several books, history of the North¬ west Indian Wars, histories of Old Walla Walla County, the Yakima Valley, Snohomish and Skagit Counties, and the Columbia River. Besides these volumes he wrote many articles for magazines and newspapers, East and West; and was a regular editorial writer for papers at Walla Walla.

He was widely known as a mountain climber, having made fourteen ascents of great snow peaks, among them being Mts. Tacoma (Rainier), Hood, Adams, St. Helens, Glacier Peak, Olympus, and others in the Cascade and Olympic ranges. He might nearly be regarded as the dis-


coverer of several of the great scenic regions of the state of Washington, having been the first to take photographs and to give published descriptions of some of the wonders of the glaciers of Mt. Adams, of the Olympic peninsula, and of Lake Chelan and the great canons which radiate from it. Several glaciers and one lake have received his name. Of these the most remarkable are Lyman lake and Lyman glacier.

He was active in political life, having been a candidate, though unsuccessful, for Congress in 1914. In late years he was a Democrat and a firm supporter of President Wilson, though he regarded himself as an Independent and nearly a man without a party.

During the Great War he was chairman of the War History Committee of Walla Walla County, and was active in speaking and writing in support of the country.

Professor Lyman retired from his work at Whitman in the summer of 1920. The commencement of the college was the occasion of signal honors paid him. He received a gift of gold, a five dollar gold piece for each of the thirty-two years of service in the institution and such an ovation was given him that, deeply touched, he was unable to reply. A family reunion was held at his home at about the same time, his son, Hubert, being home from the Philip¬ pines.

And then in the midst of honors and family joys, plan¬ ning to devote his time to literary work in the future, he was suddenly taken home, 1920. He died instantly, falling in his yard.

W. D. Lyman and Mattie Clark were married June 15, 1882. Mrs. Lyman was born at Harrisburg, Oregon, Feb. 22, 1860. She was educated at Pacific University. During the intervals in her college work she was a teacher. During the Great War, Mrs. Lyman was very active in Red Cross work. She has been a leader in the activities of the church to which the family belongs, the Congregational. She is also an official of the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and is also one of the state officials of the same organization, state chairman of patriotic education.

Children:

1. Hubert Clark, b. June 14, 1883

2. Marjorie Dennison, b. Feb. 24, 1885


3. Willena Gladys, b. June 23, 1889

4. Harold William, b. Feb. 10, 1893

Hubert Clark Lyman, son of W. D. Lyman, received his education at Whitman College, graduating in 1905, became for a time a reporter on the Spokesman-Review of Spokane, then secretary and advertising' writer of the Hazelwood Creamery Co., then spent a season in Alaska as time-keeper on the Copper River Railroad, then re¬ ceived an appointment from Government as secretary of one of the bureaus of the Department of Education at Ma¬ nila, Philippine Islands, in 1914-15 travelled in Japan, China, Ceylon, and India, and went by the Red Sea route to Europe, where he spent some months, returning to the U. S. and his home at Walla Walla in September, 1915.

Returning to Manila, he resumed work with the Gov¬ ernment for a year, afterwards becoming secretary and assistant manager of the Insular Lumber Co. at Manila. He was married April 23, 1918, to Minerva Bower, whose home was in Spokane. They have one son, John Bower, born May 11, 1919, and a daughter, Patricia Jean, born Feb. 25, 192L

Marjorie Dennison, daughter of W. D. Lyman, was educafed at Whitman College, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Music in 1906, after which she spent part of a >ear in special musical study in Chicago, and returning home became for several years a teacher of piano, first in Pendle¬ ton, Ore., then in the Whitman College Conservatory of Music. Married Nov. 6, 1912, to Ridgeway M. Gillis, a graduate of Whitman College, class of 1906, and of the Boston Institute of Technology 1910, becoming engineer in charge of the State Highway system in Western Wash¬ ington, and president of the Northwestern Association of Engineers. They have three children, Lyman Ridg*eway, born June 20, 1914, Jackson Clark, born Aug. 21, 1916, and William Mills, Dec. 15, 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Gillis were both connected with the local activities of War work. Mr. Gillis desired to join the army, though past draft age, but the state authorities declined to release him on the ground that the completion of certain highway work was of immediate importance. Their home is in Vancouver, Washington.

Willena Gladys, daughter of W. D. Lyman, was edu¬ cated at Whitman College, class of 1912, a teacher for six years at Pasco, Burbank, and Walla Walla, and was also a singer. Married June 15, 1918, to Hervey P. Bennett,


editor and publisher of the Ivalama Bulletin. Mrs. Bennett was at the head of the Red Cross work in her home town of Kalama and has also been active in musical and literary circles.

Harold William, son of W. D. Lyman, a graduate of Whitman College, class of 1915, took a position on the Walla Walla Bulletin, resigning in the spring of 1918 to enlist in the U. S. Navy. He was stationed at Bremer¬ ton, Wash., in the Medical Reserve Corps. On Sept. 29, 1918, he was married to Rachel Drum, daughter of Henry Drum, Warden of the Washington State Penitentiary. Miss Drum was educated at the University of Washington and became an expert in play-ground work, of which she became supervisor at Walla Walla prior to marriage. In December, 1918, Harold was sent by Government to Prince¬ ton University and Lhiiversity of Pennsylvania to receive special instruction as a government insurance officer. He received a commission as ensign. Upon completion of his course with high honors he was ordered to Portland to the Government insurance office. Orders for demobiliza¬ tion having come in June, 1919, he accepted a position on the reportorial staff of the Oregonian. At the time of their marriag'e Mrs. Lyman was in the Reconstruction Service of the U. S. Army Medical Corps, later released to become Recreation Secretary at the Y. W. C. A. Hostess House at Bremerton, Wash. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lyman now live at Portland, Oregon, where Rev. Horace Lyman and his wife made their missionary home in 1849, the site of this present great city of 350,000 people being at that time a perfect wilderness, a jungle of giant trees. Harold is now automobile editor on the Portland “Oregonian,” They have one child, Barbara Jane, born May 6, 1922.

HORACE SUMNER LYMAN, son of Horace, was born Dec. 18, 1855, at Dalla-s, Oregon. His early home was at Forest Grove. He was graduated from Pacific Uni¬ versity in 1878. He studied theology at Oakland, Cal., and at Oberlin, Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1883.

He preached at White Salmon, Washington, and at Hood River, Oregon. In 1884 he took up land in Clatsop Co. also preaching there. About this time he began lit¬ erary work. A story, “The Man who Did as he Pleased,” appeared in the San Francisco Congregational paper. In 1887 he became editor of “The Prohibition Star” published in Portland. This paper by its able editorials did a great work for temperance though it had a brief existence. In


1889 came a “History of Portland” and a “History of Ore¬ gon” in 1892, a history in four volumes, still regarded as the best history of the state.

He was elected superintendent of schools Clatsop County in 1890, holding that position till 1904. He still continued his literary work, writing on many subjects for “The Ore¬ gonian," the “Oregon Historical Quarterly” and other papers.

He had charge of the Oregon Educational exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition in 1903 and was to have had the same position at the Portland World’s Fair in 1905, but his death came Dec. 22, 1904.

A series of Indian Tales and Fairy Stories which he wrote was published shortly after his death in the Sunday Oregonian, beautiful productions, read and cherished by hundreds of friends in Oregon and Washington. He had also prepared a “History of Oregon Poets.” His many timely articles in the Oregon press, championed not only the temperance cause but many other reforms since adopted in his native state.

Through these and his school work he was widely known in the state. He was greatly beloved by teachers and people, especially in Clatsop County where he knew almost every man, woman and child in the county. To these and to many others throughout the state his life was a help and an in¬ spiration to a higher plane of living.

MARY FRANCES LYMAN, daughter of Horace, was graduated from Pacific University in 1878. Though with her sister, their father’s housekeeper till her marriage, she taught for three years in the Indian Training School at Forest Grove. Since her marriage home duties and the training of her five children have not prevented her from preparing occasional articles for the press. She was mar¬ ried April 11, 1885, to Newton McCoy. Their home has always been in Portland, Oregon.

Mr. McCoy was of Virginian descent, of Dutch, Scotch, Irish, and English extraction, though Iowa was his native state. In 1862 his parents with their six children moved from Iowa to Oregon. The journey was dangerous and difficult. Indians threatened attack, roads were rough, streams to be crossed were deep and rapid, ox teams were slow. Many women and children died on the way. Others contracted consumption. Among these was Newton’s mother who died soon after reaching Oregon, leaving six children, Newton, the oldest being but ten years old.


But he worked his way through school and college be¬ sides helping his father and the other children. He gradu¬ ated from Pacific University in 1880, was admitted to the bar in Portland in 1884. He has practiced law in that city ever since and has at all times been an ardent supporter of all reforms proposed in city and state. He has been a trustee of Pacific University, and in 1922 on a recall, was elected a member of the Public Service Commission of Oregon.

Children:

Luella Mary, b. March 21, 1886

Horace Lyman, b. Feb. 5, 1888

Elvia Columbia, b. July 4, 1890

Newton Francis, b. Sept. 18, 1892

Ina Marjorie, b. May 11, 1897

Luella Mary McCoy was educated in the public schools of Portland. Being of an artistic temperament, she has become an authority on house building and decoration. She was married Feb. 8, 1910, to F. Wesley Orr, then Professor of Public Speaking and Oratory at Pacific University. For some years he has held the same position at Lawrence Uni¬ versity, Appleton, Wisconsin.

Horace Lyman McCoy, after graduating from Port¬ land high school with high honors received his higher education at Pacific University and the University of Wash¬ ington from which he was graduated in 1912. He was graduated from the Oregon State Law School in 1916 and practiced law with his father till joining the army in 1918. His work was in connection with war risk insurance. He was stationed at Camp Lewis with the rank of first lieu¬ tenant. After his discharge in 1919 he entered government service working with the Federal Board for vocational education. He was married to Evelyn Orr, sister of Pro¬ fessor Orr, June 29, 1918. They have one child, Horace Lyman McCoy, Jr., born November 9, 1919.

Elvia Columbia McCoy was graduated from the Wash¬ ington High School with a record which gave her a scholar¬ ship at Whitman College. Instead of taking the course, she was married January 11, 1911, to George H. Harvey, Jr., of Denver, Colorado, son of Mary Lyman Harvey. Her musical taste and ability have had opportunity of de¬ velopment in the musical Harvey family. She and her hus¬ band are earnest church workers and good citizens. They


are enthusiastic mountain climbers and have scaled many a peak, views of which have been photographed by Mr. Harvey.

Newton Francis McCoy was graduated from the Wash¬ ington High School in 1910 and was a member of the first class graduated from Reed College, Portland. His love of mathematics decided him to take up civil engineering. He tutored in Reed College two years during his course and taught in Kalama, Washington, and in Portland high school after his course.

He enlisted in the naval aviation branch of the U. S. service in 1917. Following his training at San Diego he went to France in 1918. He was near Bordeaux and was engaged in patrolling the southwest coast of France, coming home in February, 1919. After a course in the University of Washington in 1919-20 he entered the civil service and is now engaged in work on the Pacific Highway near Ellens- burgh, Washington.

Ina Marjorie McCoy was graduated from the Jefferson high school in 1915. She has given considerable attention to music and completed the college course begun at Reed, at the State University, Eugene City.


LAUREN D. LYMAN AND DESCENDANTS

LAUREN DWIGHT LYMAN

LAUREN DWIGHT LYMAN was born, lived, and died in the ancestral home. He was married Nov. 29, 1848, to Charlotte Root Stearns of Southampton, Mass., a daugh¬ ter of Dea. Theodore Stearns.

Children :

1. Addison Dwight, b. Sept 22, 1850, d. June 17, 1853 2. Theodore Stearns, b. Aug. 15, 1852, d. June 17, 1863 3. Mary Charlotte, b. Oct. 4, 1854, d. May 19, 1875 4. Sarah Elizabeth, b. Sept. 23, 1856 5. Henry Lauren, b. March 30, 1859 6. Addison Timothy, b. Jan. 3, 1861, d. Feb. 2, 1861

Only Payson W. Lyman and his sister, of those now living, have any memory of “Aunt Charlotte.” Their im¬ pression is of a gentle, quiet woman, mothering well her little family. She died four days after the death of her little son, and later Mr. Lyman married her sister, Mary Stearns, who lovingly and faithfully cared for her sister’s children. She had been a nurse previous to her marriage and those Lymans who experienced “Aunt Mary’s” nursing in time of illness still remember the efficient but quiet care she gave. She was a typical New England woman in her home and in her world wide interest in Christian work.

Dea. Lauren D. Lyman was active in church and town affairs for many years. Before his marriage he taught school in various places. In the church he was a member of the pastor’s cabinet, the prudential committee, as long


as, if not longer than, any other man in its history. He was chosen deacon in 1870 and held that office till his death October 21, 1902. He served the town as selectman, school committee, and assessor, which last office he held for sev¬ eral terms. He was often placed on important committees, among them the committee on the building of the present town hall; on the celebration of the Centennial of the Decla¬ ration of Independence; on the establishment of Brookside Cemetery, not to mention other similar trusts.

MARY CHARLOTTE LYMAN, daughter of Lauren D., was an unusually attractive and capable girl. She had begun a course in the Easthampton high school when she was suddenly attacked by a disease which made her an in¬ valid as long as she lived.

SARAH ELIZABETH LYMAN, daughter of Lauren D., spent some time at Mt. Holyoke Seminary and taught some time in her home town. August 23, 1883, she was mar¬ ried to Rev. Charles W. Holbrook, a graduate of Am¬ herst College, 1880, and of Andover Theological Seminary, 1883. At the time of their marriage he was under appoint¬ ment of the A. B. C. F. M. as missionary to Natal, South Africa. They sailed for Natal, October 24, 1883, and were assigned to the station of Mapumulo, among the hills, ten miles from any white people. Here they staid nine years coming to America in September, 1892.

Children born in Africa:

Harold Lyman, b. June 12, 1885 Ruth Charlotte, b. Aug. 9, 1887 Annie Mary, b. Oct. 19, 1889 Agnes Fidelia, b. Feb. 1, 1892

Mr. Holbrook was unable to return to the work in Africa because of throat trouble. He took a medical course at Yale Medical School graduating in June, 1896. He settled in East Haven where he is still practicing medicine.

Twin boys were born there:

Richard Ford, b. May 26, 1899. Carl Tyler, b. May 26, 1899

Mrs. Holbrook was in demand as a missionary speaker for some years after her return, and for 22 years was presi¬ dent of the Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary So¬ ciety connected with the Congregational church in East Haven.

Harold Lyman Holbrook was graduated from the New


Haven High School in 1904; from the New York Trade School in 1909. He was an instructor in the David Rankin School of Mechanics, St. Louis, Missouri, 1911-14; instruc¬ tor in Pittsburg Public Schools, 1915-18; field secretary, Department of Vocational Guidance, 1918-19; assistant sec¬ retary U. S. Employment Service, 1919-20. He is now “State Supervisor of Industrial Education” for the state of Pennsylvania, also chairman of the “Committee on Guid¬ ance of the Department of Public Instruction.”

In the summer he lectures on “Guidance, Educational and Vocational” at some of the universities in the state.

He married Lucy Styring of Southington, Conn., a teacher in the East Haven Schools. Their home is in Progress, Pa.

Children: David Stearns, b. July 17, 1912 Margaret, b. March 16, 1917 Eleanor Louise, b. Jan. 25, 1921

Ruth Charlotte Holbrook attended Northfield Seminary 1903-05. She married Leopold Livingston Wilder, son of Rev. George A. Wilder of the Natal Mission, on June 30, 1910.

Mr. Wilder graduated from Williams College in 1907. He has been on the editorial staff of the Springfield Repub¬ lican and of the Evening Journal of Richmond, Va. In 1920 he went to Albany, N. Y., as executive secretary of the National Humane Society. He is a deacon in the Dutch Reformed Church in Delmar, N. Y., their home town.

Children: Cecil Lyman, b. Aug. 12, 1911 Ronald Livingston, b. July 16, 1915 Virginia Ruth, b. June 17, 1921

Annie Mary Holbrook was graduated from the New Haven high school, 1909; Pratt Institute, 1912 (normal Household Scientific Department). She did Social Service work in Salisbury, Conn., 1912-14; taugfft in high school, Ansonia, Conn., 1914-15 ; Torrington, Conn., 1915-17; Tren¬ ton, N. J., 1917-21; studied at Columbia University, 1921-22. She is now Home Demonstrator in Hartford Co., Maryland. Her residence is in Bel Air.

Agnes Fidelia Holbrook was graduated from the New Haven high school in 1910; from the normal school in 1912. After teaching four years, she was married August 16, 1916, to Harold Lord Hazeltine who was graduated


from Sheffeld Scientific School doing post graduate work two years. From 1916-20 he was instructor in the Indus¬ trial School of Arts at Trenton, N. T. He is now chief engineer of the Sterling Varnish Co. Their home is in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Children:

Ruth Ellsworth, b. May 17, 1917

Elizabeth Lord, b. Oct. 1, 1920

Richard Ford Holbrook was graduated from New Haven High School in 1917. He enlisted in U. S. Field Signal Service March, 1918. Tie was overseas six months; was honorably discharged February, 1919. He spent this time in a hospital near Liverpool, England. He had the misfortune to break his ankle on shipboard on the way over. During his convalescence he made himself so use¬ ful that he was not allowed to leave when his division came home. By giving some of his blood for an operation in transfusion of blood he was able to save the life of an¬ other soldier. In April, 1919, he entered the mechanical engineering department of Pittsburg University, from which he was graduated in 1923, taking a position with the Johns- Manville Asbestos Company. His residence is New York City.

Carl Tyler Holbrook enlisted in Yale Ambulance Unit (by special arrangement) while still in New Haven High School. He went to France in August, 1917. In No¬ vember after a serious operation in a hospital he was transferred to Ambulance Unit 624, a French Unit. He was in front line work with the French army. He was made honorary member of the class of 1894, Columbia University, in recognition of his “spendid services” as dri¬ ver of an ambulance donated by said class. He is now taking a medical course at Tufts Medical School.

He was married August 31, 1921, to Elsa Margaret Wade of Andover, Mass., a nurse in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. They have one child, Charles Tyler, b. April 14, 1923.


HENRY L. LYMAN AND GRAND DAUGHTER

HENRY LAUREN LYMAN, son of Lauren D., was educated in the public schools of Easthampton and at Willis- ton Seminary. His early schooling was in the brick schoolhouse on the edge of “Hannum’s pine woods,” in sight of Mt. Tom, the school which the seven children of Daniel and Sally Lyman had attended and at which the six children of Daniel Franklin Lyman and three of the six children of Lauren D. Lyman and two of the children of Horace S. Lyman had begun their education.

Times change, the brick schoolhouse is no more and the pine trees have for several years been scattered to the ends of the earth by the Diamond Match Company. “Henry Lyman,” said one of the teachers in the schoolhouse, a teacher of much experience, “is the most satisfactory pupil in all respects that I have ever taught.” He attended the high school and Williston Seminary. Though desiring a college education he felt that as he was the only survivor of his father’s four sons, the farm and the father had the prior claim. So for many years now he has been the host at the ancestral home. A worthy host he has been. Those of us who know by experience the hospitality which he and his have shown to all members of the Lyman family have happy memories of the hours spent under that roof. Henry Lyman has a passionate love for the beauties of nature, the devotion of many years’ companionship with Mt. Tom and Pomeroy’s Mt., and is kin to the birds which'flock about the old farm. Nowhere else do bobolinks so congregate and so


“It is an interesting experience,” said one cousin, “to ride to town with Henry. He stops here to leave a few flowers, there to inquire after a sick person, somewhere else to leave a few eggs or perhaps only a branch of laurel and everywhere he is welcomed as a friend.” Indeed, Henry has a genius for friendship.

He was deacon of the First Congregational Church for many years and after it was united with the Payson Church, he held the same office until 1922 in the united church.

September 12, 1889, he was married to Annie McMahon who had just returned from two years’ missionary work in Africa. She was a member of the missionary circle of Natal, South Africa, where Mrs. Holbrook and her husband were working.

Children: Lauren Dwight, b. April 24, 1891 Donald Stearns, b. April 28, 1893 Philip Henry, b. Sept. 1, 1895, d. Feb. 8, 1918 Annie Katherine, b. Dec. 29, 1898 Theodore Edwards, b. Dec. 29, 1898 Mrs. Lyman died Dec. 29, 1898, at the birth of her

twin children. Annie McMahon Lyman had been a genial hostess, a loving wife, a wise mother and a host of friends mourned the loss of a dear friend and felt deep sympathy for the devoted husband and father facing the future with five children under eight years of age.

In November, 1899, he married Mrs. Carrie Bond Clark, a teacher in the Easthampton schools and one of Annie’s intimate friends. She is active in church and social work, and she too has welcomed many of the Lyman clan to the old home.

Lauren Dwight Lyman, son of Henry L., was graduated from Williston Seminary in 1911.

After a time he entered Yale College where his course was nearly completed when he enlisted for the war in the Yale Ambulance Unit. He went to France in June, 1917, and remained in the service some months after the close of the war, coming home in 1919. He had always had an unusual gift of expression and this gift made the letters'^ home from France of such a character that the home papers were always ready to publish, and the friends eager to'read his vivid descriptions of France and of war experiences. He is now on the New York Times. Some of his articles are found in the magazine section of the Sunday Times.

June 29, 1921, he was married to Mabel Styring, whose


sister Lucy was already a member of the family circle hav¬

ing married Lauren’s cousin, Harold Lyman Holbrook.

They have one child:

Ellen Styring, b. June 12, 1922

Donald Stearns Lyman was in New Haven in charge

of the night freight work of a trolley company when we

entered the war. He entered the service as a private, but

was already a non-commissioned officer in an ambulance

corps, training at Allentown, Pa., when his brother Philip

was disabled by the accident which caused his death. Donald

was released to go to the aid of his father on the farm,

since two of his brothers were in the service. He staid on

the farm till his brother Theodore was discharged from the

army.

He was married to Pearl Smith, December 31, 1921.

He was in the employ of a trolley company in Reading, Pa.,

till March, 1923, but is now in Somerville, N. J.

Philip Henry Lyman was the home son. He attended

Mt. Hermon School for a time and then settled down at

home on the farm. August 9, 1917, he received an injury

to the spine while diving in the Manhan River. He was

taken to the Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. He lived

six months paralyzed below his shoulders. Though he

lacked sensation and the power of motion his mind was

clear and the weakness and suffering of the long months

were borne with wonderful patience. On February 8, 1918,

the struggle was ended and Philip went home.

Annie Katherine Lyman was graduated with high honors

from the Easthampton high school in 1917, being the salu-

tatorian of her class. She was graduated from Mt. Holyoke

College in 1921, taking honors in her special subject, biology.

She is now in the Presbyterian Hospital in New York train¬

ing for some branch of the work of nursing.

Theodore Edwards Lyman was for a time in the East¬

hampton high school. He was in railroad work when the

war broke out. He enlisted in the regular U. S. army in

May, 1917 in the cavalry.

He was in Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont till July, then


in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, for a year or more, then he

was transferred to Fort Myer, Virginia, where he served as

clerk in the post office department of the fort, making daily

trips to Washington. In June, 1919, his term of service

expired but he reenlisted for a year going with his troop to

Mowbray, California. He and another soldier made the

trip in a private horse car, caring for the “Coloners mount”

two horses sent for the Colonel’s use at Mowbray, but the

Colonel preferred his car which Theodore as Colonel’s or¬

derly drove for him all over California. Given a furlough

in March, 1920, he shipped as a seaman on a tanker going

to Seattle. He was discharged June, 1920, and was on the

farm with his father till the fall of 1922. He is now in

Rochester, N. Y., in the employ of a large dairy company.


JAMES HERVEY LYMAN AND DESCENDANTS

JAMES HERVEY LYMAN

JAMES HERVEY' LYMAN was married April 12, 1852, to Achsah Clapp, daughter of Levi Clapp. He went to the Clapp home and at the death of Levi Clapp became the owner of the farm on South Alain Street, Easthampton. He lived there until his death, May 7, 1893. Mrs. Achsah Lyman died Dec. 22, 1884. Mr. Lyman married Lucia Anne Clapp February 15, 1886. She survived him more than twenty years. Her death was on April 29, 1917.

There was one child by the first marriage.

Austin James, b. Jan. 21, 1855

Mr. Lyman was a successful farmer and much respected as a citizen. He served several years on the School Com¬ mittee and in early years taught winter schools.

AUSTIN JAMES LYMAN was far from physically strong but was mentally alert. He was a great reader, and took a keen interest in all matters affecting the welfare of state or nation. He was an invalid for several years before his death on June 3, 1914.

Air. Lyman was married June 9, 1880, to Alice So- phrohia Edwards, daughter of Dea. William Edwards of Westhampton. She was born April 5, 1858.

Their children were:

1. Sereno Austin, b. April 17, 1881, d. Aug. 26, 1894 2. James William, b. Aug. 21, 1882 3. Francis Edwards, b. Jan. 26, 1884 4. Melville Henry, b. Nov. 3, 1888


James William Lyman has stayed on the farm which his father owned and which had been in the family of the Clapp ancestors for generations.

He married Pearl Smith, Nov. 21, 1906.

Children:

Clarence Edwards, b. July 22, 1907 Louise Jeannette, b. Oct. 15, 1910 Ruth Alice, b. Oct. 22, 1912 Earl Brainerd, b. Sept. 25, 1914

Francis Edwards Lyman was graduated from Williston Seminary taking the valedictory in his class. He went into the telephone business and is now chief clerk in the office of the American Telephone Company at Milk Street, Boston. His home is in Winthrop, Mass. He has been a deacon in the Congregational Church at Winthrop for several years.

He married Clio Strong Wilder October 14, 1909. She was born May 28, 1882. She is the daughter of Rev. George A. Wilder, long a missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. in South Africa, and a sister of Leopold Wilder who married Ruth Holbrook.

Children:

1. Alice Clio, b. Sept. 14, 1910

2. Francis Edwards, Jr., b. May 6, 1914, d. Nov. 21,

1918

3. Constance Wilder, b. Oct. 22, 191.6

4. Helen Frances, b. June 26, 1920

Melville Henry Lyman was graduated from Williston Seminary. He spent some years of service in the Hampton Mills in Easthampton. He is now in cement construction work in connection with Ballinger of New York, and his home is in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

He married Julia Mann, born Dec. 11, 1888, on March 7, 1911.

Children:

Melville Henry, Jr., b. Jan. 14, 1913

Edith Jeannette, b. Feb. 24, 1920

ADDENDUM

It will be of interest to those whose history is. here told to

know something of the English and Continental ancestry of Richard

Lyman, the ancestor of all the Lymans in the United States and

Canada. For what is known we are indebted to Henry Alexander

Lyman, who lived near London ten years, during which he made

extensive investigations as to his ancestors in England, which is

our ancestry as well. He printed the results of his studies in an

elaborate chart which he put at the disposal of Dr. Lyman Coleman,

and of those who aided him in the preparation of the Lyman

Genealogy.

Richard Lyman’s father, Henry, was a cousin of Sir John

Leman, Lord Mayor of London in 1616. The ancestry of Henry

running back was John, Henry, Thomas (who married Elizabeth

Lambert), Salomon, John, John, Richard, Eldred, John, Richard,

Osbert.

Osbert was the son of a Saxon surnamed Leman, who is de¬

scribed in the “Domesday Book,” framed by the order of William

the Conqueror more than 850 years ago, as holding certain lands

“in parcenary,” that is in joint ownership, of King Edward. Harold,

the successor of Edward, deprived Leman of his lands. This Harold

was overthrown by William the Conqueror. The ancestry of the

Lymans is thus traced back to one Leman, who was a landholder

before 1066, more than 850 years ago. The grandchildren of Daniel

Lyman, in the 8th generation from Richard, are in the 20th from

this Leman.

Thomas Lyman, the great great grandfather of Richard Lyman,

the first Lyman in America, married Elizabeth Lambert, great

granddaughter of Sir William Lambert and Johanna, sister of Sir

Gilbert de Umfreville, Earl of Keyne. The following is the line

of Elizabeth Lambert backward, Elizabeth, Henry, Robert, Sir

William, Alan, Sir Nicholas, Sir Henry, Sir William, Sir Thomas,

Sir John, Sir Edward, Sir John, Sir Henry, Sir Fitzhugh, Sir Ra-

dulphus. This last was grandson of Lambert, Count of Lorraine,

and Mons. Sir Radulphus -was present with his kinsman, William

the Conqueror at the battle of Hastings in 1066. His wife was a

daughter of Sir Ralph de Toney, a Norman nobleman, and. one of

the chief generals at the battle of Hastings.

The following is the pedigree of Johanna de Umfreville, the

wife of Sir William Lambert. Johanna, Sir Thomas, Sir Thomas,

Gilbert, Gilbert, Earl of Angus, Gilbert, called the Famous Baron,

the flower and keeper of the northern parts of England, Sir Richard,

Robert, Sir Odowell, Robert, Gilbert, Sir Robert. This last was

Lord of Tours and of Viarn in Normandy, and was called “Robert

with a beard.” He was a kinsman of William the Conqueror, whom

he accompanied to England. The wife of Gilbert, Earl of Angus,

mentioned above, was Matilda, Countess of Angus, a lineal de¬

scendant of Malcolm III, King of Scotland. Children of Daniel

Lyman are thus descended from Sir Radulphus Lambert, and also

from Sir Robert de Umfreville, two knights who fought at the

battle of Hastings:

From Lady Johanna de Umfreville, who married Sir William

Lambert, we go back by the following line of descent: Sir Thomas

de Umfreville, Sir Thomas, Sir Robert, 2nd Earl of Angus, Sir

Gilbert (who married Matilda, descended from Malcolm III of

Scotland), Lad}^ Agnes Comyn, who married Gilbert de Umfreville,

Elizabeth de Quincy, Roger, Lady Margaret de Bellomont, Robert,

3rd Earl of Leicester, Robert, 2nd Earl of Leicester, Lord Justice

of England, Lady Isabel de Vermandois, who married Robert, first

Baron de Bellomont, created Earl of Leicester.

Lady Isabel . de Vermandois was 12th in descent from

Charlemagne, and from her were descended besides the Lyman

family in America, the following distinguished Americans, whose

descent from Lady Isabel is traced in different lines by David Starr

Jordan in an article in the Scientific Monthly, December, 1921.

Presidents of the United States: George Washington, Thomas

Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland,

Benjamin Harrison, Theodore Roosevelt. Presidents of Colleges:

The Dwights and Pres. Woolsey of Yale, Butler of Columbia, Eliot

of Harvard, Gilman of Johns Hopkins, Gates of Amherst, and

others. Besides these the descent of the following is traced back to

Isabel de Vermandois: Patrick Henry, Jonathan Edwards, Gen.

Grant, Robert E. Lee, Admiral Dewey (through the Lymans), Phil¬

lips Brooks, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John D. Rockefeller, J. Pier-

pont Morgan and others.

CORRECTIONS

Page 33. Last line to read 1844 for 1840.

Page 35. 23rd line—Addison b. Nov. 23, 1882.

Page 37. 9th line—Mr. Cox is teacher of higher mathe¬

matics and head of the Athletic Department in the Knoxville high school.

14th line—Emily Louise b. March 21, 1914.

Page 38. 17th line—Emma Theresa d. May 20, 1890. 18th line—Bruce Vickroy Hill.

Page 40. 27th line—“Rocky Mountain News” for “Den¬

ver News”.

Page 43. 43rd line—Chester Claremont b. May 20, 1890.

Page 44. 4th line—For William Laverne Jr. read Wil¬

liam Lyman.

5th line—Calvin Philip b. June 24, 1904.

Page 46. 1st line—William Camp for William Lyman. 15th line—Omit Jr.

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