Horace Lyman (November 16, 1815 – March 31, 1887) was a reverend and professor of mathematics in the U.S. state of Oregon.[1]
Horace Lyman | |
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| Born | November 16, 1815 |
| Died | March 31, 1887 (aged 71) |
| Occupation(s) | Reverend, professor |
| Family | Horace Sumner Lyman (son) |
He was born in Massachusetts, and came to Oregon by way of New York and Cape Horn in October 1848.[2] He married Mary Dennison the next month.[2] He established a school in Portland in 1849,[3] and helped establish the Hillsboro School District in Hillsboro in 1851. He was a founder of Portland's First Congregational Church in June 1851.[2] He was founding secretary of LaCreole Academic Institutue near Dallas, Oregon in 1856.[4]
Lyman served as Hillsboro's first commissioner, and later its school superintendent.[5] He later taught math at Pacific University in Forest Grove, where he died in 1887.[6]
His son, Horace Sumner Lyman, was a prominent journalist, historian, and educator.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Biography of Prof. Horace Lyman – Access Genealogy". accessgenealogy.com. 24 May 2011. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
- ^ a b c "Lyman, Reverend Horace - OHS Digital Collections". digitalcollections.ohs.org. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
- ^ Cartwright, Charlotte M. (1903). . Oregon Historical Quarterly. 4.
- ^ Horner, John (1919). . p. 165.
- ^ Philpott, Betty (October 19, 1976). "Schools and Churches: Hillsboro school began in one-room log cabin in 1854". The Hillsboro Argus. pp. 10–11.
- ^ "Lyman, Reverend Horace - OHS Digital Collections". digitalcollections.ohs.org. Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "Horace S. Lyman (obituary)". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 6. 1905.
External links
edit- Transactions of the Fourteenth Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association (1886)
- "Archives West: Lyman Family Papers, 1846 to 1883". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
- letter to the Oregonian, 1852
- "Letter from Horace Lyman on traveling, offering housing, cold weather, and paying debt · Pacific University Archives Exhibits". exhibits.lib.pacificu.edu. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
- Victor, Frances Fuller; Bancroft, Hubert Howe. . History of Oregon. Vol. 2.
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