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Lyman Copeland Draper (September 4, 1815 – August 26, 1891) was a librarian and historian who served as secretary for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin. Draper also served as Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin from 1858 to 1860.
A bronze tablet was placed on Goodnow's grave by the Waukesha County Historical Society in 1934. [1] The inscription is, "Erected to the memory of / 1799 - Lyman Goodnow - 1884 / First conductor of Wisconsin's underground railroad / In 1842 he conveyed Caroline Quarrels, / an escaped slave, to Canada and freedom." [9]
Lyman was also active in the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Society of the Army of the Potomac, and the Military Historical Society of Massachusetts. Ted and Mimi's daughter Cora died in 1869 of a "brain fever." The couple subsequently raised two boys, Theodore IV and Henry. Theodore Lyman IV attained renown as a physicist.
Location of Lyman County in South Dakota. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lyman County, South Dakota.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lyman County, South Dakota, United States.
English: Historical marker commemorating Lyman's Wagon Train Battle; marker is located on south side of Texas Highway 33, near its junction with county road 18, in rural Hemphill County, Texas. The marker describes the battle as having taken place 2.5 miles south and 1.7 miles east.
The Lyman House Memorial Museum, also known as the Lyman Museum and Lyman House, is a Hilo, Hawaii-based natural history museum founded in 1931 in the Lyman family mission house, originally built in 1838. The main collections were moved to an adjacent modern building in the 1960s, while the house is open for tours as the island's oldest ...
Presbyterian minister, American Temperance Society co-founder [2] and leader. Beecher was born in New Haven, Connecticut , to David Beecher, a blacksmith, and Esther Hawley Lyman. His mother died shortly after his birth, and he was committed to the care of his uncle Lot Benton, as W. Bray, and at the age of eighteen entered Yale , graduating in ...
Lyman, along with Grantham, Lisbon, and eleven Vermont towns, was granted as compensation to General Phineas Lyman, a commander in the French and Indian War.According to the county gazetteer, "It was granted to Daniel Lyman and sixty-three others, November 10, 1761, its name being derived from the fact that eleven of the grantees bore the name of Lyman.