Researching Horace Lyman
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 152 people with the Lyman surname? In that year Lyman was ranked number 3427 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Horace means "Hour in Time" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Horace Lyman on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Horace Lyman and the Lyman Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 356 people with the Lyman surname in the UK? Lyman is now ranked number 3705 for popularity in the UK. |
Lyman Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 15191 people with the Lyman surname in the USA? Lyman is ranked number 152 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Horace Lyman
Horace Lyman
Horace Lyman (November 16, 1815 – March 31, 1887) was a reverend and professor of mathematics in the U.S. state of Oregon.
He was born in Massachusetts, and came to Oregon by way of New York and Cape Horn in October 1848. He married Mary Dennison the next month. He established a school in Portland in 1849, and helped establish the Hillsboro School District in Hillsboro in 1851. He was a founder of Portland's First Congregational Church in June 1851. He was founding secretary of LaCreole Academic Institutue near Dallas, Oregon in 1856.
Lyman served as Hillsboro's first commissioner, and later its school superintendent. He later taught math at Pacific University in Forest Grove, where he died in 1887.
His son, Horace Sumner Lyman, was a prominent journalist, historian, and educator.
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