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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsTheodore LYMAN
(1833-1897)
LYMAN, Theodore, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Waltham, Mass., August
23, 1833; was educated by private tutors; studied in Europe
1847-1849; was graduated from Harvard University in 1855 and from
the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1858;
served during the Civil War as lieutenant colonel and volunteer
aide-de-camp on the staff of Major General Meade from September 2,
1863, to April 20, 1865; member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences; trustee of the
Peabody Education Fund; one of the State fishery commissioners
1865-1882; overseer of Harvard University 1868-1880; elected as an
Independent Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4,
1883-March 3, 1885); retired on account of ill health; died in
Nahant, Mass., September 9, 1897; interment in Mount Auburn
Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
Bibliography
Lyman, Theodore. With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to
Appomattox. Letters Selected and Edited by George R. Agassiz;
Introduction to the Bison Book edition by Brooks D. Simpson.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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