Horace Lyman

Horace Lyman (November 16, 1815 – March 31, 1887) was a reverend and professor of mathematics in the U.S. state of Oregon.[1]

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

  1. ↑ "Biography of Prof. Horace Lyman – Access Genealogy". accessgenealogy.com. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  2. 1 2 3 https://digitalcollections.ohs.org/lyman-reverend-horace-2
  3. ↑ Cartwright, Charlotte M. (1903). "Glimpses of Early Days in Oregon". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 4.
  4. ↑ Horner, John (1919). Oregon: Her history, her great men, her literature. p. 165.
  5. ↑ Philpott, Betty (October 19, 1976). "Schools and Churches: Hillsboro school began in one-room log cabin in 1854". The Hillsboro Argus. pp. 10–11.
  6. ↑ "Lyman, Reverend Horace - OHS Digital Collections". digitalcollections.ohs.org. Oregon Historical Society. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "Horace S. Lyman". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 6. 1905.
  • 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.



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