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Lyman (name)
The name Lyman has several origins including as an English topographical name, a Dutch name derived from a Germanic personal name, and an American name derived from the German Leimann or Leinemann. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Lyman Abbott (1835–1922), American theologian and author * Lyman E. Barnes (1855–1904), American politician *Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919), American author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels * Lyman Beecher (1775–1863), Presbyterian clergyman and leader of the temperance movement * Lyman Bostock (1950–1978), American baseball player *Lyman Bostock Sr. (1918–2005), American baseball player *Lyman Drake (1852–1932), American baseball player * Lyman Duff (1865–1955), eighth Chief Justice of Canada * Lyman W. Emmons (1885–1955), American businessman and politician *Lyman J. Gage (1836–1927), American financier and Presidential Cabinet officer *Lyman Gilmore (1874–1951), aviation pioneer * Lyman Hall (1724� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyman Abbott
Lyman J. Abbott (December 18, 1835 – October 22, 1922) was an American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. Biography Early years Lyman J. Abbott was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts on December 18, 1835, the son of the prolific author, educator and historian Jacob Abbott, and his mother being Harriet Vaughan. Abbott grew up in Farmington, Maine and later in New York City. Abbott's ancestors were from England, and came to America roughly twenty years after Plymouth Rock. He graduated from the New York University in 1853, where he was a member of the Eucleian Society, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1856. Abbott soon abandoned the legal profession, however, and after studying theology with his uncle, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 1860. He was married October 14, 1857, to Abby F., daughter of Hannibal Hamlin of Boston, Mass. Career He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Terre Haute, India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyman Bradford Smith
Lyman Bradford Smith (September 11, 1904 – May 4, 1997) was an American botanist. Smith was born in Winchester, Massachusetts. He studied botany during the 1920s at Harvard University and received his PhD from Harvard in 1930. Between 1928 and 1929, he worked for the first time in Brazil. Most of his life's work came to involve the taxonomy of the flowering plants of South America, in particular the bromeliads (''Bromeliaceae''). Smith worked on the Bromeliaceae for the North American Flora published by the American botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, volume 19, no. 2 (1938). Smith was a world authority on '' Begoniaceae'' and also worked with ''Velloziaceae Velloziaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants. The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Pandanales. Relationships and evolution By contrast to oth ...'' and numerous other plant families. He was a curator in the Smithsonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abe Lyman
Abe Lyman (August 4, 1897 – October 23, 1957) was a popular bandleader from the 1920s to the 1940s. He made recordings, appeared in films and provided the music for numerous radio shows, including '' Your Hit Parade''. His name at birth was Abraham Simon. He and his brother, Mike, changed their last name to Lyman because they both thought it sounded better. Abe learned to play the drums when he was young, and at the age of 14 he had a job as a drummer in a Chicago café. Around 1919, he was regularly playing music with two other notable future big band leaders, Henry Halstead and Gus Arnheim, in California. In Los Angeles Mike Lyman opened the Sunset, a night club popular with such film stars as Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. When Abe's nine-piece band first played at the Sunset, it was a success, but the club closed after celebrities signed contracts stating they were not to be seen at clubs. For an engagement at the Coco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Ray Lyman Wilbur (April 13, 1875 – June 26, 1949) was an American medical doctor who served as the third president of Stanford University and was the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior. Early life Wilbur was born in Boonesboro, Iowa, the son of attorney and businessman Dwight Locke Wilbur and the former Edna Maria Lyman. He was raised with a brother, Curtis D. Wilbur, who served as the U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Calvin Coolidge, and was a judge of the Supreme Court of California. The Wilbur family moved to Riverside, California, when Ray Lyman was twelve.Ray L. Wilbur Dies at Stanford at 74, The New York Times, June 27, 1949 Wilbur graduated from Riverside High School, then studied at Stanford University, receiving a B.A. degree in 1896 and an M.A. degree in 1897. He then studied at Cooper Medical College in San Francisco (then of the University of California, San Francisco, now the medical school of Stanford), receiving a Doctor of Medicin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lyman Smith
John Lyman Smith (November 17, 1828 – February 21, 1898) was an American politician and Mormon missionary. He served as a member of the Utah Territory's Legislative Assembly's House of Representatives for Iron County, Utah, from 1852 to 1853, and the Great Salt Lake County, Utah, from 1853 to 1855. Cousin of the founder of the Latter Day Saint Movement, Joseph Smith, Smith was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), who traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with his family and other Mormon pioneers in 1846. His father, John Smith, served as the fourth Presiding Patriarch for the LDS Church from 1847 to 1854. Additionally, he served two missions as the mission president for the LDS Church in Switzerland and Italy from May 1855 to June 1858 and September 1860 to December 1863, respectively. After his missions, he served in various civic and ecclesiastical positions in Utah. Biography John Lyman Smith was born on November 17, 1828, in Potsdam, New York, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyman Young
Lyman W. Young (October 20, 1893 – February 12, 1984) was an American cartoonist who created the strip ''Tim Tyler's Luck''. His younger brother, Chic Young, was the creator of '' Blondie''. Like his brother, Lyman Young was encouraged to do artwork by his mother, who was a painter. After Young studied at the Chicago Art Institute and served in World War I, he worked as a salesman. He began his career as a cartoonist in 1924 by stepping in to draw C. W. Kahles' comic strip ''The Kelly Kids''. In 1927, he created his own strip, ''The Kid Sister'', a spin-off of ''The Kelly Kids''. ''Tim Tyler's Luck'' Young launched ''Tim Tyler's Luck'' in 1928, and in 1935, he added a topper strip '. Young employed several artists, some of whom became famous and successful with their own strips. The illustrators included Alex Raymond, Burne Hogarth, Clark Haas, Nat Edson and Tom Massey. Tony DiPreta began his career doing lettering on the strip. Young lived in Greenwich, Connecticut. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyman Wight
Lyman Wight (May 9, 1796 – March 31, 1858) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. He was the leader of the Latter Day Saints in Daviess County, Missouri, in 1838. In 1841, he was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. After the death of Joseph Smith resulted in a succession crisis, Wight led his own break-off group of Latter Day Saints to Texas, where they created a settlement. While in Texas, Wight broke with the main body of the group led by Brigham Young. Wight was ordained president of his own church, but he later sided with the claims of William Smith, and eventually of Joseph Smith III. After his death, most of the "Wightites" (as members of this church were called) joined with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church). Early life Lyman Wight was born to Levi Wight and Sarah Corton on May 9, 1796, in Fairfield, New York. He fought in the War of 1812. On January 5, 1823, he married Harriet Benton in He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyman White
Lyman Dan White Jr. (born January 3, 1959) is a former American football linebacker. White was drafted in the second round by the Atlanta Falcons out of Louisiana State University in the 1981 NFL Draft The 1981 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 28–29, 1981, at the New York S .... References External linksNFL.com player page 1959 births Living people [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyman Ward (actor)
Lyman Ward (born June 21, 1941) is a Canadian actor best known for his roles in ''Creature'' (1984), ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' (1986), and '' Milk and Honey'' (1988). Life and career Ward was born and raised in Saint John, New Brunswick and graduated from St. Malachy's Memorial High School in the class of 1959, and then in 1963 from St. Thomas University which was located at the time in Miramichi, New Brunswick before relocating to Fredericton in 1964. He appeared on the first episode of ''Laverne & Shirley'' as Tad Schotz, but is most noted for playing Ferris Bueller's father in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off'' (1986). In 1990, Ward was cast as Jim Walsh in the pilot of the show ''Beverly Hills, 90210''. Producers later recast the role and his scenes were cut and reshot with James Eckhouse. In 2001, he made a cameo appearance in the movie '' Not Another Teen Movie'' as Mr. Wyler, spoofing his role in ''Ferris Bueller's Day Off''. Ward also played a minor role in '' Planes, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyman Walker
Lyman Walker (May 30, 1799October 16, 1886) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician. He was a member of the Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly, representing Brown, Door, and Kewaunee counties. He also served 13 years as district attorney of Kewaunee County. Biography Born in Tully, New York, Walker was a lawyer. He served as Tully town supervisor from 1834 to 1836 and as deputy sheriff for Onondaga County, New York, from 1828 to 1834. He moved to Ohio, in 1842 and was appointed postmaster at Cochranton by President Franklin Pierce, and then at Milan by President James Polk. In 1855, Walker moved to Anhapee, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. In Kewaunee County, he became active with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. In 1856, Kewaunee County held its first elections for state offices and elected Louis Van Dycke as district attorney without opposition. Van Dycke, however, was not a lawyer, and as a result, the county contracted with lawyers to represent the district a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyman Trumbull
Lyman Trumbull (October 12, 1813 – June 25, 1896) was a lawyer, judge, and United States Senator from Illinois and the co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Born in Colchester, Connecticut, Trumbull established a law practice in Greenville, Georgia, before moving to Alton, Illinois, in 1837. He served as the Illinois Secretary of State from 1841 to 1843 and as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1848 to 1853. He was elected to the Senate in 1855 and became a member of the Republican Party. As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1861 to 1873, he co-wrote the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States. In the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, Trumbull voted to acquit Johnson despite heavy pressure from other Republican senators. He was a candidate for the presidential nomination at the 1872 Liberal Republican convention but the fledgling party nominated Horace Greeley inste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyman Truman
Lyman Truman (March 2, 1806 – March 24, 1881) was an American merchant, banker and politician from New York. Life He was the son of Aaron Truman (1785–1823) and Experience (Park) Truman (1782–1844). by Ebenezer Mack Treman & Murray E. Poole (Ithaca NY, 1901; pg. 92 and 178ff) He was born in that part of the Town of Spencer which in 1811 was separated as the Town of Candor, in Tioga County. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
