Horace Lyman (November 16, 1815 – March 31, 1887) was an American reverend and professor of mathematics in the U.S. state of

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. Lyman was born in Massachusetts, and moved to Oregon by way of

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and

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in October 1848. He married Mary Dennison the next month. He established a school in

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in 1849, and helped establish the

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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

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in 1856. Lyman served as Hillsboro's first commissioner, and later its

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. He later taught mathematics at

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in Forest Grove, where he died in 1887. Lyman's son, Horace Sumner Lyman, was a prominent journalist, historian, and educator.

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Transactions of the Fourteenth Annual Reunion of the Oregon Pioneer Association
(1886) *
letter to the ''Oregonian''
1852 * * 1815 births 1887 deaths 19th-century American clergy Clergy from Oregon Educators from Oregon People from Hillsboro, Oregon Pacific University faculty People from Forest Grove, Oregon People from Easthampton, Massachusetts Williams College alumni {{Oregon-bio-stub