Horace Lyman |
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| Born | November 16, 1815
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| Died | March 31, 1887 (1887-04-01) (aged 71)
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| Occupation(s) | Reverend, professor |
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| Family | Horace Sumner Lyman (son) |
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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]
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