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| Affiliation | Anti-Masonic |
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| Name | Darius Lyman |
| Address |
Cleveland, Ohio , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
July 19, 1789
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| Died | December 13, 1867
(78 years)
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| Info | DARIUS LYMAN (deceased), born at Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn., July 19,
1789, died at Cleveland, Ohio, December 13, 1867, aged seventy-six years,
five months. He graduated at Williams College in the class of 1810. Soon
after he entered the law school at Litchfield, then under the charge of
Judge Gould, where by diligent application to his studies he soon won the
respect of his distinguished teacher and all those who were associated with
him. After leaving Litchfield Law School he went to Pittsburgh, Penn., and
in order to more fully perfect his legal studies he spent several months in
the law office of Hon Henry Baldwin, subsequently one of the Judges of the
Supreme Court of the United States. In the spring of 1814 he came to this
county, was admitted to the bar, and established himself permanently in his
profession in Ravenna. He was soon appointed Prosecuting Attorney of the
county, and in 1816 he was elected to the State Senate, where he served two
terms ending in 1832. In the fall of the latter year he was the
anti-Masonic candidate for Governor, and was defeated by Robert Lucas by a
small majority. Judge Lyman has ever been regarded one of the pioneer
lawyers of Portage County. Although not a brilliant advocate, his thorough
knowledge of legal principles, his unswerving integrity and love of justice
gave him great influence with both court and jury, which made him a
formidable competitor. For some years he was in partnership with the late
Hon. Luther Day. Judge Lyman acquired an extensive practice in Portage and
adjoining counties. His well-balanced, clear and discriminating mind,
inflexible uprightness and unsullied purity of heart won the confidence and
esteem of all who knew him. He was an ardent friend of education, and for
many years an efficient member of the Board of Trustees of the Western
Reserve College. He early identified himself with the Free Soil party, and
in 1850 was elected to the State Senate on that ticket. This was his last
service as legislator. In 1855 he was elected Probate Judge of Portage
County, was re-elected and occupied the position until 1864. After retiring
from the Judgeship re removed to Cleveland, Ohio, where he lived to the time
of his death. Our subject was twice married. He was the father of six
children, some of them dying young. His eldest son, Prof. Darius Lyman, for
nearly twenty years has held an important position in the Treasury
Department at Washington, D.C. Henry D. Lyman, his grandson, is now Second
Assistant Postmaster-General. His daughter, Laura, is the widow of the late
Hon. William S.C. Otis, of Cleveland, Ohio. The other surviving children
are Mrs. Mary L. Hood, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Mrs. Anna L. Woodworth, of
St. Louis, Mo. In all his relations as a citizen Judge Lyman was a worthy
exemplar; opposed to all forms of oppression, he was ever guided by the
highest principles of honor and rectitude; his heart and hands were ever
ready to do all in his power to preserve peace and order in the community
and to improve and elevate society.
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