THEODORE LYMAN (MASSACHUSETTS)

'Theodore Lyman' was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Waltham on August 23, 1833. He was educated by private tutors and studied in Europe. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855 and from the University's Lawrence Scientific School in 1858. Lyman served during the Civil War as lieutenant colonel and volunteer aide-de-camp on the staff of Major General Meade from September 2, 1863, to April 20, 1865. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences, a trustee of the Peabody Education Fund, one of the State fishery commissioners,and an overseer of Harvard.
Lyman was elected as an Independent Republican to the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1885). He retired on account of ill health,and died in Nahant on September 9, 1897. His interment was in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.

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Lyman, Theodore. With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox. Letters Selected and Edited by George R. Agassiz; Introduction to the Bison Book edition by Brooks D. Simpson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

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