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illustrious persons outside of his own profession. His retentive memory 

 was stored with reminiscences of personal intercourse with them, that at 

 times made his conversation of surpassing interest. 



His health during many years of his life was not good, and he was 

 obliged to consider himself an invalid ; but nevertheless his power of 

 mental exertion remained apparently undiminished, and continued active 

 until his last illness. He died at Cambridge, April 17, 1898, in conse- 

 quence of an attack of pneumonia from which his enfeebled constitution 

 was unable to rally. Had he lived three days more, he would have 

 reached his seventy-third birthday. 



Alpheus Hyatt. 



THEODORE LYMAN. 



Resident Fellow Class II., Section 3, November, 1S59. — Treasurer 1877-1883.— 



Secretary of Committee on tlie 100th Anniversary of tlie 



Founding of tlie Academy. 



Theodore Lyman was born in Waltham, IMass,, on the 23d of 

 August, 1833, and died at Nahant, Mass., on the 9th of September, 1897. 

 He was of the seventh generation in descent from Richard Lyman, the 

 ancestor of the family, who came to this country in 1631 in the same 

 ship with John Eliot, and the third successive bearer of the name 

 Theodore Lyman. 



The first Theodore Lyman, the grandfather of our late associate, came 

 from old York, Maine, to Boston, and, as a successful merchant in this 

 city, laid the foundation of the family fortunes. 



His son, the second Theodore Lyman, studied in Europe in his early 

 life, and, returning, served in the State Legislature from 1820 to 1825. 

 He was Mayor of Boston in 1834-35, and while in this oflice defended 

 William liloyd Garrison from personal violence at the hands of a mob of 

 respectable rioters to whom the fearless course of the abolitionist leader 

 had given grave offence. Mayor Lyman secured the foundation of the 

 Massachusetts State Reform School at Westboro, now appropriately known 

 as the Lyman School, in grateful recognition of his endowment of the in- 

 stitution with a fund amounting to $72,500. He was a generous friend 

 to the Massachusetts Historical Society, and to the Boston Farm School, 

 an institution over which his- son presided for several years. He was the 

 author of works upon " The Political State of Italy " and " The Diplomacy 

 of the United States," of small volumes entitled " Rambles in Italy " and 

 " A few Weeks in Paris during the Residence of the Allied Sovereigns 

 in that City," and of a Fourth of July Oration delivered in 1820. 



