CHAPTER XXVI. 



BIOGRAPHICAL DATA OF OTIS J. P. LYMAN, 

 A PIONEER OF POTTER COUNTY, PENN- 

 SYLVANIA, WITH STORY OF TAKING 

 PIGEONS FOR NEW YORK 

 MARKETS 



(By John C. French) 



OTIS Jacob Palmer layman was born in the townshipl 

 of Roulette, Potter county, Pennsylvania, Nov-! 

 ember 6, 1836, and has resided in that vicinity all his 

 life. He was married, in 1860, to Rosella Sherwood, 

 daughter of Stephen Sherwood of the same place, and 

 raised a large family. He was the eleventh of twelve 

 children born to John Lyman and his wife, Lucretiaj 

 Palmer. His younger brother, Almeron N. Lyman,, 

 served in the Civil war, and died in Virginia, April 16, 

 1864. In the Lyman family, in the United States, 

 Otis J. P. is of the eighth generation, beginning with 

 Richard Lyman who resided at Charlestown, Mass., I 

 1631-1635, and later at Hartford, Conn. Tracing back-l 

 ward, he was preceded by John, 7 ; Major Isaac, 6 ; who 

 came to Potter county in 1804; Benjamin, 5; Isaac, 4;' 

 Richard, 3 ; Richard, 2 ; Richard, 1 ; according to th^ 

 chart prepared by Miss Julia E. Lyman of Hartford, 

 Conn., finished in 1870, after years of patient investi- 

 gation of family records and traditions. ; 

 In the spring of 1861 the Passenger Pigeons nest- 



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