THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 30. MARCH, 1902. No. 3. 



I 1 * ]Y[en}oriani. 



HENRY M. LYMAN. 



DIED JAN. 4, 1902. AGED 73 YEARS. 



Henry Martyfl Lyman was born in Easthampton, Mass., 3ept. 

 13, 1828, being of English ancestry, a descendant of Richard Ly- 

 man, who came to America in 1630. Mr. Lyman received his edu- 

 cation in the public schools and at Williston Seminary, in East- 

 hampton. At the age of fourteen his father died, and he, with the 

 assistance of his mother and older brother, carried on the New 

 England farm. 



In 1850 Mr. Lyman landed at Taylor's Falls, Minn,, remaining" 

 a year and a half, after which he returned to his old home in Massa- 

 chusetts. In the spring of 1853 he again set his face toward the 

 west, landing at St. Anthony, Minn. Here he purchased an ox 

 team, a wagon and some lumber, and drove west, landing on the 

 afternoon of May 18th at the present site of the Lyman home- 

 stead, in Chanhassen, Carver Co., Minn. He set up the few boards 

 he had brought with him against his wagon and called that home. 

 Shortly after he built a log house of tamarack, broke land and 

 raised vegetables, gr^in, etc. He returned to Massachusetts in the 

 fall of 1855, and was married to Martha C. Pomeroy, of Southamp- 

 ton, April 13, 1856. 



Mr. and Mrs. Lyman now came west to try their fortunes in the 

 new territory, taking up housekeeping in the little log house, pre- 

 viously built by Mr. Lyman. 



Many will remember Mr. Lyman as being postmaster for a num- 



