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been with our friend, that I have felt the same sorrow I should have 

 felt had he been an intimate friend. I knew him as a journalist. As 

 such he was honest and conscientious. Knowing him first as an 

 agricultural editor, and at the same time knowing him to have been 

 a lawyer and not a practical agriculturist, I had some prejudice against 

 him on that account. I soon found that he had a mind capable of 

 discriminating and choosing facts, and a journalistic method of getting 

 at the kernel of things which he wanted to present ; and that he 

 could learn and make use of information about agricultural matters 

 in such a way as made him of great use to farmers for whom he 

 wrote. Thus his writings were valuable as containing information 

 gathered laboriously from all sources. I think of him, as I sat here 

 by his side two weeks ago, when I made use of the expression, " though 

 lost to sight to memory dear," and this sentiment now springs to my 

 mind as I think of our lost associate. 



Col. M. C. Weld — Mr. Lyman and I were schoolboys together. 

 Afterward I knew him in college, and later I watched his successful 

 career in New Orleans, where he practiced law. We were never 

 intimate, but I always desired to know him better. As long ago as 

 I can remember, he was the same amiable yet forcible character. In 

 regard to his practical knowledge of agriculture, he was, I think, 

 underrated. His early life was passed upon a farm, and he had quick 

 perceptions, and, as has been remarked, he knew where to find what 

 was necessary to know, and this is a very valuable trait in one who 

 teaches others. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller — I had no particular personal acquaintance with 

 Mr. Lyman, and the highest compliment I can pay him is, that as a 

 journalist I always watched and read whatever he had to say, and 

 always with advantage. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble — So much has been said that I feel I can 

 only indorse it all. This is a sad occasion, and we mourn one well 

 worthy of our respect. I have traveled with Mr. Lyman frequently, 

 and have ever been more and more impressed with his integrity of 

 character and devotion to the cause of agriculture. 



Mr. A. B. Crandell — I knew our absent friend intimately since 

 1864:. It has been said that to know a man well, it is necessary to 

 follow him home. I had peculiar facilities for acquaintance with Mr. 

 Lyman in his domestic relations. Here he was wholly admirable. I 

 never met a man whose conduct as husband and father was deserving 

 of greater praise. His devotion to his wife, after a dozen years 

 -of marriage, was something unusual in these days of divorce and 



