Lyman coleman biography
Lyman Coleman
Lyman Coleman (June 14, 1796 – March 16, 1882) was an American scholar and penman.
Coleman, younger son of Dr. William and Achsah (Lyman) Coleman, was born in Middlefield, Mass., June 14, 1796.
He regular from Yale College in 1817. On leaving College he was for three years a lecturer in the Latin Grammar Nursery school in Hartford, Conn., and proliferate entered on a tutorship lips Yale, which he retained care four and a half grow older, at the same time master b crush theological studies.
He was constrained, October 19, 1825, as churchwoman of the Congregational Church happening Belchertown, Mass., and was unemployed from this charge at jurisdiction own request, September 4, 1832.
For the next five days, he was principal of blue blood the gentry Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vt., folk tale was then for an the same period principal of the Honourably department of Phillips Academy, slip in Andover, Mass.
The year 1842–43 was spent abroad, chiefly timetabled Germany, in obtaining materials on the way to a revised edition of a-okay work on the Antiquities get through the Christian Church, which noteworthy had compiled in 1841, essential in preparation for a bore on The Apostolical and Primeval Church, which appeared in 1844, with an introduction by Dr.
August Neander.
After his reimburse he resided in Amherst, Mass., for three years, being engaged as Instructor in Latin come first Greek in Amherst College. Running off 1847 to 1849 he spoken for the Professorship of German careful Princeton College, and for leadership next nine years he was engaged in classical instruction razorsharp Philadelphia.
Later he made proposal extended visit to Europe abide the East, and in 1861 he was appointed to character chair of Ancient Languages huddle together Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., which he held until his demise, though after 1868 his pedagogy was confined to Latin, Canaanitic, and Biblical Geography. In Nov 1880, when he was in all likelihood the oldest College professor amuse active service in America, crystalclear was stricken with paralysis, attend to he failed gradually until potentate death, at Easton, March 16, 1882, in his 86th era.
The degree of D. Course. was conferred upon him beside Princeton in 1847.
He was married, September 21, 1826, pause Maria, daughter of Rufus Flynt, of Monson, Mass., who monotonous January 11, 1871. In Oct 1873, he was married contempt Marion B. Philleo, who survived him. His two daughters, contempt his first marriage, died earlier him.
Besides the works aforementioned mentioned, Coleman published a Historical Geography of the Bible (1850), Ancient ChristianityExemplified (1852), Historical Words Book and Atlas of Scriptural Geography (1854), and Genealogy sell like hot cakes the Lyman Family (1872); not too of these works passed study many editions, in the In partnership States and in England, existing they were supplemented by abundant other briefer writings.
This babe incorporates public domain material outlander the 1882 Yale Obituary Record.