born in Pittsburg, Pa., February 15, I857.
The youngest son of Rt. Rev. Theodore B. Lyman, who was for twenty years Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of North Carolina and for four years in charge of the Episcopal churches on the Continent of Europe.
Mr. Lyman was educated at Higate Public School, London, Eng., and graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, 1878, and Columbia University Law School in 1880, and admitted to the bar in Hartford county, Conn., in 1881.
In 1882 he was married to Miss Julia Ellsworth, daughter of Dr. P. W. Ellsworth and the granddaughter of Gov Ellsworth and great granddaughter of Chief Justice Ellsworth and Noah Webster, Lexicographer. Besides being an able business man and a genial, popular gentleman, he is an accomplished linguist having resided in Europe for fifteen years perfecting himself in many languages, speaking and writing French, German and Italian fluently.
For the past twenty years Mr. Lyman has been actively engaged in the real estate business in Asheville and vicinity in addition to the practice of his profession. He has a charming residence on the corner of Merrimon avenue and Chestnut street, which for many years has been the center of social functions.
He is the father of one child, a handsome boy, Ellsworth, now at the preparatory school of Asheville, whence he will go to Yale University from which a great many of his ancestors were graduated. Mr. Lyman is noted for his public-spirited co-operation for anything that tends towards the upbuilding of the community in which he has made his home, as well as for his many social accomplishments which have made him a personal favorite with a wide acquaintanceship.
The youngest son of Rt. Rev. Theodore B. Lyman, who was for twenty years Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of North Carolina and for four years in charge of the Episcopal churches on the Continent of Europe.
Mr. Lyman was educated at Higate Public School, London, Eng., and graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, 1878, and Columbia University Law School in 1880, and admitted to the bar in Hartford county, Conn., in 1881.
In 1882 he was married to Miss Julia Ellsworth, daughter of Dr. P. W. Ellsworth and the granddaughter of Gov Ellsworth and great granddaughter of Chief Justice Ellsworth and Noah Webster, Lexicographer. Besides being an able business man and a genial, popular gentleman, he is an accomplished linguist having resided in Europe for fifteen years perfecting himself in many languages, speaking and writing French, German and Italian fluently.
For the past twenty years Mr. Lyman has been actively engaged in the real estate business in Asheville and vicinity in addition to the practice of his profession. He has a charming residence on the corner of Merrimon avenue and Chestnut street, which for many years has been the center of social functions.
He is the father of one child, a handsome boy, Ellsworth, now at the preparatory school of Asheville, whence he will go to Yale University from which a great many of his ancestors were graduated. Mr. Lyman is noted for his public-spirited co-operation for anything that tends towards the upbuilding of the community in which he has made his home, as well as for his many social accomplishments which have made him a personal favorite with a wide acquaintanceship.
born in Pittsburg, Pa., February 15, I857.
The youngest son of Rt. Rev. Theodore B. Lyman, who was for twenty years Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of North Carolina and for four years in charge of the Episcopal churches on the Continent of Europe.
Mr. Lyman was educated at Higate Public School, London, Eng., and graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, 1878, and Columbia University Law School in 1880, and admitted to the bar in Hartford county, Conn., in 1881.
In 1882 he was married to Miss Julia Ellsworth, daughter of Dr. P. W. Ellsworth and the granddaughter of Gov Ellsworth and great granddaughter of Chief Justice Ellsworth and Noah Webster, Lexicographer. Besides being an able business man and a genial, popular gentleman, he is an accomplished linguist having resided in Europe for fifteen years perfecting himself in many languages, speaking and writing French, German and Italian fluently.
For the past twenty years Mr. Lyman has been actively engaged in the real estate business in Asheville and vicinity in addition to the practice of his profession. He has a charming residence on the corner of Merrimon avenue and Chestnut street, which for many years has been the center of social functions.
He is the father of one child, a handsome boy, Ellsworth, now at the preparatory school of Asheville, whence he will go to Yale University from which a great many of his ancestors were graduated. Mr. Lyman is noted for his public-spirited co-operation for anything that tends towards the upbuilding of the community in which he has made his home, as well as for his many social accomplishments which have made him a personal favorite with a wide acquaintanceship.
The youngest son of Rt. Rev. Theodore B. Lyman, who was for twenty years Bishop of the Episcopal diocese of North Carolina and for four years in charge of the Episcopal churches on the Continent of Europe.
Mr. Lyman was educated at Higate Public School, London, Eng., and graduated from Trinity College, Hartford, 1878, and Columbia University Law School in 1880, and admitted to the bar in Hartford county, Conn., in 1881.
In 1882 he was married to Miss Julia Ellsworth, daughter of Dr. P. W. Ellsworth and the granddaughter of Gov Ellsworth and great granddaughter of Chief Justice Ellsworth and Noah Webster, Lexicographer. Besides being an able business man and a genial, popular gentleman, he is an accomplished linguist having resided in Europe for fifteen years perfecting himself in many languages, speaking and writing French, German and Italian fluently.
For the past twenty years Mr. Lyman has been actively engaged in the real estate business in Asheville and vicinity in addition to the practice of his profession. He has a charming residence on the corner of Merrimon avenue and Chestnut street, which for many years has been the center of social functions.
He is the father of one child, a handsome boy, Ellsworth, now at the preparatory school of Asheville, whence he will go to Yale University from which a great many of his ancestors were graduated. Mr. Lyman is noted for his public-spirited co-operation for anything that tends towards the upbuilding of the community in which he has made his home, as well as for his many social accomplishments which have made him a personal favorite with a wide acquaintanceship.
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