New-York tribune., 1872-01-29
OBITUARY.
JOSEPH .. LYMAN.

| II becomes our painful duty to announce the miH
fortune TIE TRIBUNE has sustained In the death oil
| Joseph B. Lyman, Agricultural Editor OF this jour
nal. He died yesterday morning. at his residence in
Richmond Hill, Long Island, and was buried las!
night at Jamaica. We mourn in him most amia.
ble able, and faithful associate and all the friends
of enlightened and progressive. Agriculture Will ind
| his loss an irreparable one
Mr. Lyman was born in Massachusetts,, and gradu.
ated at Yale College. He then studied law, and went
to New Orleans to practice his profession, in which
be had gained respectable position at the breaking
| out of the war. He then came North, and lived for
several years in Stamford, Connecticut. While here
he and his wife, together wrote "Ibs
Philosophy of Housekeeping" and contributed
articles of social and literary charac
ter to various newspapers. These experiments
essays brought him into communication with New.
York journalism, and he came to this city to begin
the useful and successful career which has been sud
denly cut short by his death. He acted for about
two years as Agricultural Editor of The WO,h neIt
became Managing Editor of Uedh ana BoRG
from which position he came to THE TRIBUNE, where
he filed for the last four years of his life, with IN
usual energy and Intelligence. the chair Of ATielL
tural Editor.
in the course of his professional life he Travelled
extensively in the South and West and his cOnscr
entiousness and sagacty made bis letters especially
valuable. He was a prominent member of the
Farmers Club and also of the Rural Club and wa
connected in an honorary capacity with numer
GUS Horticultural and Agricultural Societies Ib'
Farmers Club afforded him cOngenlal mean
of dilfusng practical knowledge on current subjects
He possessed the true spirit of teacher and gave
as careful attention to the inquiry on some eleueD'
tary fact from an unknown tier in tho Far "eS'
sl,n IN
teres,iDg questions of an educated NSsoeiat.
Thi, club owes largely itsl Importance and usefuf
ness to his Jealous cooperation While never OBJ
tr,lsivo he had always something new or practies
to say on what was under discussion. His acquar
tance with the improved agriculture of New-Ens
land the more extensive tillage Of the West, OF th
less divcrsifed system of the South enabled bin
to render his replies of practical value in each Tal
cular case He carefully condensed each days pro
ceedings and made ont report IN the lucid es9
tylewhich is familiar TO the readers of The WKESh
tribune He understood in an emlnen
derree the true interests Of agriculture. h
constantly impressed on farmers the necessH
of sustaining home manufactures Of dlyeIshy~s
their products and of generously supporting e'ep
movement by which the marvellous power oi sS'Vr
alton could be employed for the public go'd ~
was an eaay and fOrcible speaker, but never 'pVM
EXCEPT upon subjects with which he was thcrOusnp
conversant. lie had q quite unusual capacity
work, in matters which interested him. ana n"'' n,
several posthumous works on agriculture III "'"
approaching completion LIS,
Ii in his relations with the public he was eOh'',.
tious and meriorlous, in his private life ne "s
gether admirable. lie was a devoted Chris'i'h
WAYS foremost in all good works in his neis"S
hood. and his unobtrusive charity was hii''"J
by his means His wife, o lady equally HlS.'"s,
forher qualities and her talents, the kate n
whose Diary in Hearth and Home was read wiz" SId
interest by all housewives. Throughout his MN,
life worked by his side with the most ','' -
devotion. A young and promising iann' ADA
children are left to mourn their sharp anu
bereavement. ,,risd
Mr.. Lyman had just completed anu o' ,haA
house at Richmond Ill., TO the building .dG
he had given much of his time and tho"e us 80
ing the past year lie was still young ,enups
looking forward to many years of that mus 'hoUa
of all enjoyments which comes nvI v,as vOrS
and beneficial work. But, in the touep%s Ia ,ss
of tho Spanish proverb "The house Is sor AID
tho hearse is at the door," II will be wen xisbs
ma II. when our summons comes 1t mus .h sssl
record made up of so little harm and 80 ~Jcsephp
as this nodeat AID faithful woIAingn'
LYmal,