The Newtown bee., 1904-12-09
LITCHFlELD COUNTY.
NEW PRESTON.

HON CHARLES P. LYMAN.-A BRIEF SKETCH OF ONE WHOM ALL KES-
 PECTED. IN BUSINESS
 AND POLITICAL CIRCLES OF THE STATE.-MANY TIMES HONORED BY THE POLITICAL PARTY OF HIS CHOICE. HAD SERVED TOWN, SENATORIAL DISTRICT, COUNTY AND STATE FAITH FULLY AND WELL.
 Charles P. Lyman died last week
 Thursday morniDg at his home in New
 Preston. The illness was the result of cerebro spinal meningitis and was of Marcy of New Preston and Thomas
 H. Russell of New Haven exercised
 all their skill but could not control the
 disease. MT Lyman was born March
 9, 1858, and his birthplace was in the
 home where he died. He was the only issue of Dr Edward P. and Sarah Lem
 mon Lyman. His grandfather was
 Dr Norman Lyman, who moved from
 Glastonbury to Litchfield county many father of the deceased, was graduate
 of Yale and a practicing physician in New Preston and vicinity for forty years, being an unusually progressive and skillful member of his profession. Charles P. Lyman was educated in the common schools of Washington, at the famous Gunnery school in Washington and at Golden Hill Seminary in Bridge
 port. At the age of IS years he went to Memphis, Tenn, where he became | associated with the. large wholesale
 house of Lennon, Gale $ Co.,, the head
 of which was his uncle, Hon Henry Lennon, at that time and for many years thereafter most prominent business man of Tennessee. MT Lyman continued his connection with the firm of Lennon, Gale & Co., until his fathers death in 1882, when he re- turned to his home in New Preston
 and decided to make his future home
 in the house of his birth. In the fol- store adjoining the Lyman homestead
 and from that time until his death he
 conducted a general merchandising business. In 1883 he married Nellie l.. Sperry, daughter of w. D. and Louisa M. 'Sperry of New Preston. In 1883, 1884 and+ 1897, he represented Wash ingtOn in the general assembly. In 1890 he was elected state senator in the old 2Oth district by 200 majority, he and Hon O. B. King of Watertown being the only Democrats who were lican district. He was very prominent in legislative work and was member of the special committee appointed to report to the general assembly on the
 matter of good roads. His father was
 an earnest Republican but MT Lyman
 always voted the Democratic ticket and was consistent advocate of Dem- ocratic principles. From 1893 to 1895 MT Lyman served on the board of coun-
 ty commissioners for Litchfed coun- ty. He served his town as Selectman
 and for several years was a member of
 the local school board. In 1896 he was delegate to the Democratic national convention at Chicago. In 1898 and 1900 he was Democratic candidate for congress in the Fourth district,
 running against Hon B. J. Hill, the Republican nominee, and cutting down
 the Republican majority in nearly every town. During the Cleveland ad- ministratiOn he was postmaster at New
 Preston. He was a member of the last Democratic state convention and would
 have been the Democratic nominee for
 comptroller had he been willing to ac- cept the honor. During the last two
 or three years his health had not been
 good and he refrained from as active participation in politics as had been his practice for more than a dozen years. MT Lyman was man of un-