Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-17

town like Columbia to celebrate TWO
golden weddings within about one
week. both couples having been mar
minister. Mr. and Mrs. James p. Lit
tie passed their hftieth anniversary l.
Sept, IL and on Sunday, Sept ID, Judge
and Mrs. Dwight A. Lyman VIII OBJ
serve the flftieth anniversary of their
marriage.
The anniversary Of Judge and Mrs.
LYMAN will be observed in a quiet |
way at their new home about one
half a mile west or Columbia Green:
No Invitations have been sent out and
whatever recognition Of the event will |
be in q wholly informal way: 1t is |
quite probable that the long married
couple will attend service at the VII |
lage church in the morning and from
| 2 o'clock in the afternoon to 10 o'clock
| in the evening they will be at home
| to all their friends and in this public
way they desire to extend most cor
dial invitation to all their friends to
call and extend congratulations and
best wishes.
Judge Lyman and Mrs. Lyman
| (whose maiden name was Abbie Mar
garet Hunt) were married at the home
| of the brides mother on Chestnut HILL
Sept. 10, 1865, the ceremony being
| performed by the Rev. Frederick D.
Avery in the presence Of two witness
! es, one of whom, Mrs. Martha Manley
| Fuller, is still living in Middletown.
/ The other two present were the off,
| ciating clergyman and the brides
mother, both of whom passed on a
few years ago, having reached the re-
1 markable age Of more than 80 years.
Judge and Mrs. Lyman continued to
reside in Columbia until the spring of
1871 when they removed to what Is
now Versailles in the town Of Sprague
! and in 1873 they removed to Whitman
tic, where they have since resided,
until about two years ago, when they
made their legal residence again In
Columbia, although they had spent the
years. Columbia will probably be their
home for the rest of their lives.
Mrs. Lyman Is q native OF that
town, the daughter Of Arson and Bet
}eey Amy (Manley) Hunt and was born
4 April 16. 1847; her whole life has been
devoted to her home and the care OF
her children and aged mother. Four
children have been born to the union,
all Of whom are stil living. They are
Mrs. Lizzie Doten Gyman) Tharp Of
Louisville, KY, Miss Lillian Lyman,
who resides at home and Hollis Hunt
Lyman and Samuel Edison Lyman OF
Willimantic; there are three grand
children, Lyman Tharp, Hardy Tharp
and Lillian Margaret Tharp, Of Louis
vile. KY.
Judge Lyman, the son of Samuel
Edison Lyman, was born in a log hut
. | in the town of Barrie, Orleans coun-
ty. N Y, about 80 miles west of
Rochester, the place now being known
= as Eagle Harbor on the Erie canal
The date was November IL, 1913 He
| | is Hneal descendant of Richard Ly-
u man, who emigrated from the parish
of Ongar, Essex county, England, IT
August 1881, first settling near Bos-
e ton, but in 1885 removing to Hart
d ford, one of the first settlers Of thai
\ town, His farm was bounded by Main
Buckingham, Washington and Wads-
9 worth streets; he was buried IN the
rS4 old Center church cemetery and his
r4name is among the first settlers or
1.-The monument to them in that buria
. fplace. Judge Lyman is in the eight
= 1Eeneration from the original Richard
II Judge Lyman's mother was Fanny
Charlotte CLARK Lyman and boil
Fl parentarand ancestors for several gen
|" eratfof1kwere natives of Columbi a.
JudRS Lyman removed from New
York state with his parents in thu
= sprfn&sof 1850 and in the fall OF thu
l. same year his father purchased tn
s farm now occupied by Edward 2. Ly
y man, a. short distance south from
> Judge Iyman.s present home. Judg
3 Lyman remained a&shome and worket
on his fathers farm summers, attend
. ing the Center district school in tn
winter, until the spring of 1863, whel
;. he went to Hartford. Here he work
% ed in Colts willow ware factory 70
- two years, thoroughly learning tn
=, trade of making Willow ware furn1
I, ture and at present he is probably tn
:, only person in Connecticut who is abb
;s to make that class Of furniture, al
- though it is more than 40 years sine
"A he has actively engaged at that worl
n After he was married he lived o
farm working much at his trad
,e until the spring of 1871 when he en-
Ia gagged in the railroad business. serv
- ing as station agent at Versailles an
~ freight clerk at Willimantic for the oil
- H. R. & F. railroad, until the win
n ter of 1873. His next business activit
~ was as travelling salesman for tn
~ American Basket Co. of New Britai
and the Williams Manufacturing Co. {
. Northampton, Mass. In the sprin
of 1877 he went to Baltimore and en-
81 gagged as instructor in basket maxim
81 over convicts in the Maryland peni
y tertiary, where he remained for on
- year and then returned to whitman
tic, where his family had remainei
~ and took the superintendency of til
Windham almshouse, Mrs. Lyman act
ing as matron. ~ g..
They remained there twelve year
~ being replaced by a democrat, whic
Judge Lyman was not. While at til
@ Windham almshouse Mr. Lyman too
a keen interest in the administratio
81 of the pauper laws of the state, bein
81 the instigator of many reforms bot
q IN the paper laws and their admins
81 tration. He was looked upon as or
M of the best posted men along tho:
U lines in the state. About one ye;
after they went there the building W.
All burned and during their administT;
ton all the present buildings on Il
place were planned and erected.
In 1890 Mr.. Lyman was appointt
census enumeration for Willimant
and in the fall he took the manufa
turing statistics for Tolland and VIM
ham counties for the 1890 census.
In the spring of 1891 he engaged
the fire insurance business and abo
the same time, in connection wi
George z. Stiles, he was instrument
in the organization of the Willimani
Building and Loan association and W
N elected it's first secretary and &C
lector, a position he hts held ev
since. now serving his twenty if
year.
Judge Lyman has been a memb
lof the Masonic fraternity for Al yea
and both himself and wife are six
degree members of the Grange.
During the summer Of 1891 he W
engaged as the correspondent for
IN Hartford paper and for several yes
he covered the entire eastern mart