David Brainerd Lyman

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David Brainerd Lyman

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Birthplace: Kingdom of Hawaii
Death: April 08, 1914 (74)
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
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Son of Rev David Belden Lyman, Rev. and Sarah Lyman
Husband of Mary Elizabeth Cossitt
Father of David Brainard Lyman, Jr; Frank Cossitt Lyman; Mary Elizabeth Lyman and Paul Henry Lyman
Brother of Frederick Schwartz Lyman; Rufus Anderson Lyman; Francis O. Lyman; Emma Wilcox; Henry M. Lyman and 2 others

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About David Brainerd Lyman

David Brainerd Lyman, son of David Belden Lyman (1803–1868), an early American missionary to Hawaii, was born March 27, 1840 and named for missionary David Brainerd. He moved from Hawaii to the U.S. and served in the Civil War, graduated from Yale in 1864 and Harvard law school in 1866. He married Mary Cossitt in 1870 and became a lawyer in Chicago where he helped develop the village of La Grange, Illinois, serving as the first village attorney. He named a street "Waiola Avenue" which means "Water of Life" in the Hawaiian language. He returned to visit Hawaii in 1910, and died April 8, 1914 in Chicago.

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David Brainerd Lyman's Timeline

1840
March 27, 1840
Kingdom of Hawaii
1871
July 11, 1871
1873
March 7, 1873
1874
December 14, 1874
1877
February 16, 1877
1914
April 8, 1914
Age 74
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States