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Horace Sumner Lyman

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Horace Sumner Lyman
BornDecember 18, 1855
DiedDecember 22, 1904 (1904-12-23) (aged 49)
Occupation(s)Journalist, historian, educator
FamilyHorace Lyman (father)

Horace Sumner Lyman (December 18, 1855 – December 22, 1904) was a prominent journalist, historian, and educator in the U.S. state of Oregon.[1] His father, Horace Lyman, was an Oregon pioneer in 1848.

Lyman served as editor of the Portland Pacific Express starting in 1885[2] and the Prohibition Star beginning in 1887.[1] He contributed a number of firsthand accounts of Oregon pioneers to the Oregon Historical Quarterly, and published a history of the state in four volumes.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c "Horace S. Lyman (obituary)". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 6. 1905.
  2. ^ wikisource:en:History of Oregon Newspapers/The Portland Telegram