The Edmund R. Lyman Diary documents his school budget as well as information on his colleagues and experiences. Some of the years are incomplete.
Scope and Content Notes
The OSU copy of Lyman's diary is on microfilm. The original diary was microfilmed by the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Biographical / Historical Notes
Edmund Renselaer Lyman was born January 6, 1873, to Mary J. and Edmund Lyman in Colorado. He attended Oregon Agricultural College for approximately two years from 1889 to 1891 as part of a Mechanical Course.
Lyman graduated from Stanford with a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry in 1896, and continued to attend graduate classes at the University of California. He worked as an instructor of chemistry and as a chemist in the public sector, before serving as director of the Chinese Polytechnic Institute in Shanghai in 1899. He later worked as a chemist in Portland in the early 20th century before moving to the Seattle area and working as a chemist for the United States Department of Agriculture.
He married Alice Maria Bell September 29, 1902, in Shanghai. The couple had four children, two sons, Robert and Harold, and two daughters, Jenevive and Mildred.
Lyman passed away in 1919 in Washington and is buried in Seattle.
