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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Theodore Lyman (1792–1849)

Lyman, Theodore. An American philanthropist; born in Boston, Feb. 20, 1792; died in Brookline, MA, July 18, 1849. He founded the State Reform School, to which he gave $72,500. Among his works are: ‘Three Weeks in Paris’ (1814); ‘The Political State of Italy’ (1820); ‘Account of the Hartford Convention’ (1823); and ‘The Diplomacy of the United States with Foreign Nations’ (2 vols., 1828).