Hart Lyman (1851-1927)

He was born at Plymouth, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale where he edited the Literary Magazine. He continued his studies for a year at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg, and then studied law for a year in Minneapolis before becoming an editorial writer on the New York Tribune in 1876. He remained with the paper for 37-years and succeeded Whitelaw Reid (the successor of Horace Greeley) as Editor-in-Chief on Reid's appointment as the U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. In 1881, he married Marion, daughter of Samuel Whittemore Torrey, Real Estate Developer, of Lakewood, New Jersey, and they were the parents of three children (listed).