Lyman Coleman

Lyman Coleman (June 14, 1796 – March 16, 1882) was an American scholar and author. Coleman, younger son of Dr. William and Achsah (Lyman) Coleman, was born in Middlefield, Mass., June 14, 1796. He graduated from Yale College in 1817. On leaving College he was for three years a teacher in the Latin Grammar School in Hartford, Conn., and then entered on a tutorship at Yale, which he retained for four and a half years, at the same time pursuing theological studies. He was ordained, October 19, 1825, as pastor of the Congregational Church in Belchertown, Mass., and was dismissed from this charge at his own request, September 4, 1832. For the next five years, he was principal of the Burr Seminary, Manchester, Vt., and was then for an equal period principal of the English department of Phillips Academy, in Andover, Mass.