. Historical encyclopedia of Illinois. ORRIS BISSELL DODGE. four years a member of the City Council. assisted in establishing the Dixon Pub-lic Library in 1895, and has been President ofthe Board of Directors since that time. In 1900he erected and donated to the city the librarybuildins now in use. HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY. 725 GEORGE ALEXANDER LYMAN. Postmaster,Amboy. Illinois; born in Winchester, N. 2(ith. 1838; educated in the public schoolsof his native town, and at Northfield Institute(now. School), Northfield, Mass. In removed to Bradford Township. Lee County
. Historical encyclopedia of Illinois. ORRIS BISSELL DODGE. four years a member of the City Council. assisted in establishing the Dixon Pub-lic Library in 1895, and has been President ofthe Board of Directors since that time. In 1900he erected and donated to the city the librarybuildins now in use. HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY. 725 GEORGE ALEXANDER LYMAN. Postmaster,Amboy. Illinois; born in Winchester, N. 2(ith. 1838; educated in the public schoolsof his native town, and at Northfield Institute(now. School), Northfield, Mass. In removed to Bradford Township. Lee , with his fathers family, who settled onthe farm he now owns. In 1888 he bought theAmboy Journal. of which he is now editorand proprietor; was appointed Postmaster ofAmboy. March 1. 1898. and is now (January).1904) serving his second term. He has been amember of the Congregational Church in LeeCenter Amboy since ISfiO; is an influentialRepublican, serving tor many years as a mem-. GEORGE ALEXANDER LYMAN. ber of the Repuljlican County Committee, andfor four years as secretary of the Lyman has been actively identified, as aneditor and otherwise, with the religious, edu-cational and political progress of his county,and this has been recognized by his election tomembership in The American Institute ofCivics, organized in 1885 to inspire and per-petuate the spirit of intelligence, and unselfishand incorruptible patriotism: is a member ofthe Order of Runnymede by virtue of directdescent from Saier de Quincy. one of the twenty-five English Barons who compelledKing John to sign the Magna Charta in 1215;is also a member of the Society of ColonialWars, of the sons of the American Revolution,the Knights of the Globe, and of the MasonicFraternity. The Lyman family trace their descent in anunbroken line from Albert the Great, first Kingof England, and through his line of ancestorsbacl^ to Woden or Odin, King of North Europein the third century, about tlie year
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