Frederick S. Lyman
| Frederick Schwartz Lyman | |
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Frederick Schwartz Lyman (left) with his brothers Henry Munson and David Brainerd
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| Born |
July 25, 1837 Hilo, Hawaii |
| Died | April 14, 1918 (aged 80) |
| Children | 6 |
| Parent(s) |
David Belden Lyman Sarah Joiner Lyman |
Frederick Schwartz Lyman (July 25, 1837 – April 14, 1918) was a surveyor, rancher, judge, and politician on Hawaiʻi Island.
Frederick Schwartz Lyman was born July 25, 1837, in Hilo, Hawaii. His middle name is sometimes spelled "Swartz". His father was David Belden Lyman (1803–1868) and mother was Sarah Joiner Lyman (1805–1885). The couple were early missionaries who founded Hilo Boarding School. His boyhood home is now the Lyman House Memorial Museum. He attended Punahou School (known as Oahu College at the time) from 1850 through 1860. He and schoolmate Samuel Thomas Alexander left briefly to seek their fortunes in California, but soon returned after finding the California Gold Rush had already run its course. In July 1857 he worked as tax assessor for Hawaiʻi Island. He continued working as surveyor and tax assessor during school vacations and after graduation. He was required to record people's ages for the land they owned, but since ancient Hawaii did not use the Christian calendar, he used oral tradition calibrated with a list of major events. One of these was the unusually explosive eruption of Kīlauea known as Keonehelelei, "the falling sands".
He married Isabella Chamberlain (1838–1901), daughter of Levi Chamberlain, another missionary, on February 16, 1861 and had six children. Isabella's childhood home is now the Mission Houses Museum. They moved to a ranch to raise various livestock such as sheep and goats at Keaīwa in the remote Kaʻū district 19°13′18″N 155°27′37″W / 19.22167°N 155.46028°W to raise a family.Lady Franklin was a guest during her search for her husband, the lost explorer Sir John Franklin. Mark Twain was a guest on his 1866 visit. Lyman became a judge, first a district magistrate in Kaʻū in 1867. However, a series of disasters struck the otherwise quiet bucolic area in 1868.
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