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Biographical Sketch of Horace S. Lyman.
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Oregon School Exhibits for the Lewis and Clark Fair, when his health, usually good, failed. After a short illness he died on December 22, 1904. He left a considerable mass of unpublished writings. When these are arranged and published we shall have a complete basis for an estimate of his genius and industry. As it is we know that his was a nature transcendently gentle, brave, and noble. What he wrought exhibited richness and depth of thought and was pervaded with the spirit of the highest humanity. It lives and grows in the hearts of all who knew him.