History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY 221
ferred by Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, and Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland. His birth occurred October
17, 1866, and on June 7, 1897, he married Miss Ethel Anna Skin-
ner, of Portland, Oregon. They have become the parents of
three children: Mary Ethel, born July 8, 1899; Ida Grace, whose
birth occurred on the 14th of April, 1902; and George Porter,
born in 1906. George Richard, the younger son of Mr. and Mrs.
George A. Lyman, was born December 1, 1871. He took the degrees
of A. B., M. A. and Ph. D. from Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and is now assistant professor of botany
in Dartmouth College, Hanover, New HampsMre. On June 23,
1903, he married ]\Iiss Fi'ances Ella Badger and they have become
the parents of one child, Mavis K. Lyman, bom October
16, 1907.
Mr. Lyman is a member of the Congregational church, is a
blue lodge Mason, and gives his political allegiance to the republican
party. He is a member of the Baronial Order of Runnymede,
the Society of Colonial Wars, and the Sons of the American
Revolution. He has been town clerk, assessor, justice of the
peace and township trustee; and since March 1, 1898, has served
as postmaster of Amboy, discharging his duties ina capable and
practical manner. His fourth term as postmaster will expire
April 25, 1914. During the half-centTiry he has lived in the community
he has done all in his powei' to promote its intei'ests and
his record is a credit to an honored and worthv name.
HERBERT W. HARMS.
Herbert W. Harms, identified with commei-cial interests in
Dixon as manager for the Wilbur Liunber Company, was born in
Lee county, Illinois, April 20, 1884, and is therefore still a young
man. His parents were Antone W. and Mary (Ahrens) Harms,
the foi'mer of whom was a son of Antone W. Harms, one of the
pioneer settlers in Lee county. Removing from the east to Illinois,
he settled in Palmyra township at a period when the work
of pro.gress and improvement seemed scarcely begun in this sec-
tion of the state. Since that time the name of Harms has figured
in connection with the upbuilding of the county and has always
been synonymous with progressive action and substantial im-
provement.