Joseph S. Lyman

Biography

Joseph S. Lyman (1785–1821) belonged to a generation shaped by the War of 1812 and the growth of early American towns, and his life would have been influenced by the political and economic currents that touched every citizen of his era.

Details of his daily work may now be scarce, yet those who pass through Federal Street Cemetery can still see his name among the stones, a prompt to remember the many citizens who kept daily life running in that period.