Lyman Gibbons

Lyman Gibbons (June 3, 1808 – June 27, 1879) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1852 to 1854.

Early life, education and career Born in Dormansville or Westerlo, New York to John and Elizabeth (Hall) Gibbons, Lyman Gibbons graduated from Amherst College in 1830, and spent six months working at Vermont's Chelsea Academy before reading law with Jacob Collamer, then a Vermont state court judge, in Royalton, Vermont. Gibbons returned to Monroe County to work as a planter. In 1861, he represented Monroe County as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1861, which passed the ordinances of secession. After the end of the American Civil War, he resumed his legal practice.

Personal life Gibbons married the daughter of James Dellet, Emma Eugenia Dellet, in 1853. They had one child, a daughter. Gibbons died of heart disease at his summer home in Claiborne, Alabama.