Theodore Lyman

Theodore Lyman II (September 20, 1792 – July 18, 1849) was an American philanthropist, politician, and author, born in Boston, the son of Theodore Lyman I and Lydia Pickering Williams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1810, visited Europe (1812–14), studied law, and with Edward Everett, revisited Europe in 1817–19. From 1819 to 1822 he was an aide to John Brooks, the Governor of Massachusetts. He became brigadier general of militia in 1823, and from 1820 to 1825 he served in the Massachusetts General Court.

Mayor of Boston In 1833 Lyman defeated William Sullivan, the Whig candidate, A few weeks later, during an anti-abolitionist riot, he rescued William Lloyd Garrison from the mob and confined him to jail to save his life.

Lyman was a benefactor of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and of the Farm School and was the founder of the State Reform School for Boys, a reform school in Westborough, to which he gave $72,000.

Writings Three Weeks in Paris (1814) The Political State of Italy (1820) Account of the Hartford Convention (1823); in which he defended those who were concerned in that convention as an expression of harbored hatred for both Presidents, John Adams and J.Q. Adams. (SEE Essex Junto) The Diplomacy of the United States with Foreign Nations (1828); a work which is still valuable for the period covered.