Wendell Phillips ( 1811-1884 ), from a prominent Massachusetts family, in his teens was converted under the preaching of Lyman Beecher.

* 1863 – Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader ( b. 1775 )

* Lyman Beecher, Presbyterian

Americans such as Lyman Beecher, who was a Connecticut minister, had started to lecture his fellow citizens against all use of liquor in 1825.

* 1976 Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale ; lectures published in same year as Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

Dwight had a genius for recognizing able protégés — among them Lyman Beecher, Nathaniel W. Taylor, and Leonard Bacon, all of whom would become major religious leaders and theological innovators in the ante bellum decades.

She was the seventh of 13 children, born to outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxana ( Foote ), a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was only five years old.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati, Ohio is the former home of her father Lyman Beecher on the former campus of the Lane Seminary.

Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Henry was the eighth of thirteen children born to Lyman Beecher, a Presbyterian preacher from Boston.

The Beecher household was exemplary of the orthodox ministry that Lyman Beecher preached.

* Rourke, Constance Mayfield ; Trumpets of Jubilee: Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, Horace Greeley, P. T.

* Rourke, Constance Mayfield ; Trumpets of Jubilee: Henry Ward Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lyman Beecher, Horace Greeley, P. T.

* The Second Great Awakening in the 19th century in the United States, propagated by Francis Asbury, Charles Finney, Lyman Beecher, and others, which also emphasized the need for personal holiness and is characterized by the rise of evangelistic revival meetings.

* Lyman Beecher ( 1775 – 1865 )— abolitionist, father of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher

Lyman Abbott ( December 18, 1835 – October 22, 1922 ) was an American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author.

Lyman Abbott died on October 22, 1922 and was buried in the New Windsor Cemetery in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York.

* October 19 – Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Georgia ( 1783-1784 )( b. 1724 )

An estimated 100, 000 people attended his funeral on Sunday, October 30, 1897 where the Reverend Lyman Abbott delivered an address, " Henry George: A Remembrance ".

The Union Oil Company of California was founded on October 17, 1890, in Santa Paula, California, by Lyman Stewart, Thomas Bard, and Wallace Hardison.

Wayne Lyman Morse ( October 20, 1900July 22, 1974 ) was a politician and attorney from Oregon, United States, known for his proclivity for opposing his parties ' leadership, and specifically for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds.

As there was at that moment no governor general, on 23 October 1935, Howe and his Cabinet colleagues were sworn in by Sir Lyman Duff, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, serving as Administrator.

* October 21 – First meeting of the Advisory Committee on Uranium under Lyman James Briggs, authorised by President Roosevelt to oversee neutron experiments.

Richard Wall Lyman ( October 18, 1923 – May 27, 2012 ), the seventh president of Stanford University, was an American educator, historian, and professor.

Lyman Enos Knapp ( November 5, 1837 – October 9, 1904 ) was an American Republican politician who was the Governor of the District of Alaska from 1889 to 1893.

Later, Lyman returned to the LDS Church through rebaptism on October 27, 1954.

* Lyman H. Butterfield, Judge William Cooper ( 1754-1809 ): A Sketch of his Character and Accomplishment, October, 1949

* Lyman H. Butterfield, Cooper's Inheritance: The Otsego Country and its Founders, October, 1954.

On October 21, 1835, Mayor Theodore Lyman, Jr. gave temporary refuge to William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the abolitionist paper The Liberator, who was being chased by a violent mob.

When Josh Lyman was working for Hoynes, he vigorously encouraged the then-Senator to pick up his bullhorn and put the need for Social Security reform front and center in the presidential campaign, saying in October 1997 that not doing so would be like " running for president of the Walt Disney Corporation by saying you're gonna fix the rides at Epcot.

* Lyman H. Butterfield Judge William Cooper ( 1754-1809 ): A Sketch of his Character and Accomplishment, October, 1949.

* Lyman H. Butterfield Cooper's Inheritance: The Otsego Country and its Founders, October, 1954.

Lyman participated in the Battle of Crooked River, a skirmish between Latter Day Saints and a Missouri militia unit from Ray County, which occurred on 25 October 1838.

As a result of his failure to live up to his confession and apology, the church stripped Lyman of the Apostleship on October 6, 1867 ; he was excommunicated from the church on May 12, 1870.

Lyman Eugene Johnson ( October 24, 1811 – December 20, 1859 ) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Lyman Trumbull ( October 12, 1813 – June 25, 1896 ) was a United States Senator from Illinois during the American Civil War, and co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

* October 21: First meeting of the Uranium Committee, headed by Lyman Briggs of the National Bureau of Standards.

Lyman W. Young ( October 20, 1893 – February 12, 1984 ) was an American cartoonist who created the strip Tim Tyler's Luck.

* April 12 – Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence ( d. 1790 )

Lyman was excommunicated on November 12, 1943 at age 73.

* The Dick Powell Show playing " Dr. Lyman Savage " 12 February 1963

Lyman Hall ( April 12, 1724October 19, 1790 ), physician, clergyman, and statesman, was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Georgia.

He married on December 12, 1906 at Springfield, Massachusetts, Gertrude Louisa Besse, the daughter of Lyman Waterman Besse and Henrietta Louisa Segee.

One of the area's earliest soundings was obtained June 12, 1852 by Lt. S. P. Lee, U. S. Navy brig Dolphin, with a reading of at ( 26 ° 32 ' N, 60 ° 06 ' W ).< ref > The Deepest Sounding in the North Atlantic, J. Lyman, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.

Lyman was excommunicated on November 12, 1943 at age 73.

Young restored Lyman as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on August 12, 1844.

By direction of Church President Joseph F. Smith on January 12, 1909, Lyman was posthumously reinstated as a church member and an Apostle.

In Lyman's case, a list of 7 charges were presented to him by the Far West High Council on April 9, 1838, which included the charge of "... saying he would appeal the suit between him & Brother Phineas Young and take it out of the County ..." Lyman replied on April 12, that " I should not condescend to put my constitutional rights at issue upon so disrespectful a point, as to answer any of those other charges until that is withdrawn & until then shall withdraw myself from your society and fellowship.

Francis Marion Lyman ( 12 January 1840 – 18 November 1916 ) was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

Lyman Belding ( 12 June 1829-22 November 1917 ) was a prominent American ornithologist.