Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Lyman (Jonathan Frederick) Diaries,
- Dates:
- 1890-1897
- Creators:
- J. Fred Lyman
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Lyman (Jonathan Frederick) Diaries, Mss204, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Background
- Scope and content:
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The three Lyman Diaries chronicle Jonathan F. Lyman's experiences as a youth in San Jose, Calif.; as a student at the University of the Pacific (1890-1892); and, as a young husband working as a carpenter in Stockton, Calif. (1895-1897).
- Biographical / historical:
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Jonathan F. Lyman (b. 1871) grew up in San Jose (Calif.) where he worked as a janitor, soda jerk, clerk and carpenter while briefly enrolled as a pre-ministerial student at the University of the Pacific (1890-92). Following his marriage to Belle Moyle, a UOP Academy student (1893), Lyman quit school and subsequently moved to Stockton (1895) where he worked as a carpenter until about 1899. He, his, wife, and his five children were living in San Mateo in 1900. The 1910 census indicates that his wife is a widow living in Turlock.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
- Physical description:
- 0.25 linear ft.
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1998
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: October 1998.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], Lyman (Jonathan Frederick) Diaries, Mss204, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
- Location of this collection:
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University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University LibraryStockton, CA 95211, US
- Contact:
- (209) 946-2404