Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Lyman (Jonathan Frederick) Diaries,
Date (inclusive): 1890-1897
Collection number: Mss204
Creator:
J. Fred Lyman
Extent: 0.25 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Administrative Information
Access
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
Access Points
personal name
Lyman, Jonathan Frederick (b. 1871)
personal name
Lyman, Anna Moyle
corporate name
Lengfeld (A.L.) Drugs (San Francisco, Calif.)
corporate name
Buell Lumber Company (Stockton, Calif.)
corporate name
University of the Pacific
subject
Education -California -History
subject
Drugstores -California -San Francisco
subject
Lumber-yards -California -Stockton
subject
Students -Diaries
subject
San Jose (Calif.) -Social life and customs
subject
Stockton (Calif.) -Social life and customs
Biography
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.
Scope and Content
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).
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