History of Chester, (Hampden County) Massachusetts United States of America

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Alonzo Clark, educator, was born in Chester, Mass., March 1, 1807; son of Spencer and Hadassah (Bardwell) Clark. He was graduated at Williams college in 1828, and received the degree of M.D. from the College of physicians and surgeons in New York city in 1835, and from the Berkshire medical college in 1843. From 1841 to 1854 he was professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the Vermont medical college, and held the chair of materia medica at the Berkshire medical college, and that of physiology and pathology at the College of physicians and surgeons in New York city, 1848-55. From 1855 to 1882 he was professor of pathology and practical medicine in the latter institution, which in 1861 became the medical department of Columbia college. In 1882 he was made professor emeritus, and from 1875 to 1884 he was president of the faculty of medicine. He was elected president of the New York state medical society in 1853. He received the degree of A.M. from Dartmouth in 1844, and that of LL. D. from the University of Vermont in 1853. He died in New York city, Sept. 13, 1887.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Joseph Bardwell Lyman, agricultural editor, was born in Chester, Mass., Oct. 6, 1829; son of Timothy and Experience (Bardwell) Lyman and grandson of Timothy and Dorothy (Kinney) Lyman. He was graduated from Yale in 1850; taught school in the south, 1850-53; was graduated from the law department of the University of Louisiana, LL.B., 1856, and settled in practice in New Orleans. In March, 1863, he served as commissary in the Confederate army to avoid conscription, and in September of that year he joined his family in Boston, removing to New York in 1864 and thence in 1865 to Stamford, Conn., where he devoted himself to horticulture and literary work. He removed to New York city and became agricultural editor of the World in 1867. He was managing editor of the Hearth and Home in 1868 and was a member of the editorial staff of the New York Tribune, 1868-72. He was a member of the Farmers' club; the Rural club; an honorary member of many horticultural associations and a manager of the American institute. He was married July 14, 1858, to Laura Elizabeth Baker who was born in Kent's Hill, Maine, April 2, 1831, and was graduated from Wesleyan academy, Mass., in 1849. She published a series of articles in the Hearth and Home under the pen name "Kate Hunnibee," and was elected president of the Woman's Physiological society of Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1875, and edited the "Home Interest" department in the New York Tribune, 1869-87, and the Dining Room Magazine, 1876-77. In conjunction with his wife, Mr. Lyman wrote The Philosophy of Housekeeping (1867). He is the author of: Resources of the Pacific States (1865); Women of the War (1866), and Cotton Culture (1867). He died in Richmond Hill, Long Island, N.Y., Jan. 28, 1872.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor