LYMAN COLEMAN was born at Middlefield, Massachussetts., on 14 June 14, 1796. After graduation from Yale in 1817, he became principal of the Latin Grammar School at Hartford and then tutored at Yale until 1825. He was a Congregationalist pastor in Belchertown, Mass. for seven years. He traveled for two years in the early 1830's. After trying a variety of positions, and authoring a number of books, (see bibliography) he became professor of Latin in Lafayette College in 1862. Lyman Coleman died at Easton, Pennsylvania on 16 March 1882.

Source: The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, III., ed. by Samuel Macauley Jackson with Charles Colebrook Sherman and George William Gilmore, (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1909), p. 154.