Almond H. Lyman, M. D., son of Dr. H. H. and Cornelia (Cowing) Lyman, was born in Hume April 9, 1861. He attended the village school at Hume, and the Geneseo Normal School. He read medicine with his father, and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Buffalo in 1884. Soon after he was resident physician to the Erie county jail, and was elected by the Erie county board of supervisors physician to the penitentiary in the fall of 1884. He has practiced in Hume, Caneadea and in Fillmore, where he is now located. He passed the fall and winter of 1894 and 5 in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving there the degree of M. D. In 1893 he was elected supervisor of Hume on the Democratic ticket. He was two years master of Lodge 359 F. & A. M. and belongs to Genesee River Chapter No. 152, R. A. M. and DeMolay commandery No. 22 K. T. He married Miss Josie Whalen of Caneadea.
