... whence his father, Henry D. Lyman, came in 1820 to Rochester, and worked on the first Erie canal acqueduct over the Genesee river which was built of brick. In 1824 he came to Portage, then Nunda, where he married in 1825 Sophia, daughter of Capt. Ira Buckman, a Revolutionary soldier. Children: Phebe A., Henry H., Charles P., Ira, Edwin, George and Martin Van Buren.