John Lyman was born in Tooele, Utah Territory, on 24 September 1880 to Francis Marion Lyman and Clara Callister. He married Zella Brown in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 15 October 1908. He worked as a civil engineer and surveyor. Lyman moved to California in 1944 and worked in the grocery business. He died in San Bernardino on 15 July 1951.^[1]