General Counsel, New York Central Railroad
Centurion, 1921–1930
Born 8 April 1860 in New Orleans, Louisiana
Died 7 March 1930 in Mamaroneck, New York
Buried Putnam Cemetery
, Greenwich, Connecticut
Proposed by Jeremiah W. Jenks and Elmer Ellsworth Brown
Elected 5 November 1921 at age sixty-one
Century Memorial
The New York Central staff has contributed many notable figures to the Century’s membership; most of them are remembered in the Club far less for their technical achievement than for their genial human interest. Alexander Steele Lyman was one of them. The occasion of his entry into the Century was characteristic. An officer of the Club, happening to attend a luncheon at New York University, of whose council Lyman was a member, listened to an impromptu speech by Lyman. Inquiring if this was not a professor of Greek or occupant of some other high academic post, he was informed that the ready and cultured speaker was general attorney of the New York Central. Lyman’s nomination and subsequent election to the Century followed.
Lyman was a lawyer of distinction, serving for more than thirty years in important railway litigation. His gentle and kindly nature and his liking for higher things stood out against a strong and rugged character which marked the man of action.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1931 Century Association Yearbook