Biography of Lyman Chidsey page 855.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Lyman Chidsey was born in the State of New York, and is his youth removed 
with his parents to Medina County, Ohio, whence in 1841 he came to this 
county, where till his death, a period of nearly forty years, he resided.  
Jan. 11,1844, he was married to a daughter of the late John Somers, Eliza, 
who survives him.  Shortly after their marriage they moved upon the farm 
adjoining Auburn, on which he breathed his last.  Mr. Chidsey was  a quiet 
and retiring man, and because of his early removal to new and unsettled 
portions of the country, had not the advantages of early education as our 
youths now have.  He was a man of many virtues in his character, of a sound 
judgment, and of enlarged views of man and his obligations. His mind was 
always open for information and to reason, and when made up was firm and 
unswerving, as was his attachment to family and friends.  His neighbors and 
associates always knew his convictions, which he maintained with reason and 
judgement, and always on the side of morality and in the interest of and 
for the good of society.  His neighbors and friends realized these good 
qualities in our friend and neighbor, as was evidenced by the large 
concourse who, regardless of the severe inclemency of the weather, 
attended the funeral from the Presbyterian church, of which denomination 
he had been a member for several years.  Thus lived and died a good man 
(God’s noblest work), a pioneer of the county, leaving to mourn his loss, 
a widow and one child, Mrs. William Ashleman, and hosts of friends and 
neighbors.  

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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