From 1913 until 1917, Dr. Francis Anderson Lyman (1863-1917) was the government physician for the Waimea District, Kauai, the superintendent of the Waimea Hospital and the plantation physician for Waimea and Kekaha sugar companies. During his four years of medical
From 1913 until 1917, Dr. Francis Anderson Lyman (1863-1917) was the government physician for the Waimea District, Kauai, the superintendent of the Waimea Hospital and the plantation physician for Waimea and Kekaha sugar companies.
During his four years of medical practice at Waimea, Dr. Lyman made many friends. Not only was he a fine physician, he also possessed personal qualities that endeared him to his patients — kindheartedness, compassion, honesty and an unassuming disposition.
He was born in Honolulu, the son of Frederick S. and Isabella (Chamberlain) Lyman, in the Chamberlain house at the rear of the Kawaiahao Church, on the grounds of what is now the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives.
Built in 1831, Chamberlain House — which presently serves as the Mission Houses’ temporary exhibition gallery — is named after missionary Levi Chamberlain, who arrived in Hawaii in 1823 to become the accountant and superintendent of Secular Affairs for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Hawaii.
Levi Chamberlain arranged to build the house — constructed of coral blocks cut from a nearby ocean reef and lumber salvaged from ships — to serve as his headquarters, where he would disburse provisions for fellow missionaries throughout the Hawaiian Islands.
The missionary Chamberlains — Levi and his wife, Maria — were Dr. Lyman’s grandparents, as were missionaries Rev. David Beldon Lyman and his wife, Sarah, who came to Hawaii in 1832.
Dr. Lyman attended Beloit College in Wisconsin and Western Reserve University in Ohio, graduating in 1885, after receiving his early education in Hilo and at Punahou.
Following his graduation from Rush Medical College in Illinois in 1889, he practiced medicine in Illinois, Wisconsin and Colorado, but returned to Hawaii with his family in 1912 to begin practicing in Waimea the next year as a replacement for Dr. Bruno Sandow, when Sandow resigned.
Dr. Lyman and his wife, Mamie Aldrich Lyman, had two sons, Francis and Howard.
