Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Ray, Lyman Beecher 
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Author: Bio/Gen Record LaSalle/Grundy 1900

Lyman Beecher Ray, the lieutenant governor of Illinois from 1888 to 1892, is a 
native of the Green Mountain state. He was born in Hinesburg, Chittenden 
county, Vermont, August 17, 1831, and was reared and educated in his native 
state, receiving only the advantage of a public-school and academic education. 
His parents were born and passed all their lives in Vermont.

In 1852, about the time he reached his majority, Mr. Ray came west to Illinois 
and engaged in teaching school, an occupation he followed until 1855. That 
year he came to Morris, and, with a limited capital, opened a general store, 
which he subsequently merged into a dry-goods establishment, and here he 
conducted a successful business until 1888, when he retired, still maintaining 
his residence in Morris.

Mr. Ray was one of the organizers of the Republican party in Grundy county, 
and his political career may be said to date from that time, he having ever 
since taken a deep interest in public affairs. In 1873-4 he served in the 
lower house of the Illinois state legislature, from 1882 to 1886 was a member 
of the senate, and from 1888 to 1892 he was lieutenant governor of the state.

Mr. Ray was married, at Morris, in 1858, to Miss Julia N. Reading, daughter of 
James N. Reading, and to them was given an only daughter, Julia E.

Additional Comments:
Source:  Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County, 
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p618

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