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LYMAN JUDSON, an American financier; born in De Ruyter, N. Y., June 28, 1836; removed to Rome, N. Y., in 1848, and was educated at the Rome Academy. He worked in the Oneida Central Bank from 1853 to 1855, when he went to Chicago and was employed by a planing-mill company. In 1868 he became cashier and in 1891 president of the First National Bank of Chicago. He was the first president of the Board of Directors of the World's Columbian Exposition, and several times president of the American Bankers' Association and the Civic Federation of Chicago. On March 5, 1897, he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Mcappointed coadjutor bishop and succeeded Kinley; in 1901 was reappointed; and at the end of that year resigned. He was the originator of the Civic Reform movement which started in Chicago and became national. In 1906 he retired from public life. He died in 1920.