Born 20 August 1848 in Fort Laramie (later part of Wyoming). Son of Amasa Lyman and Eliza Partridge. Married Adelia Robison on 18 May 1867; nine children. Participated in plural marriage. Set apart as president of British Mission, 4 November 1898. Returned from mission, 24 June 1901. Died 13 November 1901 in Bluff, San Juan County, Utah.[1]
[1] Platte De A. Lyman entry, no. 820, Missionary Department, Missionary Registers, 1860–1959, Book C, 85, Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City; Francis M. Lyman, Genealogy of the Lyman Family in Utah Territory, 1876–1916, 52, 59, CHL; “Lyman, Platte De Alton,” in Andrew Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. 3 (Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History, 1920), 153–154.