Lehman, Daniel A. (1860-1942)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1942 Sep 17 p. 1

Birth date: 1860

Widely Known Teacher Called Away in Indiana Last Week

PROF. D. A. LEHMAN MEMBER OF GOSHEN COLLEGE FACULTY FOR 30 YEARS

Goshen, Ind., Sept. 8 — Daniel A. Lehman, 82, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Goshen college from 1906 until 1935 when, on account of ill health, he retired and was made professor emeritus, died at 8 a. m. today at the Austin home in Goshen. He had been ill for several months.

Professor Lehman was a member of the American Mathematical association, the Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Indiana Academy of Science.

Funeral services will be held in the Goshen college chapel on Thursday. The services at 4 o'clock will be in charge of the Rev. C. L. Graber, the Rev. Howard J. Brown, pastor of the First Methodist church, and Dr. E. E. Miller, president of the college.

After attending the common schools near his home in Lancaster county, Pa., he attended the Millersville State normal, and was graduated with the first degree class of that institution with the degree, bachelor of science. Then, after teaching in the public schools for several terms, he attended Wesleyan university in Connecticut, where he received the degree, bachelor of philosophy in 1893 and he was a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Chicago from 1893 to 1895.

From 1895 to 1898 he was principal of the academy in the University of the Pacific in California, and studied at Lick observatory the following summer. He served as professor of mathematics at Baldwin university in Ohio, 1898-1902, spending his summers in graduate study at Western Reserve university, where he was granted the M. A. drgree [sic] in 1902. During the following year he was an assistant in mathematics at Western Reserve university. For the next two years, 1903-1905, he was an instructor in mathematics in Missouri State Normal school and during the next academic year at the University of Wisconsin.

After coming to Goshen college as professor of mathematics and astronomy in 1906, Professor Lehman continued his keen interest in his field by doing graduate work in various institutions; at the University of Michigan during the summers of 1908 and 1909, Columbia university in 1910, the University of Chicago every summer from 1912 to 1918, and the University of Colorado in 1922.

Even after his retirement from Goshen college, he spent most of his summers and at times, entire years, in further study. He was particularly fond of the University of Colorado and Harvard University. In Professor Lehman's passing the college and the community lose a ripe scholar and a cultured Christian gentleman of the old school. — News Democrat.