WELL-KNOWN PHYSICIAN ANSWERS FINAL CALL
Dr. Lyman Skeen of Ogden Dies after Two Week’s Illness
Special to the Tribune – May 16, 1906
OGDEN, May 14 – Dr. Lyman Skeen, 35 years old, died at 10:55 this forenoon, after a lingering illness extending over two weeks. His death has been anticipated for a least seven days, as during that period the medical authorities of Salt Lake and Ogden have been in attendance on him and over a week ago had given him up.
The cause of his death was tubercular cerebro meningitis, and an operation performed last Thursday night and a subsequent analysis developed in the presence of the tubercular bacilii in the spinal fluid. His death is not only a loss to his family who mourn for his untimely death, but to the entire community.
The funeral services will be held from the Weber Stake tabernacle in Ogden on Wednesday at 1 o’clock, and the interment will take place in the Plain City cemetery, where the body will be laid by the side of Dr. Skeen’s mother, Electa Skeen, who died some years ago.
Sketch of His Life – Dr. Lyman Skeen was, according to Dr. E.M. Conroy, and other prominent members of the medical profession in Utah, the most erudite student of pathology for the years he has lived in the United States. He was born at Plain City in Weber county on July 1, 1871, and had he lived until the anniversary of his birth this year would have been 35 years of age. He was the son of Lyman Skeen, still a hale and hearty man, and of Electa Skeen, who died April 29, 1891.
The deceased was always of a grave and retiring nature, but was an ardent student of the physical ailments and a master in the art of relieving human suffering. So thoroughly did he devote himself to this work that his relatives and friends believe that his arduous efforts were the cause of his death.
Educated in Public Schools – He was educated with the meager facilities that the prevailed in the public schools of Plain City. He came into Ogden and attended the Central school here under the tutelage of T.R. Lewis. After finishing the course here he went to Logan and attended the Brigham Young college, and from there went to the University of Utah, then known as the University of Deseret, from which institution he gradeuated in four years in the normal course and also in the literary course.
Taught School Short Term – He then taught school in Plain City for two years and went to the University of Virginia for a post-graduate course. In his second year he graduated with the degree of M.D. and with additional honor of Ph.D, the latter degree beging tendered because of his excellence in the sciences of biology, chemistry and geology. With on of the professors of the University of Virginia he collaborated on a work of pathology that is today held up as one of the standard works.
Instructor in University – After receiving his degrees he was at once engaged as instructor in the same university, and held the chair of biology and pathology in the university until 1892 , and during the vacations he made a special study of certain diseases in the hospitals of New York and Boston. In 1902-03 he attended the University of Berlin, and came out of that institution of learning with high honors, earning degrees in different branches of the sciences.
Dr. Skeen was unmarried, but he is survived by his father, five brothers and fours sisters. These are Charles Skeen, J.D. Skeen, W.R. Skeen, D.A. Skeen, Joseph Skeen, Mrs. L.R. Carver, Electa Skeen, Mrs. Mary E. Rawson and Miss Issabella Skeen.
May 14, 1906