Lyman Ward was a Universalist minister from New York who founded what is now the Southern Preparatory Academy, a private military boarding school in Tallapoosa County. He later ran for governor of Alabama as a Republican.
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Lyman Ward was a Universalist minister from New York who founded what is now the Southern Preparatory Academy, a private military boarding school in Tallapoosa County. He later ran for governor of Alabama as a Republican.