Harvard University, A.B. '02. Commissioned major Aviation Section, Signal Corps February 28, 1918; assigned to Fabrics Section, Raw Materials Department, Washington, D.C.; discharged January 3, 1919.

Ronald Lyman was a manager in the cotton mills operated by his father. He later became treasurer of the Waltham Bleachery and Dye Company (succeeding his father) and treasurer of various other textile manufacturing companies.

He was a director of the National Shawmut Bank, Boston (findagrave.com)