Archibald naismith biography
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Biography
Lyman Walker Archibald was born on July 3, 1868, at Pleasant Valley, Colchester County, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was among fem children of William and Jane Williamson Archibald.
Lyman's father and generations before him were farmers and lumberjacks in the winter upon the family's arrival from Ireland. Archibald left school at 16 years old and spent two years of farming before he became a clerk at a large general county store. He then left Canada, moving to Rhode Island where he farmed for six months, before learning the machinist trade.
After three years in this business, he returned to Nova Scotia and took up a position with the branch of the YMCA there. He was offered the position of General Secretary in a small town but refused due to his concern that he was not prepared for the position. However, at the urging of his boss at the YMCA, he agreed to attend the International YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, in Springfield, MA to prepare himself for
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Archibald, Nathaniel ("Nate"; "Tiny")
(b. 2 September 1948 in the stadsdel i new york, New York), professional basketball player who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and named to the list of Fifty Greatest Players in NBA history.
Archibald was the second of six children born to "Big Tiny" Archibald, a construction worker, and Julia Archibald, a department store supervisor. The Archibalds, who had immigrated to the United States in 1946 from the West Indies, settled in the Bronx. From the age of six to eleven, Archibald attended Public School 18. After school he raced to the neighborhood basketball court to shoot baskets. At Clark Junior High School he made the school basketball team, and at night he played basketball at Public School 18 Community Center. In the fall of 1963, the same year his father left the family, Archibald entered DeWitt Clinton High School. He had thoughts of quitting school, but the former City College of New York star
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When Archibald D. Naismith Jr was born on 17 March 1851, in Barony, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Archibald Naismith Sr, was 37 and his mother, Mary Baxter, was 36. He married Janet Lamond on 3 September 1878, in Exeter, South Huron Township, Huron, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 24 August 1944, in Straffordville, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 93, and was buried in Straffordville, Elgin, Ontario, Canada.