Lyman Cobb (1800–1864) was an American schoolteacher and author of school textbooks. His spelling book, A Just Standard for Pronouncing the English Language, first published in Ithaca, New York, in 1821, went through many revised editions and sold millions of copies, competing with Noah Webster's speller in the common schools. He also wrote readers, arithmetic books and small collections of verse for young children, such as Pretty Verses for All Good Children (1836), which teaches reading through simple rhymes in words of one, two and three syllables along with lessons in good conduct. Cobb argued in print against corporal punishment in schools. His books were standard in American common schools for about a quarter of a century, but he died in poverty in 1864.
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