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Delos R. Lyon |
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DELOS E. LYON was born in Franklinville, New York,
November 14, 1832; he died at Dubuque, Iowa, April 10, 1913. He
attended the schools of Franklinville and Buffalo, was clerk in a
country store for about a year and then passed three years in study
at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. He returned to Franklinville and
successfully conducted a store until 1857, then studied law and
passed the New York state bar examination in 1809 in the same class
with Grover Cleveland and other afterward noted lawyers. He
immediately removed to Dubuque, Iowa, and entered upon the practice
of law at the corner of Fifth and Main Streets, where he maintained
his office, associated with various partners, for fifty-four years.
During the Civil War he proposed to volunteer first in the Sixteenth
Iowa Infantry and later in the Eighth Cavalry, but at the request of
the Adjutant General remained in the recruiting service and rendered
valuable service as recruiting officer and aide-de-camp on the
staffs of Governors Kirkwood and Stone. Colonel Lyon was a
Republican in politics, casting his first vote for John C. Fremont.
He was city attorney and surveyor of the port of Dubuque, attorney
for important railroad and express companies and practiced in all
the state and federal courts including the Supreme Court of the
United States.
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~source: Notable Deaths, Annals of Iowa. Vol. XI, No. 4. p. 236.
Historical Society of Iowa. Des Moines. January, 1914
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transcribed & submitted by Sharon Becker
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