. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. ivesof New Entrland, but residents of Carroll andJamestown, Ciiautauqua county, N. Y., at thetime of their death. ^IL^RLES LYON is a sou of Alexander and^^ Olive (VanBerger) Lyon, and was bornFebruary 12, 1819, at Oxford, Chenangocounty, New York. His paternal grandfather,was a native of Washington county, thisState, but emigrated to Chenango countywhere he died. Charles Lyons maternalgrandfather, who was a native of Holland,emigrated to America and settled in Cau-andaigua, this State, where he resided until hisdeath. He wa
. Biographical and portrait cyclopedia of Chautauqua County, New York. ivesof New Entrland, but residents of Carroll andJamestown, Ciiautauqua county, N. Y., at thetime of their death. ^IL^RLES LYON is a sou of Alexander and^^ Olive (VanBerger) Lyon, and was bornFebruary 12, 1819, at Oxford, Chenangocounty, New York. His paternal grandfather,was a native of Washington county, thisState, but emigrated to Chenango countywhere he died. Charles Lyons maternalgrandfather, who was a native of Holland,emigrated to America and settled in Cau-andaigua, this State, where he resided until hisdeath. He was a patriotic man and served hiscountry well and nobly, doing his full duty asa soldier during the Wi\r of the married Hannah Knapp. Alexander Lyon(father) was born in Chenango county, N. Y.,in 1776, and removed to Tompkins county,this State, in 1825, where he died. Pic was afarmer by occupation, and during the excitingtimes following the disajjpearance of WilliamINforgnn, he was an intense anti-lMa^on andalterward affiliated witli tlie Whig and Repub-. ^. <€. I^nt ■-^-^^J~ir-rXj OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. 39 lican parties, nnver taking an active part, how-ever. In religion he was a consistent nieinberof the Baptist eliurcli and licld tiie ofliee of(leanon for a s(;ore of years. He was marriedbut once, and iiad born to iiini thirteen eiiildren,ten sons and three daugiiters. Charles Tjyon was educated in the commonschools, and aiterwards tilled his fathers farmin Tompkins county until the autumn of 1844,when he emigrated to Pennsylvania and en-gaged in the lumber business. In 1848 he re-turned to New York, locating in politics Charles Lyon was a Whig until tlicformation of the Republican party, in iSTjiJ,when he became a member of that party andstill continues firmly grounded in the first vote was cast for Gen. William HenryHarrison, of Jippecanoe and Tyler too fame,the grandfather of the present president, and hehas steadily voted the stra
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