Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Lyon, Edward P & Henry S 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

EDWARD P. & HENRY S. LYON. The Hedge Lawn Stock Farm is a noticeable feature 
in the landscape of Washington Township, and is well known to stockmen as a 
place where Hereford cattle are made a specialty. The estate is located on 
section 31, and consists of two hundred and forty acres of well-improved land, 
supplied with excellent buildings, which include everything necessary for the 
convenience and comfort of the owners, and the housing of the stock and crops 
which they raise. The subjects of this sketch are associated in partnership, 
and the two have been carrying on their affairs jointly for more than fifteen 
years. The farm which they operate was purchased by their father, Caleb Lyon, 
in 1853, and was the family home until the death of the father in August, 
1881. The Lyons come of an old New Jersey family of Huguenot stock. In 
Elizabethtown, Caleb Lyon was born in 1808, but was still a child when his 
father, Caleb Lyon, Sr., removed to Schenectady County, N. Y. The latter was a 
stage-coach and carriage maker, and was a pioneer in his business. He lived to 
be more than four-score years old. He had married Martha Lyon, a distant 
relative, who also died in the Empire State, at the age of fifty-eight years. 
They belonged to the Presbyterian Church, as did all of the old stock. The 
father of our subject was reared in the Empire State, and under the tuition of 
his father learned the trade of a carriage and stagecoach maker. He married 
Miss Jeanette Mansfield, and they continued to reside in the Empire State 
until 1850, in the fall of which they came West and located in the city of 
Chicago. There the father followed his trade for a time, finally putting his 
family on the Will County farm, but himself continuing his employment in 
Chicago for some time longer. He belonged to the Presbyterian Church, and he 
and his wife were charter members of a society in Will Township, this county, 
which they assisted in organizing. They were the parents of four sons and one 
daughter. Leverett M., one of the members of the parental household, gave his 
life to his country, being killed by a rebel gunshot at the battle of 
Chickamauga, September 19, 1863. He had served for some time as a member of 
Company H, One Hundredth Illinois Infantry, and held the rank of Corporal at 
the time of his decease. His superior officers were Capt. Goddard and Col. 
Bartleson. He was twenty-four years old when his life was cut short by the 
civil contest. The living members of the family are: William C., Edward P., 
Henry S. and Amelia A. William married Margaret Buck, and lives in Coffey 
County, Kan., where he is engaged in farming; Henry S. married Miss Margaret 
Crawford, of New York, and has one child, Robert C.; Amelia remains with her 
mother and her brother, Edward P. Mrs. Caleb Lyon, who still survives and is 
now an active old lady eighty-one years of age, lives with her son, Edward P. 
She was born in Schoharie County, N. Y., June 14, 1809, being a daughter of 
Leverett and Sarah (Sanford) Mansfield, who were natives of New Haven, Conn. 
In the city of their birth Mr. and Mrs. Mansfield grew to maturity and were 
married, going at once to Schoharie County, N. Y., where Mr. Mansfield took up 
the occupation of a merchant hotel-keeper and farmer in the village of 
Esperance. In later life he and his family removed to Illinois, making their 
home in Princeville, Peoria County. There he and his wife died within a few 
days of each other, the one being eighty-one and the other seventy-nine years 
of age. They had been members of the Presbyterian Church from early life. 
Edward P. Lyon, of this brief sketch, was born in the Empire State, July 18, 
1842, but has spent the greater part of his life on the farm which he now 
operates, he married Miss Lottie Rose, the wedding ceremony being celebrated 
at Beecher, October 18, 1879. Mrs. Lyon was reared in this State, and was 
graduated from the institution at Normal. For some years she was engaged in 
teaching in the public schools of Chicago. She was deeply interested in 
educational and literary matters and in all that was elevating and refining. A 
good mother and a loving wife, she was sincerely mourned by her household and 
many friends when she was removed by death, December 29, 1885, at the age of 
thirty-six years. She was the mother of three children—Mary M., Edward R. and 
Leverett S. Mr. Lyon has been for some time associated with the Congregational 
Church, of which his wife was also a member. He and all his brothers vote and 
work for the cause of temperance. Mr. Lyon is not an office-seeker, but is 
ever ready to look after the interests of his party in local matters and is an 
able worker in the ranks. He is respected as he deserves for his general 
intelligence, his zeal in the work to which he has devoted himself, and the 
uprightness of his character.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 
 


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