Carroll-Marion County IN Archives Biographies.....Lyon, Alfred Bartlett 1866 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 26, 2006, 8:07 pm Author: John C. Odell (1916) ALFRED BARTLETT LYON. Few residents of Carroll county, Indiana, are quite as well and favorably known as Alfred Bartlett Lyon, for sixteen years designer for the H. Lieber Company, of Indianapolis, and for many years an instructor in interior decorations at the John Herron Art Institute of Indianapolis, but who is now and has been since 1913 the proprietor of the Pyrmont Mills Company. Alfred Bartlett Lyon is a native of Boston, Massachusetts, having been born on December 15, 1866, the son of Michael and Ann (Willoughby) Lyon. The father was a native of the United States but of English descent while the mother was born in Ireland. She came to America with her parents when six years old and settled with them in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Lyon's parents were married in Boston, Massachusetts, and had eight children, six of whom are still living. The living children are all residents of the East except the subject of this sketch. Mr. Lyon's father was a saddler by occupation and at one time owned and operated two saddleries in Boston, Massachusetts. He died in middle life. His wife, the mother of Mr. Lyon, is still living in Boston, Massachusetts. Reared and educated in the public schools of Boston, Massachusetts, Alfred Bartlett Lyon attended the Boston evening school and studied art in the Bird school. He also studied under Rafelio Raneri in New York, and made great progress in sculpturing, wood carving and designing. He was the first American who took the course in the Swedish Sloyd System under Professor Larson, of Boston, Massachusetts, and the first American who first taught this system. Mr. Lyon studied physical culture under Professor Dudley, a sergeant in the Young Men's Christian Union. He became superintendent of the Young Men's Christian Union in Boston and taught in the gymnasium for a number of years. He also taught in the gymnasium of Cambridge. While he was living in the East, Mr. Lyon was very prominent in gymnasium athletics but his daily vocation was wood-carving, modeling and designing for interior decorations. During that period he was employed by many of the leading firms from Portland, Maine, to Baltimore. During the five years preceding his coming to Indianapolis, he was employed by F. J. Newcomb Manufacturing Company as an interior decorator. The latter is one of the leading picture frame manufacturing concerns in the United States. Shortly before coming west, Mr. Lyon was employed as an interior decorator in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. In November, 1899, Alfred Bartlett Lyon accepted a position with the H. Lieber Company, at No. 24 West Washington street, Indianapolis, Indiana, as decorator and designer of picture frames, mirror frames and mouldings. For the next sixteen years he was connected with the H. Lieber Company as their principal designer and is at the present time their consulting designer. In 1913 Mr. Lyon purchased the Pyrmont mills and is now operating the mills. One year after purchasing the Pyrmont mills, the family moved to Pyrmont. Having been engaged in the designing and decorating business for thirty-six years, Mr. Lyon wanted a change and has found this change in his present commercial venture. On September 3, 1903, Alfred Bartlett Lyon was married to Mary C. Krebs, of Madison, Indiana, who has borne him three sons, Alfred Krebs, Philip Barker and Ralph Willoughby. Fraternally, Alfred Bartlett Lyon is a member of all of the branches of the Masonic fraternity from the blue lodge to the Shrine and has held many offices in the various branches of Masonry. He is an honorary member of many societies in this state, among which is the Indianapolis Musikverein. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Biographical Section of HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS BY JOHN C ODELL With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families ILLUSTRATED 1916 B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/lyon92bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/infiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb