George Schuyler Lyons, M. D.; Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana
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George Schuyler Lyons, M. D.  For over twenty years, Doctor Lyons 
has practiced his profession as a physician and surgeon in the De 
Quincy locality of Calcasieu Parish.  He has at the same time 
accumulated a number of business and civic responsibilities, being 
interested in a store and one of the lumber yards at De Quincy.

He represents an old and prominent family of Calcasieu Parish and was 
born at Hickory Branch of that Parish, February 15, 1878.  His 
grandparents were John and Amanda (Stanton) Lyons, natives of St. 
Landry Parish, where John was born in 1806 and his wife in 1812.  
John Lyons, who died in 1886, was a planter in Calcasieu Parish, and 
served as postmaster at Sabine and Bigwood.  His son, John L. Lyons, 
acquired a common school education, and in 1861 enlisted in Company 
K of the Sixteenth Louisiana Regiment.  He was in many battles, 
including the Battle of Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, and was 
wounded at Chickamauga, but subsequently rejoined the army, 
reporting to General Taylor and during the last month of the war was 
with the Second Louisiana Cavalry.  After the war he engaged in 
farming and lumbering, operating cotton gins, grist rice and saw mills, 
and was one of the extensive land owners in the parish.  His home was 
at Sugartown and he died at Lake Charles at the age of seventy-two.  
He married Martha Perkins in 1865.  She was a daughter of R. W. 
Perkins, and her death also occurred at the age of seventy-two at Lake 
Charles.

Dr. George Schuyler Lyons grew up at Sugartown, attended schools 
there, high school and college at Lake Charles, and for one term 
attended the medical school at Mobile, finishing his professional 
education in the University of Tennessee, where he was graduated 
Doctor of Medicine in 1900.  He took special courses on physical 
diagnosis and surgery, and on July 22, 1900, engaged in general 
practice at De Quincy, being the pioneer physician and surgeon to 
locate in that community.  He is a member of the Parish, District, State 
and American Medical Associations.  For a number of years he has 
been local physician and surgeon for the Kansas City Southern Railway 
and local surgeon for the Gulf Coast Lines.

In a business way, he was the organizer and is the principal stockholder 
of the Lyons Planing Mill Company, manufacturing building material 
and lumber at De Quincy.  He also is a partner of the Velma Mercantile 
Company, operating as a retail grocery Store in De Quincy.  Doctor 
Lyons has served as alderman and mayor of De Quincy, is vice 
president of the De Quincy Chamber of Commerce and has always 
showed a very progressive attitude in matters of local importance.  His 
favorite recreation is hunting and fishing.  He is a member of the 
Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Council in Masonry and was the first 
treasurer of the Dc Quincy Lodge Knights of Pythias.  He also belongs 
to the Woodmen of the World, and the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows.  During the World war, he acted as a medical examiner for the 
local draft board and was a volunteer in the medical corps, but not 
called to active duty.

Doctor Lyons married October 9, 1901, at De Quincy Miss Elder 
Webre, daughter of Lemeaux and Catherine Webre.  Her mother is 
living. Mrs. Lyons is an active worker in the Baptist Church.

They have two children:  Leonard, superintendent of the De Quincy 
Light & Water Company; and  Velma, attending the Louisiana State 
University at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 271, by Henry E. Chambers.  
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New 
York, 1925. 5.