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J. B. R. Lyon
J. B. R. Lyon, the subject of the following sketch, is a printer by vocation; was born at Cheraw, S. C., April 16, 1825, and is the son of Mason R. and Margaret Ann (King) Lyon.
The father was born at Fair Haven, Vt., November 12, 1798; was a printer by vocation, and was the son of James and Phila (Risley) Lyon. James was born in Vermont, April 15, 1775, he was also a printer by vocation, and was the son of Col. Mathew Lyon, a native of Ireland. Col. Mathew Lyon was a member of Congress from Vermont when the alien law was passed, and later had occasion to speak in opposition to the President of the United States. This was a violation of the alien law, because the Colonel was a foreign born citizen, and he was imprisoned, but afterward paid his fines and was released. In 1799, together with a colony of New Englanders from Vermont, he immigrated to Kentucky, and settled on the Cumberland River, about twenty-five miles above the mouth of the river, in what is now called the county of Lyon, which county he afterward represented in the Kentucky Legislature, and afterward was appointed agent to the Chickasaw Indians in Arkansas. The mother of our subject was born in North Carolina, March 24, 1803, and is of the King family, to which belongs Hon. William R. King, of Alabama. She is the mother of twelve children, of which our subject is the eldest, but one.
He was educated at Elizabeth, Carter Co., Tenn., and has devoted his life to printing, and at present is proprietor and editor of the Greeneville Republican. In 1851 he married Martha M. Britton, daughter of James Britton, and to this marriage have been born David K., James B., Charles M., John M., George B., Samuel, Mollie, Maggie and Willie.
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