Background
LYLE, David Alexander was born on January 21, 1845 in Fairfield Company, Ohio, United States.
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David Alexander LYLE
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United States Military Academy, 1869. Massachusetts Institute, of Technical, S.B., 1884.
Career
Y.C. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Artillery 1869. First Lieutenant, Ord. 1874, Captain 1881, Major, 1899, Lieutenant Colonel, 1904, Colonel, 1907.
Served, frontier duty, Alaska, 1870-1871. Assistant Engineer and commanding Cavalry Escort. Lieutenant Wheeler’s Expedition, Nevada and Arizona, 1871.
Assistant. professor., philosophy, West Point, 1872-1875. Ordnance duty, 1882; Inspector. ordnance, 1882-1902. Engaged, metallurgical work. guns, carriages, projectiles, 1882-1902.
Commanding Augusta Arsenal. Georgia., 1902-1908; Chief Ordnance Officer, Department of South, Armament Officer. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Inventor 2, 2Vo, 3 inch Lyle life saving guns, projectile and apparatus, 1877. Special duty with Life Saving Service and Coast Guard, Treasury Department, since 1877. Member of its Board of Life Saving Appliances.
Military Assistant, United States Commissioner General, Paris Exposition, 1889. Vice-president, Jury Group VTTT, member Superior Jury. 1889; awarded Decoration Legion of Honor, France, 1889.
Membership
Member: (F.) A A. A.S. American Institute. Min. and Met. Engineers: Alumni Associations, West Point and Massachusetts Institute, of Technical Clubs: Cosmos (Washington).
Technology (Philadelphia).
Connections
Spouse Alice Darr, April 2, 1894, N.
