Background
Mayor Lyon was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania north of Pittsburgh in 1842.
Mayor Lyon was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania north of Pittsburgh in 1842.
He joined the 102nd Pennsylvania Volunteers during the American Civil War. When he came home from war Lyon made a small fortune in the petroleum industry. The American Federation of Labor-Congress, forerunner to the American Federation of Labor-Congress-Chief Information Officer, was founded in Pittsburgh under his administration.
In 1884, he went to work in a steel mill and worked in county government until his death in 1904.
He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in the west suburb of McKees Rocks.