Harris Merton Lyon

[1] By the early 1900s, he moved to New York City to work as a journalist and as a short story writer.

[1] A newspaper from February 1908 reproduced a photo of a 17-year-old Japanese woman named Hyacinth Tawana, who the caption said was coming to America to marry Lyon.

The caption stated Lyon "had rescued his bride-to-be from a very perilous situation in Japan, and the romance followed.

"[4] In 1913, he moved to a farm in Colebrook, Connecticut and started writing a series of anonymous letters for Reedy's Mirror.

[1] Theodore Dreiser wrote a portrait based on Lyon in Twelve Men.