[1] Mayor Lyon was born in Butler County, Pennsylvania north of Pittsburgh in 1842.

When he came home from war Lyon made a small fortune in the petroleum industry.

He guided city hall into the completion of the Smithfield Street Bridge and the successful annexation of the Garfield neighborhood.

He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in the west suburb of McKees Rocks.

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