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LYON, GEORGE A., SR. Is a native of Canada, and was born August 8, 1821. When about ten years of age his parents
moved to Pennsylvania, and after one year's residence there they moved to Ohio. At the age of nineteen the subject
of this sketch entered the Alleghany College at Meadville, Pennsylvania, which institution he attended for two
and one half years, when, on account of failing health, he was compelled to discontinue. The next two years were
spent in teaching school in Canada. He then returned to Pennsylvania and engaged in the manufacture of pig iron,
which he followed for two years, when the building and machinery were destroyed by fire. Mr. Lyon was then appointed
deputy sheriff of Mercer County, which office he held until March, 1849. He then started across the plains with
ox teams for California, and arrived at Sacramento September 1st of the above year. The first winter was spent
in mining in Amador County. He then established a store at Jackson and after about six months, in company with
two men, established a store in Sacramento, which they conducted, as well as that in Jackson, for about one year.
The subject of this sketch then sold his interest to his partners, and engaged in hotel keeping in Placer County,
which business he followed for six years. He then moved to Sacramento, where he resided until September, 1858,
when he removed to Lake County and settled on his present place, consisting of nine hundred acres, located at Black
Point, between Lakeport and Upper Lake, where he is now enaged in farming and wool growing. In 1859 he was elected
Justice of the Peace, which office he held three years. Mr. Lyon married, March 18, 1846, Miss Prudence McKean,
a native of Pennsylvania. She died June 12, 1873, leaving eight children: George A., Sarah E., Carlos A. Clara
M., James M., Edward E., Ada A., and Mabel C. He married secondly June 10, 1874., Mrs. Emma L. Ranard. By this
union they have two children, Edith and Walter S.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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