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| Affiliation | Democratic-Republican |
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| Name | Matthew Lyon |
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Eddyville, Kentucky , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
July 14, 1749 |
| Died |
August 01, 1822
(73 years) |
| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | LYON, Matthew, (father of Chittenden Lyon and great-grandfather of William Peters Hepburn), a Representative from Vermont and from Kentucky; born near Dublin, County Wicklow, Ireland, July 14, 1749; attended school in Dublin; began to learn the trade of printer in 1763; immigrated to the United States in 1765; was landed as a redemptioner and worked on a farm in Woodbury, Conn., where he continued his education; moved to Wallingford, Vt. (then known as the New Hampshire Grants), in 1774 and organized a company of militia; served as adjutant in Colonel Warner’s regiment in Canada in 1775; commissioned second lieutenant in the regiment known as the Green Mountain Boys in July 1776; moved to Arlington, Vt., in 1777; resigned from the Army in 1778
VT State House 1779-1783
Founded the town of Fair Haven, Vt., in 1783
VT House for ten years during the period 1783-1796
Built and operated various kinds of mills, including one for the manufacture of paper; established a printing office in 1793 and published the Farmers’ Library, afterward the Fair Haven Gazette
US House (DR-VT) 1797-1801; was not a candidate for renomination in 1800
Moved to Kentucky in 1801 and settled in Caldwell (now Lyon) County
KY House 1802
US House (DR-KY) 1803-1811; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1810 to the Twelfth Congress
Appointed United States factor to the Cherokee Nation in Arkansas Territory in 1820; unsuccessfully contested the election of James W. Bates as a Delegate from Arkansas Territory to the Seventeenth Congress; died in Spadra Bluff, Ark., August 1, 1822; interment in Spadra Bluff Cemetery; reinterment in Eddyville Cemetery, Eddyville, Caldwell (now Lyon) County, Ky., in 1833.
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