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Wicklow (Irish Republic) (search for this): entry lyon-matthew
Lyon, Matthew 1746-
Legislator; born in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1746: emigrated to America at the age of thirteen, and was assigned to a Connecticut farmer for a sum of money to pay for his passage.
Subsequently he settled in Vermont and became lieutenant in a company of Green Mountain boys, in 1775, but was cashiered for deserting his post.
He served in the Northern Army awhile afterwards, and held the rank of colonel while serving as commissary-general of militia.
In 1778 he was deputy secretary to the governor of Vermont; and after the war he built saw-mills and grist-mills, a forge, and a mill for manufacturing paper, where he had founded the town of Fairhaven, in Rutland county.
Lyon served in the State legislature, and was a judge of Rutland county in 1786.
He established the Freeman's Library (newspaper), which he conducted with ability.
From 1797 to 1801 he was a member of Congress, and gave the vote which made Jefferson President of the United States.
For a li
United States (United States) (search for this): entry lyon-matthew
Lyon, Matthew 1746-
Legislator; born in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1746: emigrated to America at the age of thirteen, and was assigned to a Connecticut farmer for a sum of money to pay for his passage.
Subsequently he settled in Vermont and became lieutenant in a company of Green Mountain boys, in 1775, but was cashiered for deserting his post.
He served in the Northern Army awhile afterwards, and held the rank of colonel while serving as commissary-general of militia.
In 1778 he was d egislature, and was a judge of Rutland county in 1786.
He established the Freeman's Library (newspaper), which he conducted with ability.
From 1797 to 1801 he was a member of Congress, and gave the vote which made Jefferson President of the United States.
For a libel on President Adams, in 1798, he was confined four months in jail and fined $1,000. In 1801 he went to Kentucky, and represented that State in Congress from 1803 to 1811.
Ruined pecuniarily by the building of gunboats for the Wa
Rutland County (Vermont, United States) (search for this): entry lyon-matthew
Oxford (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry lyon-matthew
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): entry lyon-matthew
Vermont (Vermont, United States) (search for this): entry lyon-matthew
Lyon, Matthew 1746-
Legislator; born in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1746: emigrated to America at the age of thirteen, and was assigned to a Connecticut farmer for a sum of money to pay for his passage.
Subsequently he settled in Vermont and became lieutenant in a company of Green Mountain boys, in 1775, but was cashiered for deserting his post.
He served in the Northern Army awhile afterwards, and held the rank of colonel while serving as commissary-general of militia.
In 1778 he was deputy secretary to the governor of Vermont; and after the war he built saw-mills and grist-mills, a forge, and a mill for manufacturing paper, where he had founded the town of Fairhaven, in Rutland county.
Lyon served in the State legislature, and was a judge of Rutland county in 1786.
He established the Freeman's Library (newspaper), which he conducted with ability.
From 1797 to 1801 he was a member of Congress, and gave the vote which made Jefferson President of the United States.
For a l
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): entry lyon-matthew
Frederick Freeman (search for this): entry lyon-matthew
John Adams (search for this): entry lyon-matthew
Jefferson President (search for this): entry lyon-matthew