1482 Biographical Directory 25, 1800; attended the common schools; moved to St. Ste- LYON, Matthew (father of Chittenden Lyon and great- phens (an Indian agency), Ala., in 1817; employed in the grandfather of William Peters Hepburn), a Representative bank at St. Stephens and in the office of the clerk of the from Vermont and from Kentucky; born near Dublin, County county court; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1821 Wicklow, Ireland, July 14, 1749; attended school in Dublin; and commenced practice in Demopolis; secretary of the State began to learn the trade of printer in 1763; immigrated senate 1822-1830; member of the State senate in 1833; re- to the United States in 1765; was landed as a redemptioner elected to the State senate in 1834 and served as president and worked on a farm in Woodbury, Conn., where he contin- of that body; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty- ued his education; moved to Wallingford, Vt. (then known fourth Congress and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty- as the New Hampshire Grants), in 1774 and organized a fifth Congress (March 4, 1835-March 3, 1839); was not a company of militia; served as adjutant in Colonel Warner’s candidate for renomination; resumed the practice of law and regiment in Canada in 1775; commissioned second lieuten- also engaged in agriculture; in 1845, when the State banks ant in the regiment known as the Green Mountain Boys were placed in liquidation, he was selected as one of three in July 1776; moved to Arlington, Vt., in 1777; resigned commissioners to adjust all claims and was afterward chosen from the Army in 1778; member of the State house of rep- sole commissioner until the final settlement in 1853; chair- resentatives 1779-1783; founded the town of Fair Haven, man of the Democratic State convention in 1860; delegate Vt., in 1783; was a member of the State house of representa- to the Democratic National Convention at Charleston in tives for ten years during the period 1783-1796; built and 1860, when the southern delegates withdrew, he among operated various kinds of mills, including one for the manu- them; member of the State house of representatives in 1861; facture of paper; established a printing office in 1793 and elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress but declined published the Farmers’ Library, afterward the Fair Haven to serve; elected to the First and Second Confederate Con- Gazette; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Second gresses and served from 1862 until the close of the Civil and Third Congresses; unsuccessfully contested the election War; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1875 of Israel Smith to the Fourth Congress; elected as a Repub- and made the draft of the constitution adopted by the con- lican to the Fifth and Sixth Congresses (March 4, 1797- vention; again elected to the State senate in 1876; died March 3, 1801); was not a candidate for renomination in in Demopolis, Ala., December 31, 1882; interment in the 1800; moved to Kentucky in 1801 and settled in Caldwell Old Glover Vault. (now Lyon) County; member of the house of representatives LYON, Homer Le Grand, a Representative from North of Kentucky in 1802; elected to the Eighth and to the three Carolina; born in Elizabethtown, Bladen County, N.C., succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1803-March 3, 1811); un- March 1, 1879; attended the public schools, the Davis Mili- successful candidate for reelection in 1810 to the Twelfth tary School, Winston, N.C., and the law department of the Congress; was appointed United States factor to the Cher- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; was admitted okee Nation in Arkansas Territory in 1820; unsuccessfully to the bar in 1900 and commenced practice in Whiteville, contested the election of James W. Bates as a Delegate Columbus County, N.C.; delegate to every Democratic State from Arkansas Territory to the Seventeenth Congress; died convention from 1901 to 1921; delegate to the Democratic in Spadra Bluff, Ark., August 1, 1822; interment in Spadra National Conventions in 1904 and 1940; solicitor of the Bluff Cemetery; reinterment in Eddyville Cemetery, eighth judicial district of North Carolina 1913-1920; elected Eddyville, Caldwell (now Lyon) County, Ky., in 1833. as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the three suc- Bibliography: Austin, Aleine. Matthew Lyon: ‘ ‘New Man’’ of the Demo- ceeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1929); was not cratic Revolution, 1749-1822. University Park: Pennsylvania State Univer- sity Press, 1981; Montagno, George L. ‘‘Matthew Lyon, Radical Jeffer- a candidate for renomination in 1928; resumed the practice sonian, 1796-1801: A Case Study in Partisan Politics.’’ Ph.D. diss., Univer- of law in Whiteville, N.C., until his retirement in 1950; sity of California at Berkeley, 1954. died in Whiteville, N.C., May 31, 1956; interment in Memo- rial Cemetery. LYTLE, Robert Todd (nephew of John Rowan), a Rep- resentative from Ohio; born in Williamsburg, Clermont LYON, Lucius, a Delegate, a Senator, and a Representa- County, Ohio, May 19, 1804; attended the common schools tive from Michigan; born in Shelburne, Chittenden County, and Cincinnati College; studied law in Louisville, Ky.; was Vt., February 26, 1800; attended the common schools; moved admitted to the bar in that city in 1824 and commenced to Bronson, Mich., in 1821; became a land surveyor; elected the practice of his profession in Cincinnati, Ohio; elected as a Democrat Delegate to the Twenty-third Congress county prosecuting attorney; member of the State house of (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1835); served as a member of the representatives in 1828 and 1829; elected as a Jacksonian convention which framed the State constitution in 1835; to the Twenty-third Congress and served from March 4, upon the admission of Michigan as a State into the Union 1833, until March 10, 1834, when he resigned; reelected was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation and served and served from January 26, 1837, to March 3, 1839; was from December 27, 1834, to March 3, 1835; unsuccessful not a candidate for reelection; moved to Grand Rapids, candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Con- Mich., in 1839; member of the board of regents of the Uni- gress; resumed the practice of law; surveyor general of pub- versity of Michigan 1837-1839; appointed Indian commis- lic lands in the Northwest Territory in 1836; major general sioner at La Pointe, Wis., in 1839; elected as a Democrat of Ohio Militia in 1838; died in New Orleans, La., December to the Twenty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1843-March 3, 22, 1839; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, 1845); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1844; Ohio. appointed by President James K. Polk in 1845 surveyor general for Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, moving the office from Cincinnati to Detroit for his convenience, and serving in this capacity until 1850; died in Detroit, Mich., September M 24, 1851; interment in Elmwood Cemetery. Bibliography: Dodge, Elise F. ‘‘Pioneers of the Statehood Era: Lucius MAAS, Melvin Joseph, a Representative from Min- Lyon.’’ Michigan History 71 (November/December 1987): 39-40; Shirigian, nesota; born in Duluth, Minn., May 14, 1898; moved with John. ‘‘Lucius Lyon: His Place in Michigan History.’’ Ph.D. dissertation, his parents to St. Paul, Minn., in 1898; educated in the University of Michigan, 1961. public schools; was graduated from St. Thomas College at Biographies 1483 St. Paul in 1919; attended the University of Minnesota at in a streetcar accident July 13, 1903; interment in St. Mary’s Minneapolis; engaged in the insurance business; during the Cemetery, Kansas City, Mo. First World War served in the aviation branch of the Marine Corps in 1918 and 1919; officer in the Marine Corps Reserve MACDONALD, Moses, a Representative from Maine; in 1925 and retired with rank of major general August 1, born in Limerick, Maine, April 8, 1815; received an academic 1952; elected as a Republican to the Seventieth, Seventy- education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1837 first, and Seventy-second Congresses (March 4, 1927-March and commenced practice in Biddeford, Maine, in 1837; mem- 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932; ber of the State house of representatives in 1841, 1842, received the Carnegie Silver Medal for disarming a maniac and 1845; served as speaker in 1845; served in the State in the United States House of Representatives in December senate in 1847; State treasurer 1847-1850; elected as a Dem- 1932; elected to the Seventy-fourth and to the four suc- ocrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses ceeding Congresses (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1945); un- (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1855); chairman, Committee on successful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy- Revolutionary Claims (Thirty-second Congress); appointed ninth Congress; served in the South Pacific as a colonel collector of customs at Portland, Maine, by President Bu- in the United States Marine Corps 1942-1945, while still chanan in 1857 and served until 1861; died in Saco, Maine, a Member of Congress; special adviser to the House Naval on October 18, 1869; interment in Laurel Hill Cemetery. Affairs Committee in 1946; assistant to the chairman of MACDONALD, Torbert Hart, a Representative from the board of the Sperry Corporation, New York City, 1947- Massachusetts; born in Everett, Middlesex County, Mass., 1951; became a member of the President’s Committee on June 6, 1917; attended Malden public schools, Medford High Employment of the Physically Handicapped in 1949 and School, and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; was grad- served as chairman 1954-1964; had been stricken with total blindness in August 1951; was a resident of Chevy Chase, uated from Harvard University, B.A., 1940 and from its Md., until his death in Bethesda, Md., April 13, 1964; inter- law school, LL.B., 1946; served in the United States Navy ment in Arlington National Cemetery.