Additional Reading

The Descendants of Samuel Lyon of Saratoga County, New York, Leonard P. Lyon, Arlington, Virginia, 1991, revised 1999.

The Lyon’s Share, Cecil T.F.B. Lyon, Vantage Press, New York, 1973. Cecil Lyon was a career Foreign Service Officer who served in posts around the world. He died at age 89 on 6 April 1993 in Hancock, New Hampshire.

The Lyon Cook Book and a Few Suggestions on Home and Health, Bertha Emeline Lyon, E.A. Wright Company, Philadelphia, undated. “This book presents a collection of recipes and menus which the Author has been gathering for some years, during her teaching Home Economics in the Mary Lyon School.”

William Penn Lyon, Clara Lyon Hayes, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Evangelical Publishing House, Cleveland, 1926. William Penn Lyon (28 Oct 1822-4 Apr 1910) served as a colonel in the Civil War and as Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Mary Lyon and Mount Holyoke, Opening the Gates, Elizabeth Alden Green, University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1979.

The Power of Christian Benevolence Illustrated in the Life and Labors of Mary Lyon (Memoir of Mary Lyon), compiled by Edward Hitchcock, Hopkins, Bridgman and Company, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1851.

The Power of Christian Benevolence Illustrated in the Life and Labors of Mary Lyon (Life of Mary Lyon), American Tract Society, 1858.

The Life of Mary Lyon, Beth Bradford Gilchrist, 1910.

Mary Lyon Through Her Letters, Marion Lansing, 1937.

Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon, Christopher Phillips, 1990.

Life of General Nathaniel Lyon, Ashbel Woodward, 1862.

Rebellion in Missouri: 1861--Nathaniel Lyon and His Army of the West, Hans Christian Adamson, 1961.