Robert Anderson Fulton "Fulty" Lyon

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Husband Robert Anderson Fulton "Fulty" Lyon ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1 Feb 1861 4
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           Died: 26 Feb 1918 4
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         Father: Gordon M. Lyon (      -Abt 1861/1865) 1 2 5
         Mother: Mary Anna Kifer (      -1913) 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Anderson Fulton "Fulty" Lyon

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He was educated in the public schools of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and began business as a clerk in a book store in Greensburg and afterwards in Pittsburgh. Later he was a traveling salesman of stationery, and after that embarked in the book and stationery business in Greensburg under the firm name of Clark & Lyon. After this he was a member of the firm of Lyon, Clements & Hill. In each of these business enterprises his work was attended with more than average success. In the spring of 1898 he was appointed postmaster of Greensburg, and this office he filled for a period of sixteen years. This was a much longer tenure than that given to any modern postmaster in Greensburg. He was appointed under President McKinley, twice reappointed under President Roosevelt and once under President Taft. During this time, as the agent of the United States, he superintended the building of a magnificent post office at Greensburg. After retiring from the post office in July, 1914, he engaged in the real estate and insurance business.
Some years before his death he was made a director in the Barclay-Westmoreland Trust Company, and was elected to the same position in the Merchants and Farmers National Bank. These offices in place of being sought by him were rather forced upon him, for he was not the owner of large blocks of stock in either of these banks. He was selected rather because of his high standing in the community, it being supposed that the people would have faith in any institution of which a man of his character was a director. He was also a director of the Westmoreland Hospital, and secretary of the Westmoreland Building and Loan Association.
All his life Mr. Lyon was an ardent and unbending Republican in politics, and as such was widely known throughout western Pennsylvania.
He was a member of the United Presbyterian church, of Greensburg, which was organized through the efforts of his father after he came to Greensburg from Allegheny City.
In 1916 he was afflicted with a serious illness, from which he could not fully recover.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 13.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 870.

3 Robert Stewart, D.D., LL.D, Col. George Steuart and his wife Margaret Harris: Their Ancestors and Descendants (Labore, India: The Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1907), Pg 440.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 871.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 901.