Col. Delos E. Lyon died 1913

LYON

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Date: 2/8/2018 at 20:13:04

The Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Thursday, April 10, 1913, front page

COL. D. E LYON, PIONEER LAWYER IS SUMMONED

Passes Away at Home of Bluff Street Thursday Morning

IN PRACTICE 54 YEARS

Splendid Career of Integrity and Achievement is Rounded Out

Col. D. E. Lyon, longest in active practice at the Dubuque bar of any attorney living passed away Thursday morning at 7:30.

For two years past Col. Lyon had been failing. He succumbed peacefully at his home at 1005 Bluff Street having been in a state of como for several days.

No man in Dubuque had been more active or more vigorous than he. Throughout his long and eventful career of seventy-nine years no detail of his professional or public career was too small to receive exhaustive attention and no client ever had a more competent or painstaking attorney. He lived in every sense a full and profitable life. There was no time wasted, no energy expended unproductive in his life. Every movement was one well ordered and plan with a view to greater results.

REFUSED TO RETIRE

In the fullness of time, after a life rounded out with results, the break came, and he answered, the final summons. Eight years ago he declared to the writer that the idea of retiring from business was repugnant to him. "I shall never quit as long as my strength and faculties are with me." "Rust," he asserted, "consumes faster than labor wears, and to lay aside the activities of nearly fifty years of practice with its mental and physical activities, would mean quick dissolution." "Read," he said, "the record of men who quit before the forces of nature demand it and you will find that there ends a matter of but a short time."

Col. Lyon followed out this idea. He followed it even after the forces of nature, nearly four score years in constant operation, had begun to show signs of failure. Necessity alone forced a slowing up.