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Milford Hall Lyon

LYON, SISSON, FOREST, BEEBE, MORGAN

Posted By: Sara J. Lyon (email)
Date: 3/3/2004 at 13:17:19

Milford Hall Lyon

LYON, MILFORD HALL clergyman: b Waukon, Allemakee (sic) County, Ia. Feb. 10, 1868. s. Edmond Burke and Harriet (Sisson) L; youngest of 14 children. A.B. State U. of Ia., 1892: D. D., Wheaton (Ill) Coll. 1916; m. Effie Cornelia Forest. Nov. 10, 1892; children- Merle Paul, Helen (Mrs. R. E. Beebe), Arthur Eugene, Margaret (Mrs. H.M. Morgan) Ruth. Pres. Ellsworth Coll., Iowa Falls, Ia. 1892-94; ordained Congl. ministry, 1894; pastor Harvey, Ill. 1894-96. Bethel Ch. Chicago, 1896-99; evangelistic work, 1899-l930 C (delivered over 8,000 addresses in 36 States, 150,000 confessed conversions), pastor Morgan Park Presbyn. Ch., Chicago, 1930, 31, First Presbyn Ch. Daytona Beach, Fla. 1932-39; Dir. Winona Assembly,1915-20; pres. Inter-denominational Assn. Evangelists, staff Y.M.C.A. with A.E.F. in France. 1917-18. Republican. Author: The Lordship of Jesus 1905: For the Life That Now is, 1909; The Basis for Brotherhood, 1923. Mem. St. John's Presbytery. Home: 1001 S. Josephine Av. Denver, CO.

- source: WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA; Vol 21; 1940-41; edited by Albert Nelson Marques; Chicago
- submitted by Sara Lyon
- additional information from submitter: M. H. Lyon died August 2, 1953 in Denver, CO of heart failure. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Kosciusko Co. IN


 

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