William Cotter Lyon (July 7, 1841 – September 24, 1908) was an American Republican politician who served as the 20th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1888 to 1890 under Governor

Joseph B. Foraker Joseph Benson Foraker (July 5, 1846 – May 10, 1917) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 37th governor of Ohio from 1886 to 1890 and as a United States senator from Ohio from 1897 until 1909. Foraker was ...

. Lyon was born July, 1841 at

Homer Township, Medina County, Ohio Homer Township is one of the seventeen townships of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 1,461 people in the township. Geography Located in the part of the county, it borders the following townships: * Spencer Township - n ...

. His mother died in Michigan in 1847, and his father was murdered in Putnam County, Ohio in 1853. Smith 1898 : 544 He was left at age twelve to care for himself and his younger orphan siblings. He learned the shoemaker's trade, educated himself and sometimes attended the Seville Academy. At outbreak of the Insurrection, he enlisted in the Twenty-third Ohio Regiment. He served two years as a private before being made a commissioned officer. Thirteen months before the end of the war, he was captured and imprisoned in a POW camp. After release he was made a captain. After the war he returned to the shoe business in Medina County, and moved to

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in 1870. In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him Postmaster of that city, and he was re-appointed by President Chester A. Arthur. He resigned with the election of Grover Cleveland, but it was not accepted until January 1, 1886. In 1884, he purchased the Newark American. In 1887 he was nominated and elected Ohio Lieutenant Governor. He was not re-nominated in 1889. He died in 1908.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lyon, William Cotter 1841 births 1908 deaths 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) Lieutenant governors of Ohio People from Medina County, Ohio Politicians from Newark, Ohio Ohio Republicans Union Army officers People of Ohio in the American Civil War American Civil War prisoners of war Journalists from Ohio