Lyon, Ernest
clergyman, was born Sept. 22, 1860, in British Honduras. He received a liberal education, and graduated from the classical department of the New Orleans university. He studied theology in the Gilbert Seminary and the Union Theological seminary of New York city. He has filled pastorates in the methodist episcopal church, in the Mallalieu chapel in New Orleans, and at St. Mark's church in New York city. He has been special agent of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern Education society; statistical secretary of the Louisiana annual conference; president of the New York preachers' meeting; and has filled various other high positions in the gift of his church.