Lyon, Matthew
statesman, was born in 1746, in Ireland. He settled in Vermont after the war; and was elected a member of the state legislature in 1779, and the four succeeding years. In 1783 he founded the town of Fairhaven. He served that town in the legislature ten years; and in 1786 was assistant judge of Rutland county. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1797 to 1801. He removed to Kentucky; served two years in the legislature of that state; and was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1803 to 1811. In 1820 he was appointed a factor among the Cherokee Indians in Arkansas. When that territory was organized he was elected the first delegate to congress, but did not live to take his seat. He died Aug. 1, 1822, in Spadro Bluff, Ark.