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ROBERT LYON (deceased) was born in Pleasant Township in 1803; the son of William and Anna (Brown) Lyon, who were early pioneers of this township, and a sketch of whom is given in the history of Pleasant Township. William Lyon came to this township in 1796. Robert was raised on his father’s farm five and one-fourth miles south of Georgetown, attending school in the rude log cabins thereabouts. He selected farming as his occupation, and became an extensive land-holder, at one time owning 921 acres. He died in 1854. In 1841, he married Rachel, daughter of Jesse and Mary (York) Printy. Jesse Printy’s father was a native-born Irishman, who served in the Revolutionary war; his (Jesse’s) mother was a native of Sweden. Jesse emigrated to Pleasant Township in 1810, and died in 1882 at the advanced age of ninety-eight years. He had seen Pleasant Township converted from a dense wilderness into a prosperous and bounteous country. His wife was a Pennsylvanian by birth. The union of Robert Lyon and Rachel Printy was blessed with a family of six children, four of whom are living. The eldest child, William, was born April 5, 1842, received his education in Pleasant Township and engaged in farming six miles south of Georgetown. His farm is beautifully located on a rise of ground, and from his residence he has a view of the Ohio River for a distance of ten miles. He is a Democrat. He was twice married, first to Evaline Chapman, daughter of Isaac Chapman. By this marriage he has five children — Ada, Lola, Robert, Edward and Gillian. Mrs. Lyon died in 1876, and, in 1879, William married Mary, daughter of John Kuntz. One child, Alfred, is the fruit of this union. Robert Lyon’s second child, Louis, born in 1845, is the present manager of the old homestead of 310 acres. He received his education at the Western Union College and Military Academy in Whiteside County, Ill. He also attended the Ohio University one year. He was married, in 1868, to the daughter of Rev. J. P. Daugherty, Rachel A., by whom he has one daughter, Jessie. The remaining children of the subject of this sketch are Mary (wife of Capt. Charles D. Thompson, of Georgetown), Dan (deceased), Anna (deceased), and Ruth (wife of U. G. Rees, a Georgetown merchant).