Henry J. Lyons

Birth Date

1828-01-07

Death Date

1867-04-11

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, bank officer, soldier, and provisional government commissioner. Washington, D. C., native. Married to Laura W. Simmons Lyons in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on June 8, 1852. Father of Willie L. Lyons and Henry J. Lyons. Bank exchange officer in Louisville in 1860. Employed Mary Murphy as a domestic worker in 1860. In business as Quigley, Lyons, & Co., in Louisville in 1861. Served as assistant quartermaster for Kentucky in Louisville in June 1861. Nominated as bank commissioner to the Confederate States of America by the provisional government of Kentucky on November 28, 1861. Removed from post November 30, 1861.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 98.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, 1842-1853, Film #000482707, p. 95 of 495 of microfilm.
Henry Tanner, ed., The Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 157.
Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1965), KDLA, Film 7016213: All Counties, Jefferson County, 1917-1919, File #39606, p. 3113 of 3311 of microfilm.
Find A Grave, "Henry J. Lyons (1828 - 1867)," Memorial #9979064, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9979064 (accessed May 24, 2017).
KYR-0004-033-0011.
KYR-0004-033-0013.
KYR-0001-019-0094.

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