A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

              HISTORY OF WAUPACA COUNTY 597
Hiram S. Lyon. Sixty years have passed since the advent of Hiram S. Lyon in the New London community, and through these three score of years he has labored honorably and well, so that today he is living in comfortable retirement in the home that he acquired through his own effort, and occupying a place of esteem in the minds of his fellow-citizens. Mr, Lyon is a Union veteran of the Civil war, has been a skilled farmer and carpenter, and is a citizen whose services have always been at the call of his community. Although today his principal activities are con¬ cerned with the cultivation of his fine orchard, he retains his interest in matters that affect New London, where he has lived and labored for so long a period.
Mr. Lyon is a native of New York, born at Smyrna, Chenango County, September 15, 1831, a son of John and Sena (Spencer) Lyon, the former a native of Rhode Island and the latter of New York. Mr. Lyon's parents followed farming in New York for many years, but about 1886 moved to Iowa and there passed the remainder of their lives, both dying in the Hawkej^e state. Air. Lyon was a lifelong farmer, an indus¬ trious workman and a man who won and held confidence and esteem because of his strict honesty and integrity. Of the seven children of John and Sena (Spencer) Lyon, four grew to maturity: Hiram S., of this notice; John AV.; Debora, and Theo AV., the last two named now being deceased.
Hiram S. Lyon received his education in the schools of New York, where he attended Casenovia Seminary, and taught school in his native state until he came to Wisconsin and became one of the pioneer settlers of Waupaca-County, in the vicinity of New London, the date of his arrival being November 14, 1856. During the early '60s he built a home just south of what is now the corporation line of the City of New Lon¬ don, and this has been his residence to the present time, although it has been improved from time to time and enlarged. In New York he had learned the trade of carpenter, a vocation which he made his business for many years, erecting houses, barns and other buildings and carrying on a general line of carpenter work. In August, 1864, he enlisted in the Union army, enrolling as a member of Company A, Forty-second Regi¬ ment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with which command he served until June, 1865, when he received his honorable discharge because of the close of the war. At that time he returned to his home, where in later years he has been engaged in the cultivation of a fine and productive two-acre orchard, which produces excellent small fruits.
Air. Lyon was married October 14, 1861, at New London, to Aiiss Cornelia B. Packard, a native of Alassachusetts, and they became the parents of four children, all of whom are living: Alice AI., who is now the wife of Archi AI. Packard; Cyrus AA^., who married Celia A. Fendon, and they have one child, Lillian A.; Alary L.; and Sena R. Air. and Airs. Lyon and their children are consistent members of the Congrega¬ tional Church. Air. Lyon had a very creditable war record and is a popular comrade of the local post of the Grand Army of the Republic. He has not cared for politics, nor has he sought public office, but has