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Life Summary
Full name
Nathaniel Lyon
Place of Birth
Burial Place
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
0
No. of Children
0
Friends
Francis P. Blair, Jr.
Family
Amasa Lyon (father), Kezia Knowlton Lyon (mother)
Education
West Point (US Military Academy)
Occupation
Military
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Political Parties
Republican
Other Affiliations
Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Army