Ancestry of
Mary Lyon

Founder of Mount Holyoke College

Mary Lyon

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Aaron Lyon Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Jemima Shepard   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Feb 1797 
  • Birth Location:
  • Buckland, Franklin, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Mar 1849 
  • Death Location:
  • South Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts 
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  • Notes: 

  • Founder and President of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College)

    Also helped establish Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College)

• Sources for Mary Lyon

  • ¹ Lyons, Albert Brown, et. al., Lyon Memorial: Massachusetts Families, Including Descendants of the Immigrants William Lyon, of Roxbury . . ., Detroit, Michigan: Press of Wm. Graham Printing Co. (1905), 271.
  • ² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 214.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Mary Lyon", (accessed 06/29/2015).