Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. studied mammalogy, bacteriology, and Pathology. Lyon was born on February 5, 1875 in Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. For this time and being he had a fairly small family with only two siblings, Henry S. Lyon and James W. Lyon. His mother , Lydia Anna Lyon, and his father a military man named Captain Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. Because of his father’s military career, Lyon’s family moved across the United States throughout his childhood. When Lyon’s family was stationed at Watertown Arsenal, near Massachusetts, He then realized that he had an interest in science. This is when he first began collecting animals and insects from the local area. From then up to his young adult years there is no information until 1893 when he graduated
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Together they had a daughter named Charlotte Lyon. Martha earned her M.S. at Columbian College in 1901 and M.D. from brown University in 1907. Lyon and Martha always attended scientific meetings together; and in 1911, they traveled to Europe to see museums and they visited famous zoologists. Martha later worked as an ophthalmologist at the South Bend Clinic with Lyon until she later opened her own office. She maintained her office until her death on January 18, 1942. Not long after on May 19,1942, Lyon took his last breathe at his home in South Bend, and was buried on May 27 at Arlington National Cemetery. While Lyon was living in South Bend, Lyon became close friends with Reverend Julius A. Nieuwland, CSC, whom was a botanist and was a chemist at the University of Notre Dame. Lyon and Julius attended field trips together and collected plant specimens which were later added to his second herbarium, which he worked on during his spare time with the extra help from his wife. Lyon was known for his love of nature. In an Obituary written by someone unknown he was considered an “ardent conservationist” later on in his life. He criticised poorly managed conservation programs in his paper “conservation from the Naturalist’s Point of View” In his final draft, “ The Kankakee Area Its past and Present,” he envisioned life around the Kankakee Outwash Plain before human activities had changed it. Lyon has also given up his small cottage in the Indiana Dunes after a wildlife refuge decided to turn it into a vacation
Together they had a daughter named Charlotte Lyon. Martha earned her M.S. at Columbian College in 1901 and M.D. from brown University in 1907. Lyon and Martha always attended scientific meetings together; and in 1911, they traveled to Europe to see museums and they visited famous zoologists. Martha later worked as an ophthalmologist at the South Bend Clinic with Lyon until she later opened her own office. She maintained her office until her death on January 18, 1942. Not long after on May 19,1942, Lyon took his last breathe at his home in South Bend, and was buried on May 27 at Arlington National Cemetery. While Lyon was living in South Bend, Lyon became close friends with Reverend Julius A. Nieuwland, CSC, whom was a botanist and was a chemist at the University of Notre Dame. Lyon and Julius attended field trips together and collected plant specimens which were later added to his second herbarium, which he worked on during his spare time with the extra help from his wife. Lyon was known for his love of nature. In an Obituary written by someone unknown he was considered an “ardent conservationist” later on in his life. He criticised poorly managed conservation programs in his paper “conservation from the Naturalist’s Point of View” In his final draft, “ The Kankakee Area Its past and Present,” he envisioned life around the Kankakee Outwash Plain before human activities had changed it. Lyon has also given up his small cottage in the Indiana Dunes after a wildlife refuge decided to turn it into a vacation