biography of Sidney S. LYONS (XIX)

Birth place: Ohio

Addresses: Cincinnati, 1826 until at least 1859; Louisville, KY, active 1848-51

Profession: Portrait painter

Studied: Europe, before 1826

Exhibited: Cincinnati Academy, 1939, 1841

Comments: He had studios in Cincinnati and then in Louisville and was a topographer for the first U.S. geological survey in KY in 1854-57.

Sources: G&W; Cist, Cincinnati in 1841, 140; Cist, Cincinnati in 1859, 202; information courtesy Mrs. W.H. Whitley, Paris (Ky.). Hageman, 119.