Birth: 1718 ca.
Death: 1794
Occupation: doctor

Associated Counties

• Baltimore City

Additional Information

• Dates: 1746
  Notes: “Dr. William Lyon establishes a drug store, corner Market (now Baltimore) street and Calvert. (The first in Baltimore).”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 12
• Dates: 1746
  Notes: Dr. William Lyon establishes the first drug store in Baltimore Town (corner Baltimore and Calvert Streets), for the sale of “chemicals and Galenicals.”
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 651
• Dates: 1748
  Notes: “Dr. Wm. Lyon subscribes to keep the town fence in repair.”
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 651
• Dates: 1750
  Notes: “Whereas several persons permit stinking fish and dead creatures or carrion to lie on their lots, or in the street near their doors, which are a very offensive nuisance and contrary to Acts of Assembly, the Commissioners therefore order the clerk to put up advertisements to inform such persons that they are to remove the same. Resolve, That Dr. Wm. Lyon be a committee of one to enforce the same.” (MS. Rec. of Baltimore. This is the first health ordinance of the town extant.)
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 651
• Dates: 1750
  Notes: “‘Whereas several persons permit stinking fish and dead creatures or carrion to lie on their lots, or in the street near their doors, which are a very offensive nuisance and contrary to acts of Assembly, the commissioners therefore order the clerk to put up advertisements to inform such persons that they are to remove the same. Resolve that Dr. Wm. Lyon be a committee of one to enforce the same’ (MSS. records of Baltimore town). This is the first Baltimore health ordinance extant.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 12
• Dates: 1750
  Notes: Member, Board of Health (as City Com.)
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 263
• Dates: 1750
  Notes: In the infancy of the town, the duties of [the Health Department]] were performed by the City Commissioners, who passed an ordinance requiring the citizens to remove nuisances from before their houses, and appointed one of their members, Dr. Wm. Lyon, to see it enforced, 1750.
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 257
• Dates: 1750
  Notes: Served as Baltimore City Land Commissioner, 1750
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 249
• Dates: 1752
  Notes: “Dr. Wm Lyon subscribes for a market house.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 12
• Dates: 1752
  Notes: Dr. Wm. Lyon subscribes for a market-house and town hall.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 652
• Dates: 1758
  Notes: Served as Baltimore City Magistrate, 1758
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 248
• Dates: 1759
  Notes: Mr. Steiger, a butcher, purchases of Dr. Wm. Lyon, the wooded marsh in the bend of the Falls for a pasturage.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 653
• Dates: 1763
  Notes: “Dr. Wm. Lyon et al lease a lot S.W. corner Gay and Baltimore streets for a market house.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 13
• Dates: 1763
  Notes: Dr. Wm. Lyon and others lease a lot, at northwest corner of Gay and Baltimore Streets, for a market house.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 654
• Dates: 1763
  Notes: Drs. H. Stevenson and Lyon aid in founding a Presbyterian Church on East (now Fayette) Street.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 654
• Dates: 1772
  Notes: The practicing physicians at and near Baltimore Town are Drs. Lyon, Wiesenthal, Hulse, Stenhouse, Pue, Stevenson, Boyd, Cradock, Hazlett, Gray and Coulter.
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 656
• Dates: 1794
  Notes: “Dr. Wm. Lyon ob. aet. 76.”
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 18
• Dates: 1794
  Notes: Deaths: Drs. John Cradock, aet. 45; Moses Dorling, aet. 60; John Griffin, aet. 24; William Lyon, aet. 66
  Source: Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy, Medical Annals of Maryland 1799-1899 Baltimore: The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty for the State of Maryland: 668
• Dates: 1798
  Notes: LYON, Dr. WILLIAM, d. by 14 April 1798, with Samuel Tagart exec. of the will. Tagart pet. the court that Robert Lyon has often and repeatedly refused to produce the effects of his late father. Tagart asked that the court to compel Robert Lyon to comply (Information filed 14 Feb 1798 Robert Lyon; Pet. BA, 1798).

  [For more on the Lyon family, see The Green Spring Valley, Its History and Heritage, 2 vols. by Dawn F. Thomas and Robert Barnes; see also Baltimore County Families, 1659-1750 by Robert Barnes]
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• Dates: 1798
  Notes: Served on Committee of Observation, 1798
  Source: Quinan, John Russell, Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880, including Events, Men and Literature to which is added a Subject Index and Record of Public Services Baltimore: Press of Isaac Friedenwald: 249