Lyon, Marcus Ward, 1875-1942.

Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr., M.D., Ph. D., was a professor of physiology, bacteriology and zoology at Howard University, 1903-1915, and George Washington University, 1915-1918, and pathologist at the Walter Reed General Hospital, 1917-1919. He was an authority on the natural history of the dunes region of Indiana. His wife Martha, born Martha Brewer, was also a medical doctor.

From the description of Family papers, 1887-1942. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 25233810

Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr., (1875-1942) was born on February 5, 1875, in Arsenal, Illinois. He attended Brown University earning a Ph.B., and George Washington University where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. He worked at the United States National Museum from 1900 to 1912, at one point as an assistant curator in the Division of Mammals. He taught at several area institutions in the fields of zoology, bacteriology, parasitology, and pathology. During World War I, he worked as a pathologist at the Walter Reed General Hospital, and in 1919 he was appointed to be a major in the Medical Reserve Corps. He died in 1942.

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