Chittenden P Lyon Jr House
- Also Known As: Professor Hanson Boring's Private School also Casner House also "Old S
- Address: 304 Union St
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1857/00/00 | Chittenden Patton Lyon | Home | A large brick residence is built on the southern half of the "Whobrey Lot" which runs from Union to Franklin Street for dry-goods merchant Chittenden P Lyon. | |||
1879/00/00 | Hanson Boring | Work | Chittenden P Lyon's widow, Nannie Collins Lyon, selld the home to her brother-in-law and sister, Professor Hanson Boring and Mattie Collins Boring. | |||
1900/00/00 | Hanson Boring | Work | Until 1900, Hanson and his wife, Martha, operate a regionally-renowned school in the Lyon house. The Professor leads academic courses on the 2nd floor and Mrs Boring teaches music and piano on the 1st. | |||
1902/00/00 | Mrs Laura A Pritchett, proprietor of the Hotel Lucille (lost) in Madisonville and aunt of Mrs Mary Laffoon, wife of Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon, buys the Lyon House. She will stay here until 1904. | |||||
1905/00/00 | J F Dempsey, a local lawyer who was at one time county court judge of Hopkins County and Railroad Commissioner from the Western Kentucky District, buys the Pritchett house. | |||||
1922/00/00 | Franklin G Bowmer, a local druggist, purchases the residence from Judge J F Dempsey. |
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