William F. Lyon
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William F. Lyon | |
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Born | 16 June 1811 Chatham, New York |
Died | 5 February 1887 (75) [1] Adrian City, Michigan |
Nationality | American |
Noted work(s) | The Hollow Globe; or the World's Agitator and Reconciler (with M. L. Sherman, 1871) |
Spouse(s) | Catharine [Pulver] (m. 1835) |
William Fletcher Lyon (June 16, 1811 - February 5, 1887) was an American Spiritualist writer, notably as co-author/editor of books with trance medium M. L. Sherman, including The Hollow Globe (1871), in which it is claimed that the "globe is constructed in the form of a hollow sphere, and that the interior surface which is a beautiful world in a more highly developed condition than the exterior, is accessible by a circuitous and spirally formed aperture that may be found in the unexplored open Polar Sea, and this opening affords easy navigation, by a broad and deep channel leading from one surface to the other," etc.[H]
Selected Bibliography
- Sherman, M. L.; Lyon, Wm. F. (1871), The Hollow Globe; or the World's Agitator and Reconciler: A Treatise on the Physical Conformation of the Earth, Chicago: Religio-Philosophical Publishing House, https://archive.org/details/hollowglobeorwor00sher — [described as a received text, "Presented Through the Organism of" M. L. Sherman, with Lyon acting as an editor.]
- Sherman, M. L.; Lyon, Wm. F. (1877), The Gospel of Nature, Chicago: Hazlitt & Reed, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005921553
References
- ↑ Miller, Robert B., ed. (1907), "729. VI. 288. WILLIAM FLETCHER LYON", Lyon Memorial, New York Families Descended from the Immigrant Thomas Lyon, of Rye, Detroit: Press of William Graham Printing Co., p. 163-164, https://archive.org/stream/lyonmemorial02mill#page/162/mode/2up, retrieved 2017-02-23