History of Waimea, (Honolulu County) Hawaii United States of America

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Albert Brown Lyons, chemist, was born in Waimea, Hawaii, April, 1, 1841; son of the Rev. Lorenzo and Lucia Garratt (Smith) Lyons and a descendant of William Lyon, of Middlesex county, England, who came to Roxbury, Mass., in 1635. His parents were missionaries on a station remote from any town and he received his primary education at home. He attended Oahu college, 1857-63, and was graduated at Williams college, Massachusetts, A.B., 1865, A.M., 1868; University of Michigan, M.D., 1868. He was professor of chemistry, Detroit Medical college, 1868-80; consulting chemist for Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, 1681-86; and edited the Pharmaceutical Era, 1887. He returned in 1688 to the Hawaiian Islands where he was employed by the government as expert chemist and by the trustees of Oahu college as professor of chemistry. In 1897 He returned to the United States to accept the position of consulting chemist and secretary of the firm of Nelson, Baker & Co., Detroit, manufacturing pharmacists. He was made a member of the committee of revision of U.S. Pharmacoepia in 1900. He is the author of: Manual of Pharmaceutical Assaying (1887); Practical Assaying of Drugs and Galeniculs (1899); Plant Names, Scientific and Popular (1900).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Waimea, (Honolulu County) Hawaii

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