1803

Tuesday, May 10, 1803

In Shelburne, Vt. the boy afterwards known as "Captain Dan Lyon," was born.  A lad of five when the steamboat Vermont was launched at Burlington in 1808, he could remember the first steamboat on the lake and her quaint captain, John Winans.  When Dan Lyon grew up he, too, became a "captain" and commanded successively the General Green, Phoenix No. 2, Winooski, and Whitehall, retiring about 1844 and spending his latter years in Burlington.