A Sesquicentennial Anthology

Contributions by

Lyons & Donohoe Families

By Robert F. Lyons

Imprints on Yankton

1910 onwards

Dakota Sunrise - by Nona

• James A. Donohoe moves Iowa family to Yankton 1910 >>More

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  James A . Donohoe 1857-1946 

• Another of Yankton's respected old citizens passed... >More

• WILLIAM AND MARY

• Their Lives and Times
  By Frank Lyons

THE MIDDLE YEARS TOGETHER        

(1936 to 1946)

Wedding - 1928 - Donohoe Farm

 ....Bill’s social consciousness and volunteerism for the 4-H Clubs, the school board, and the fire department instilled in his children an example and an incentive for them to volunteer for community service.  More>>

• Yankton Farmer Honored - Pat Lyons - Master Pork Producer 1972

•  SIOUX FALLS S.D. -- "There are still some good opportunities for young men to get into farming," says Pat Lyons...Master Pork Producer 1972.  More>>

• Rep. Tim Johnson, (D-SD) leads delegation to Pat & Pearl Lyons Farm to observe R.E.A. - August 1987
  

• Mary Lyons, Pat’s mother, gave a history lesson on farming and the R.E.A. in South Dakota to the delegation. More>

• Jack & Margaret Lyons, Citizens of Year Award 2010 for Community & Civic Service in Yankton 

• …Jack and Margaret taught music for many years …volunteered with Keep Yankton Beautiful,  Cramer-Kenyon Heritage Home, Lewis and Clark Theatre Company, Habitat for Humanity, Yankton Retired Teachers, nursing homes and various other entities.More>>

• 1st Willowdale School Reunion 2007 Lyons Farm 

• Bill Lyons on School Committee. Yankton  Press & Dakotan  2007>More

• 1st Day - Willowdale School 1943

• Fr row: Tom, Bob, Betty

• Bk row: Gene, Frank, Jack

Lyons, Donohoe Families Gather

For Sesquicentennial Reunion

Published: Saturday, June 11, 2011 1:13 AM CDT

THE LYONS AND DONOHOE families of Yankton held a reunion on Sesqui-centennial Weekend June 4th and 5th. Journeying from afar to join the families of Pat & Pearl Lyons and Jack and Margaret Lyons were brothers with their wives: Frank and Jean, Illinois, Gene, Kentucky, Tom and Marcia, Texas, Bob and Nona, Maine. The three Donohoe brothers joining the celebration were Jim, Texas, George, California, and Jerry, Illinois >>More

CLICK>>>Photo Album by Jerry Donohoe

Imprints on State

1880s onwards

• Politix in Dakota. Richard F. Lyons, Delegate Constitutional Convention - 1889, by T.D. Lyons

...to Dakota Territory. There he was befriended by Mr. R. F. Pettigrew, the Republican boss of Dakota Territory who invited him to organize the Democratic Party [which] led to the the beginning of a friendship which ended only with the Senator's life. More>>

• Richard F. Lyons, 'IDEAL PIONEER COUPLE': 1932 Practically grew up with the State of South Dakota. >More

• The Pioneer of the Rosebud: History of Tripp County, SD by Dennis (D.B. Lyons) 1933....I find myself almost at the quarter century of the development of this county. With the dreams of 25 years vanished, with fancy's pictures faded, with youth gone and age here, with economic disaster spreading despair in its wake, with drought and grass- hoppers making our land uninhabitable.... a still voice whispers to me; "Backward turn Backward, Oh time in your flight!" >More
  

• Robert Emmett Lyons, Uncle, SD Legislator(1909-1995)...His life spanned the generations from homesteaders and sodbusters to farmers and ranchers. His stories chronicled the grandeur and severity of life on the Plains.>More

Bob Lyons (D-SD) State

Senator 1977 -1979

• A South Dakota Guide Federal Writers Project1938
  

• VISITORS who come to South Dakota for the first time expecting to see near-naked Indians, gun-toting cowboys, and Calamity Janes will be disillusioned. ....Recurrence of such early hardships as drought and grasshoppers, with the addition of a new one, the dust storm...failed to discourage the tenacious people. More>>

Yankton Discovery Bridge connects with Nebraska 2008

• Yankton Tour 1938 Federal Writers Guide

• Yankton (6,759 pop.) was the capital of Dakota Territory [1861-1883] before South Dakota and North Dakota were divided, and most of the State's early history had Yankton as its setting. More>>

• South Dakota - Yankton Territorial Capital (1861-1883) Statehood * Federal Writers Guide More>>

Irish Colony, Immigrants & Orphan Trains in Yankton

On Occasion of 150th Anniversary of Dakota Territorial Capital 1861-1883

• Vision of Irish Community in Yankton by Corkman 1869
• Irish Immigration Convention

• Walshtown established by Irish born Father Sheehan 1881
• Irish Orphan Trains Boston to Yankton 1883
• Song of the Orphan Train
  

By Robert F. Lyons

THE FIRST IRISH immigrants were drawn to Yankton in 1869 by John Pope Hodnett of Chicago, a native Irishman from Cork who had been appointed assessor of internal revenue for Dakota Territory by President Ulysses S. Grant. Mr. Hodnett worked heartily to build up and develop Dakota Territory and to encourage the tide of immigration which was flowing out from the Eastern states. He had a dream to establish an Irish colony in Yankton, the territorial capital.

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More Donohoe & Lyons documents, stories & photos are available at

wlliammaryLyons.com More>>

bob_lyons@hotmail.com

Yankton Sesquicentennial Celebration June 2011