Samuel David Lyon
Sam is my grandfather; my father's father. He has a long history working in the shoe industry. Beginning about 1900 in St. Loius, he rose to the ranks of a foreman. The details are unclear, but strikes and other labor issues had him working in Memphis TN in 1906/1907. Shortly before my father's birth in 1913, Sam moved to Junction City KS working for J. C. Teitzel, a bootmaker with a good reputation for
cavalry boots at nearby Ft Riley.
His family joined him and soon they moved to Wichita KS where he open his own shop: Central Shoe Shop.
Sam and his grandson Leon Stanley in front of his shop, ca 1925
Interior of Central Shoe Shop, ca 1925
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He mailed this letter to the neighborhood:
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