Albro Lyons Sr. was a New Yorker of mixed heritage who advocated for educational opportunities and worked to free slaves. There is a double

ambrotype The ambrotype (from grc, ἀμβροτός — “immortal”, and — “impression”) also known as a collodion positive in the UK, is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process. Like a pr ...

of he and his wife. His daughter

Maritcha Remond Lyons Maritcha Remond Lyons (May 23, 1848 – January 28, 1929) was an American educator, civic leader, suffragist, and public speaker in New York City and Brooklyn, New York. She taught in public schools in Brooklyn for 48 years, and was the second bla ...

wrote a memoir about the family. His boarding house for seamen was an important stop on the

underground railroad The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. ...

. He was a member of the

New York African Society for Mutual Relief The African Society for Mutual Relief was a mutual aid organization established in New York City in 1808. Its building was attacked in the 1834 anti-abolition riots. Leaders of the group included William Hamilton, its first president; Cato Alexan ...

. His son Albro Lyons Jr. lived from 1854 until 1906.

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