Person:John Lyle (24)

John Lyle was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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1. ↑ Lyle Family Photographic Collection at Kentucky Digital Library [1].

   ... Rev. John Lyle Jr. (1769-1825) was a Presbyterian pastor and theologian, famous for writing Order(a sermon against the frontier revival) and the Circular Letter to the Synod of Kentucky. He also founded a popular religious group ("New Lights") during the Great Revival, and operated private schools and a printing shop. ...

2.   Green, Thomas Marshall. Historic families of Kentucky: with special reference to stocks immediately derived from the valley of Virginia, tracing in detail their various genealogical connexions [sic] and illustrating from historic sources their influence upon the political and social development of Kentucky and the states of the South t and West. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Regional Pub. Co., 1964).

   ... A third daughter, Flora [Reid], married John Lyle; and Rev. John Lyle, who taught a female seminary at Paris, and established the "Citizen," was one of their sons. This latter married the widow Lapsley, whose maiden name was Irvine, and who was a sister of the wives of Samuel McDowell, of Mercer, and Colonel Joseph McDowell, of Danville. One of their sons was John Lyle, of Boyle county, who also married an Irvine. ...

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 .

   BIBLE OF JOEL REID LYLE OF FAYETTE CO., KY, in McAdams, Harry Kennett Mrs. Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records, 269, Secondary quality.
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   ... Rev. John Lyle was born Oct. 20, 1769. ...
   ... Rev. John Lyle died at his res. in Paris, Ky., July 22, 1825. ...