Patrick J. Lyons, c. 1911. Elected mayor of Mobile in 1904, he was owner and

Courtesy of Erik Overbey Collection, University of South Alabama Archives

Patrick J. Lyons

Patrick J. Lyons, c. 1911. Elected mayor of Mobile in 1904, he was owner and operator of a brewery and a wholesale grocer at a time when prohibition was being pushed on the city. He was a friend and ally of "Mobile's newspaperman" Erwin Craighead.