Browse Items (1 total) Tags: Insurance Salesman Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Added James C. Lyons Photograph of James C. Lyons (died April 15, 1942). Real estate dealer and insurance salesman of Decatur. He came to Decatur in 1890 and was employed by Linn and Scruggs Co. for 8 years. About 1905 he entered the real estate and insurance business.… Tags: 1940, biography, Decatur Herald and Review, Decatur IL., Dry Goods, Fire Commissioners, Insurance Salesman, James C. Lyons, Knights of Pythias Lodge, Linn & Scruggs Co., Maroa IL., real estate dealer, Township Assessor, VanDeventer of Decatur