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Lyon was born in [[Galion, Ohio]], the daughter of Aaron Jackson Lyon and Olive A. Weatherby Lyon.[{{Cite book |last=Leonard |first=John William |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005797288 |title=Woman's who's who of America: a biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 |last2=Leonard |first2=John W. |last3=American Commonwealth Company |date=1914 |publisher=American Commonwealth Co. |location=New York |pages=518}}] Her father was a [[Methodist Episcopal Church|Methodist Episcopal]] pastor. She graduated from [[Ohio Wesleyan University]] in 1880.[{{Cite journal |date=September 1930 |title=The Half-Century Class |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ohio_Wesleyan_Magazine/w7WpPRvJUfIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Clotilda%20Lyon%20McDowell&pg=PA14&printsec=frontcover |journal=Ohio Wesleyan Magazine |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=14}}] |
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Lyon was born in [[Galion, Ohio]], the daughter of Aaron Jackson Lyon and Olive A. Weatherby Lyon.[{{Cite book |last=Leonard |first=John William |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005797288 |title=Woman's who's who of America: a biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915 |last2=Leonard |first2=John W. |last3=American Commonwealth Company |date=1914 |publisher=American Commonwealth Co. |location=New York |pages=518}}] Her father was a [[Methodist Episcopal Church|Methodist Episcopal]] pastor. She graduated from [[Ohio Wesleyan University]] in 1880.[{{Cite journal |date=September 1930 |title=The Half-Century Class |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ohio_Wesleyan_Magazine/w7WpPRvJUfIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Clotilda%20Lyon%20McDowell&pg=PA14&printsec=frontcover |journal=Ohio Wesleyan Magazine |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=14}}] |
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McDowell taught school after college and before she married. She was a charter member of the Women's Club of Denver, while her husband was a college chancellor there.[{{Cite news |last=Muller |first=Amelia |date=1923-03-11 |title=Mrs. M'Dowell Embodiment of Mother Heart |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-mrs-mdowell-embodime/196075546/ |access-date=2026-04-22 |work=The Baltimore Sun |pages=64 |via=Newspapers.com}}][{{Cite journal |date=January 1919 |title=General Officers of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Woman_s_Missionary_Friend/Y6zNAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Jubilee&pg=PA2&printsec=frontcover |journal=Woman's Missionary Friend |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=2}}][{{Cite book |last=Welch |first=Herbert |url=http://archive.org/details/menofoutpostsrom0000unse |title=Men of the Outposts: The Romance of the Modern Christian Movement |date=1937 |publisher=The Abingdon Press |others= |pages=230-244 |via=Internet Archive}}] In 1910 and 1911 she visited church missions in the Philippines, Japan, Korea, China, India and Europe, and was a delegate to the [[1910 World Missionary Conference]].She retired as president of the WFMS in 1921, but remained active in the society's work.[{{Cite journal |last=Curtis |first=Mary Carr |date=February 1923 |title=Sisters Under the Skin |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Trident_of_Delta_Delta_Delta/OO_OAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Clotilda%20Lyon%20McDowell&pg=PA212&printsec=frontcover |journal=The Trident of Delta Delta Delta |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=212-213}}] The WFMS set up a fellowship fun named for her, after her retirement; it funded hundreds of women mission school graduates to attend colleges or receive other advanced training in the United States.[{{Cite journal |date=1924 |title=The Clotilde Lyon McDowell Fellowship Fund |url=https://archive.org/details/yearbookwomansfo1924woma/page/102/mode/2up?q=Clotilda+Lyon+McDowell |journal=Year Book of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church |pages=102 |via=Internet Archive}}][{{Cite journal |date=1928 |title=The Clotilda Lyon McDowell Fellowship Fund |url=https://archive.org/details/yearbookwomansfo1928woma/page/90/mode/2up?q=Clotilda+Lyon+McDowell |journal=Year Book of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church |pages=91 |via=Internet Archive}}] |
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McDowell taught school after college and before she married. She was a charter member of the Women's Club of Denver, while her husband was a college chancellor there.[{{Cite news |last=Muller |first=Amelia |date=1923-03-11 |title=Mrs. M'Dowell Embodiment of Mother Heart |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-mrs-mdowell-embodime/196075546/ |access-date=2026-04-22 |work=The Baltimore Sun |pages=64 |via=Newspapers.com}}][{{Cite journal |date=January 1919 |title=General Officers of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Woman_s_Missionary_Friend/Y6zNAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Jubilee&pg=PA2&printsec=frontcover |journal=Woman's Missionary Friend |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=2}}][{{Cite book |last=Welch |first=Herbert |url=http://archive.org/details/menofoutpostsrom0000unse |title=Men of the Outposts: The Romance of the Modern Christian Movement |date=1937 |publisher=The Abingdon Press |others= |pages=230-244 |via=Internet Archive}}] In 1910 and 1911 she visited church missions in the Philippines, Japan, Korea, China, India and Europe, and was a delegate to the [[1910 World Missionary Conference]]. |
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McDowell retired as president of the WFMS in 1921, but remained active in the society's work.[{{Cite journal |last=Curtis |first=Mary Carr |date=February 1923 |title=Sisters Under the Skin |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Trident_of_Delta_Delta_Delta/OO_OAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Clotilda%20Lyon%20McDowell&pg=PA212&printsec=frontcover |journal=The Trident of Delta Delta Delta |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=212-213}}] The WFMS set up a fellowship fun named for her, after her retirement; it funded hundreds of women mission school graduates to attend colleges or receive other advanced training in the United States.[{{Cite journal |date=1924 |title=The Clotilde Lyon McDowell Fellowship Fund |url=https://archive.org/details/yearbookwomansfo1924woma/page/102/mode/2up?q=Clotilda+Lyon+McDowell |journal=Year Book of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church |pages=102 |via=Internet Archive}}][{{Cite journal |date=1928 |title=The Clotilda Lyon McDowell Fellowship Fund |url=https://archive.org/details/yearbookwomansfo1928woma/page/90/mode/2up?q=Clotilda+Lyon+McDowell |journal=Year Book of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church |pages=91 |via=Internet Archive}}] |
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* "Forward from the Jubilee" (1919)[{{Cite journal |last=McDowell |first=Clotilda Lyon |date=December 1919 |title=Forward from the Jubilee |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Woman_s_Missionary_Friend/Y6zNAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Jubilee&pg=PA421&printsec=frontcover |journal=Woman's Missionary Friend |volume=51 |issue=12 |pages=421-422}}] |
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* "Forward from the Jubilee" (1919)[{{Cite journal |last=McDowell |first=Clotilda Lyon |date=December 1919 |title=Forward from the Jubilee |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Woman_s_Missionary_Friend/Y6zNAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Jubilee&pg=PA421&printsec=frontcover |journal=Woman's Missionary Friend |volume=51 |issue=12 |pages=421-422}}] |
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