Contra Costa-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Lynch, William 1827 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

WILLIAM LYNCH.—Is the son of William and Elizabeth (Smith) Lynch and was born in
New York, July 28, 1827. At the age of fifteen years, he commenced the battle of
life as an apprentice to the carpenter's trade, and at the end of five years
launched forth as a full-fledged journeyman, in New York City, for two years
more. Determining, however, to try his fortune in some other part of the world,
Mr. Lynch sailed from New York in the month of December, 1848, in the pilot-boat
W. G. Hackstaff, via the Straits of Magellan, for San Francisco, at which place
he was finally landed, after some six months buffeting with the winds and waves,
June 28, 1849. In the Bay City he worked at his trade until the Fall of 1850,
when he came to Contra Costa county, and, with Leo Norris, located in the San
Ramon valley, where he embarked in farming, an occupation he still continues on
his ranch, comprising three hundred and fifty acres of valuable land. Mr. Lynch
married in April, 1853, Mary L. Norris, a native of Illinois, and has five
children, viz: Leo, Mary, Naonie, Jane and Minnie.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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