Lassen County CA Archives Biographies.....Lynch, Joseph 1812 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

JOSEPH LYNCH.—Mr. Lynch is the only survivor of the six men who wintered in
Honey Lake valley in 1855-56. He was born in County Dublin, Ireland, May 9,
1812. Being left an orphan when quite young, he went to sea at the age of
thirteen; a year later he stopped in Canada, and remained seven years on a farm.
At the age of nineteen he married Miss Achsa Finland. She died about two years
afterwards, and their only son, William, died in New York when fourteen years of
age. In 1833 Mr. Lynch moved to New York, and two years later to Wisconsin. He
arrived in San Francisco, from around the Horn, March 17, 1852. He mined until
the summer of 1855, when he came to Honey Lake valley with Peter Lassen, and has
ever since resided in the log house they built at that time. He has been engaged
in mining and ranching constantly. He is a democrat in politics.

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Extracted from:

Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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