Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Lynch, Jeremiah 1855 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 19, 2007, 9:26 pm Author: Chapman Bros. (1892) JEREMIAH LYNCH, attorney at law in Lapeer, Mich., was born in Burford, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada, October 7, 1855. He is a son of John and Catherine (Fahey) Lynch, natives of Ireland who came to Canada before their acquaintance and marriage. John Lynch came to America more on a tour of inspection than for permanent location but liked it so well that he remained on this side of the ocean, although he did not remove to Michigan until Jeremiah was some four or five years of age, when they located near Otter Lake, Lapeer County, where he still resides upon his rich and highly cultivated farm. As a boy, our subject worked on the farm and as a trapper, hunter, and laborer in the lumber woods. In the meanwhile gaining all the education that he could and undertaking teaching at the age of twenty. He also clerked for about a year in a general store and having saved his wages he then took an English and Latin course at Lapeer High Schools and was graduated in June, 1881. The next fall he went to Ann Arbor where he entered the Law Department of the University and kept up his studies therein besides doing the work assigned to the literary department. He had already read Blackstone thoroughly before going to the University and was graduated March 28, 1883. The young lawyer now located in Lapeer, being-admitted to the bar by Judge Joslyn, of Washtenaw County, and he has met with a good degree of success. He was employed in the famous Newbury case in which he won the suit for his client Mrs. Newbury. Another notable case in which he won his suit was the Gates and Bullock case. He is a Democrat as is his father and has taken an active part in political affairs. As City Attorney, which office he held for four years, he drafted a number of ordinances and it has often been remarked of them that those ordinances would "hold water." Through his efforts when lie was Secretary and Chairman of the Democratic County Committee the party has gained greater success than before and succeeded in electing a Democratic Sheriff and Prosecuting attorney against a majority of six or seven hundred on the Republican side. Mr. Lynch was married November 24, 1886, to Miss Julia E. Wood, of Fenton, Genesee County, by whom he has two children, Grace, born in 1889 and James Russell, June 14, 1891. He and his good wife are both active members of the Roman Catholic Church and in that faith they are bringing up their children. He owns forty acres in Marathon Township, and has a good house and barn and an excellent orchard thereon. He of whom we write is well and favorably known to the people of Lapeer. He stands high in his profession and is gaining a good share of the practice which should naturally be his. He owns a dwelling in Lapeer which is a very fine one, also one in Imlay and a factory building in Lapeer County. At his home he has an extensive library containing a most valuable collection of books. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of the Presidents of the United States Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/lapeer/bios/lynch14bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mifiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb