John Daniel Lynch Biography


	This biography appears on page 611 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				JOHN DANIEL LYNCH. 

	John Daniel Lynch has already gained a creditable position at the 
bar of South Dakota, being regarded as one of the leading attorneys of 
Sioux Falls, where he has engaged in practice since 1910. He was born 
in New Hampton, Iowa, May 12, 1882, and is the son of John M. and Maria 
T. (Kerby) Lynch, the former of whom was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1855 
and now lives in Sioux City, Iowa. The grandfather of the subject of 
this review, John Lynch, was a native of Ireland. 

	Following the completion of his high-school course John D. Lynch 
entered the State University at Iowa City and there studied law, 
receiving his degree in 1905. He was admitted to the bar in the same 
year and located for practice in Sioux City, Iowa, where he remained 
until 1910. In that year he removed to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and 
here he has since engaged in professional work. He has a thorough and 
comprehensive knowledge of the law and has already met with excellent 
success. He has built up a representative practice and has proved 
capable in the conduct of important litigation. In 1914 he was 
nominated by the democratic party for district attorney of Minnehaha 
county and, although the county is strongly republican, he was defeated 
by a comparatively few votes, carrying the city of Sioux Falls by a 
substantial majority. 

	On the 30th of October, 1907, at Helena, Montana, Mr. Lynch was 
united in marriage to Miss Ella E. Hazard, a daughter of George Hazard, 
and both are well known in Sioux Falls. Mr. Lynch is a member of the 
Catholic church, belongs to the Elks Club and the Knights of Columbus, 
and gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. Although 
still a young man, he occupies a most enviable position among the 
attorneys of the state.