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Lynch, John – Lyon, Chittenden

Lynch, John

merchant, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 15, 1825, in Portland, Maine. He served two terms in the state legislature. He was elected a representative from Maine to the thirtyninth congress; and was re-elected to the fortieth, forty-first and forty-second congresses as a republican.

Lynch, John

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 1, 1843, in Providence, R.

I. Since 1865 he has been in the active practice of law in Wilkesbarre, Pa. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.

Lynch, John Roy

jurist, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1847, in Concordia parish, La. In 1869 he was appointed a justice of the peace in Natchez, Miss. He was elected to the state legislature from Adams county in 1870; and re-elected in 1871. He was elected to the forty-third congress, and re-elected to the forty-fourth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.

Lynch, Thomas

congressman, was born about 1720, in South Carolina. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1774 to 1776. He had also been a delegate to the colonial congress in 1765. He died in 1776, in South Carolina.

Lynch, Thomas

signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born Aug. 5, 1749, in Prince George parish, S. C. In 1775 he was commissioned a captain in the militia service. In 1776 he was elected a delegate to the continental congress, and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Lynch, Thomas

lawyer, legislator, mayor, congressman, was born Nov. 21, 1844, in Milwaukee county, Wis. He was a member of the Wisconsin legislature in 1873 and 1883; and was district attorney of the county from 1878 to 1882. In 1883 he moved to Antigo, where he now resides. He was mayor of Antigo in 1885 and again in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-second and re-elected to the fiftythird congress as a democrat.

Lynde, Benjamin

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 4, 1700, in Salem, Mass. He became judge of sessions and common pleas, and in 1745 succeeded his father as chief justice of the colony of Massachusetts. He died Oct. 9, 1781, in Salem, Mass.

Lyndon, Josiah

governor, was born March 10, 1724, in Newport, R. I. He was governor of the state of Rhode Island in 1768. He died March 30, 1778, in Warren, R. I.

Lynds, William B

educator, poet.

He is a successful educator, and for many years superintendent of public instruction of Wheeler county, Neb. He has also been successful in fruit-growing. He has contributed extensively to current literature on educational topics; and his poems have been published in a volume entitled Poetical Works.

Lynn, George

journalist, lawyer, poet, was born Feb. 7, 1822, in England.

For thirty-five years he was a journalist in Lockport, Ill.; and since 1887 in Hastings, Neb., where he now practices law. For awhile he was editor and owner of Our Own Opinion; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems.

Lyon, Anne Bozeman

author, was born in 1860, in Alabama. She is a southern writer of fiction; and the author of No Saint; and A Sterlings Camp.

Lyon, Chittenden

legislator, congressman, was born in 1786, in Vermont. He served in both houses of the Kentucky state legislature; and was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1827 to 1835. He was the son of Matthew Lyon. He died Nov. 8, 1842, in Caldwell county, Ky.