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Lynch Family
This well-known name is
borne by the descendants of many immigrants who came at various times to various
parts of the present United States. The family now under consideration has been
settled in America from colonial days.
(I) John
Lynch, the founder of this family, was born in Ireland; about 1742, and came
from Ireland to this country near 1763 and settled in what is now Pbcahontas
county. West Virginia. At one time he was the owner
of five hundred acres of land opposite the present city of Cincinnati. Ohio. He
married Mary Moore, of Irish descent but American birth, of Pocahontas county, now West Virginia.
Children: John, of whom further: Levi and
George.
(II) John (2), son
of John (1) and Mary (Moore) Lynch, married Isabella, daughter of Colonel Isaac
Gregory. Children: Sarah, Polly,
Isaac. George. John, Isabella, Adam, of whom
further; Susann, Betsy, Nancy and James.
(III) Adam, son of John (2) and Isabella
(Gregory) Lynch, was born near Webster Springs, Webster county,
Virginia, and died in Grassy Creek, Webster county,
Virginia. There also he was buried. He married Sarah, daughter of William
and Elizabeth (Friend) Arthur. William Arthur was one of the first settlers at
Webster Springs; his wife was a daughter of Colonel
Joseph Friend, a well-known pioneer and army officer, who was the builder of
Friend's fort, in Randolph county, Virginia, now
West Virginia. Children: Margaret, Mary, Jane,
Columbia, Francena, George A., Lee, Vanlinden S., of whom
further.
(IV) Vanlinden S., son of Adam and Sarah
(Arthur) Lynch, was born at Webster Springs,
October 25, 1855. In his
earlier life he was a farmer, but he has now
for many years been
interested in oil and gas. His residence is at Buckhannon, West Virginia. He married (first) Parmelia, daughter of
Jacob P. and Elizabeth (Alkire) Conrad, who died December, 1885; (second)
Thursey, daughter of Colonel Currence B. and Ann (Haymond) Conrad, of Glenville,
Gilmer county, West Virginia. The Conrad family is
well-known in the history of what is now West Virginia.
Jacob P. Conrad was son of John Conrad, born July 15, 1784, died
September 8, 1854. and Elizabeth Currence, born April 16, 1788, died September
3, 1846. They married in 1807, and had nine children. This John Conrad was born
in Pendleton county, Virginia, and his father, also
named John Conrad, was for twenty years a member of the Virginia legislature. John Conrad Sr., is said to have
built the first stone house in what is now West Virginia,
west of the mountains, and is believed to have married a daughter of
Colonel Rutherford, of Jefferson county, Virginia.
Elizabeth (Alkire) Conrad was niece of Jonathan Bennett, of Weston, Virginia, one of the most prominent of Virginians living
west of the Alleghanies; Louis Bennett and George
Bennett, of Weston, West Virginia, are his sons
Children of Vanlinden S. and Parmelia (Conrad) Lynch: Frederick Lee, of whom
further; Orin Benedum, of whom further; Charles Patrick, of whom further;
Tamblyn, died at the age of four.
(V) Frederick Lee,
son of Vanlinden S. and Parmelia (Conrad) Lynch, was born at Webster Springs, October 29, 1878. His education included
the course at the West Virginia Wesleyan College,
Buckhannon, from which he graduated in 1904. After finishing his college work he
made a study of civil engineering. In this capacity he has been in the service
of the Republic of Bolivia, in South America, and has since leaving that country
visited Mexico also, in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
While he was in Mexico, Mr. Lynch became interested in oil and gas; he now has
large mining interests in that country', and real estate holdings in Texas and
Oklahoma. He is general manager of the San Lorenzo Mining Company, of
Parkersburg, West Virginia, and of the
Parkersburg-Buckhannon Oil and Gas Company. Further, he is largely interested in
the Alkire Oil and Gas Company and in other oil and gas properties. He is a
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1909 Mr. Lynch was appointed
assistant clerk in the house of delegates of West
Virginia. He has not married. He has traveled in England, France, the
Canary Islands, and all o-ver South America, Mexico and
Canada.
(V) Orin Benedum, son of Vanlinden S. and
Parmelia (Conrad) Lynch, was born November 21, 1879. He is a graduate of the
academic department of the West Virginia Wesleyan College and the medical department of the University of
Louisville. Louisville. Kentucky. In June, 1913, he was united in marriage to
Olive Dunn, of Mobscot, Raleigh
county, West Virginia.
(V) Charles Patrick, son of Vanlinden S. and
Parmelia (Conrad) Lynch, was born at Hacker's Valley, Webster county. West Virginia, October 15, 1881. He has
studied at several institutions of advanced grade, the West Virginia Wesleyan College, Weaverville College at
Weaverville, North Carolina, and the medical department of the University of
Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, but is not a graduate. During the years
since 1905 Mr. Lynch has spent a large part of his time on the west coast of Mexico, in the states of Sonora and Sinaloa, and he has gained a
wide acquaintance with the people of that region and with business conditions
there. He is interested in Mexican mining properties; seven years ago, in 1906,
he was one of four to denounce the now wellknown San Lorenzo mine, in Arizpe
district, state of Sonora, Mexico. Mr. Lynch's home is at Buckhannon,
West Virginia.
He married, at Paul's
Valley, Indian Territory, May 27, 1903, Willie, daughter of Rev. William and
Martha (Henry) Boyd, of Dexter, Texas. Children: Wilma, born October 18, 1904;
Boyd Conrad, born January 10, 1911.
[Source: West Virginia and Its People, Volume 3 By Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell
- Transcribed by AFOFG]