Tulare County Biographies

MICHAEL M. LYNCH

Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn

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     In the county of Limerick, Ireland, Michael M. Lynch was born in 1849. 
There he was reared to manhood and educated and when he was twenty years old, he 
and a cousin came with his brother, who has been in New York a year, to 
California via Panama. In his native land he had worked on farms and in order to 
get a start in America, had made up his mind to come west. California had been 
his objective point, and in his journey to the other side of the continent he 
was destined to encounter discouraging vicissitudes. The vessel on which he 
started was disabled and wrecked and put back into New York harbor twice. Then 
he made a successful departure and came to San Francisco, arriving in June, 
1869. After a short stay in the Bay City, he went to Santa Cruz county, where he 
remained from late in 1869 until in April, 1873. Then, locating in Tulare 
county, he pre-empted and homesteaded land and engaged in farming and raising 
horses, sheep, hogs and cattle and was so successful that he was enabled to buy 
land from time to time until he owned more than two thousand acres.
 
     At this time, Mr. Lynch, though he has sold off a considerable acreage, 
retains a large holding. In the days when he farmed and ran cattle he had many 
exciting encounters with cattle thieves. He sold the last of his cattle about a 
year ago and at his ranch, seven miles and a half northeast of Porterville, is 
living in retirement from active enterprise, or as he expressed it is �taking 
life easy.� He has been too busy to take any active part in political work, but 
he has always been deeply interested in economic questions and has been ready at 
all times to do his utmost for the welfare of the community.
 
     In 1885, Mr. Lynch married Miss Fannie Grant, a native of Ireland, who has 
been a resident of California since 1880. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, Pp 521

 



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