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LYNCH, John Roy, representative, was born in Concordia Parish, La., Sept. 10, 1847; son of Patrick and Catherine Lynch. He was a mulatto, and after his father's death he was carried with his mother to Natchez. Miss., where they were held as slaves. After emancipation he engaged in photography and obtained a fair education by attending evening school. In 1869 he was ap- pointed justice of the peace by General Ames, military governor of Mississippi. He was a rep- resentative in the state legislature, 1869-73, and speaker of the house, 1872-73; was a represen- tative from the sixth district of Mississippi in the 43d and 44th congresses, 1873-77; claimed to have been counted out by the Democrats in 1876 for the 45th congress. General Chalmers being seated, and in 1880 he defeated Chalmers and served in the 47th congress, 1881-83. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions at Philadelphia, June 5, 1872, Chicago, June 8, 1884, and June 19, 1888, and Minneapolis, June 7, 1892. He was elected temporary chair- man of the Chicago convention of 1884; made a speech seconding the nomination of Chester A. Arthur for President, and was a member of the committee appointed to notify James G. Blaine of his nomination. In 1884 Mr. Lynch retired to his plantation in Adams county, Miss. He was chairman of Republican state executive com- mittee, 1881-89; and was appointed by President Harrison fourth auditor of the U.S. treasury, to succeed C. M. Slielly of Alabama. He was mar- ried Dec. 18, 1884, to Ella W., daughter of James A. and Mary E. Somerville, of Mobile, Ala. In the war with Spain in 1898, he was appointed by President McKinley a paymaster in the U.S. volunteer service. born in Clones, Ireland, March 10, 1817. His parents inmiigrated to the United States in 1819 and settled at Cheraw, S.C. Patrick attended Bishop England's Seminary of St. John the Bap- tist at Charleston, S.C. and in 1834 was sent by Bishop England to the Proimganda college, Rome. He was ordained prie.st, April 5, 1840, by the Cardinal Prefect, and returned to Charleston, where he was a.«»sistant at the cathedral, 1840-44; pastor of St. Mary's, Charleston, 1844-55, serving also as vicar-general of the diocese. In 1855 he became administrator to Bishop Reynolds, de- ceased, and governed the see until 1858, when he was elected his successor and was consecrated bishop of Charleston. March 14, IS.")?, by Arch- bishop F. P. Kenrick. assisted by Bisho|>8 Portier and Barry. He took personal charge of a yellow- fever hospital during the epidemic of 1848. and his own life was saved by the nursing of faithful sisters. Bishop Lynch was a firm supporter of the South in the civil war. In 1861 a fire broke
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out in Charleston, destroying the cathedral and the bishop's house, and during the subsequent siege bis people were greatly scattered. He was sent by the Confederate authorities on a special mission to France, intended to counteract the effect of Bishop Hughes's mission in behalf of the North. At the close of the war the rebuilding of such churclies and institutions as were absolutely necessary cost $150,000, and in addition he owed the sum of $100,000 to poor people who had intrusted him with their money. The latter part of his life was spent in col- lecting this money, which was all paid except $17,000 at the time of his death. He edited Deharbe's " Series of Cate- chisms," and is the author of an account of the Vatican council and The Blood of St. Jatntarins, published in the Catholic World and in book form. He died in Charleston, S.C, Feb.26, 1882.

LYNCH, Thomas, delegate, was born on the North Santee river, S.C, about 1720; son of Thomas Lynch, a pioneer cultivator of rice on the alluvial bottoms on tide water of South Car- olina; and of Austrian descent. He was edu- cated in Enrope, where he was a resident for several years. He was a wealthy planter on the North Santee river, in South Carolina, and a patriot in the Revolutionary struggle as early as 1765, when he was a delegate to the colo- nial congress and took an active part in the debate against the usurpation of parliament. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the Continental congress, 1774-76. He resigned his seat in con- gress in the spring of the latter year and returned to his home in South Carolina, where he died shortly after his arrival in 1776.

LYNCH, Thomas, signer, was born in the parish of Prince George, on the North Santee river, S.C, Aug. 5, 1749; son of Thomas Lynch, delegate. He was educated in England, studying at Eton and taking his degree at Cambridge uni- versity, and pursued a course of law in the Tem- ple, returning to America in 1772. He was mar- ried to a Miss Shubrick. On the outbreak of the Revolution he was commis.sioned captain in the Ist South Carolina provincials. Col. Christopher Gadsden, serving, 1775-76, and on the death of his