Thomas Theodore Lynch (1848-1914)
LYNCH, BRADLEY, RUDESILL, BURKHALTER
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Tuesday September 8, 1914 Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette
THOMAS T. LYNCH CALLED BY DEATH
LONG PROMINENT IN BUSINESS HERE
PROPRIETOR FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS OF TRANSFER COMPANY, PASSES AWAY AT HOME.
Thomas T. Lynch, one of the pioneer business men of the city and proprietor for more than forty years of the Lynch Transfer company, passed away at the family residence, 1305 B avenue, at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. His death followed an illness of four weeks' duration and was the direct result of heart failure brought about by complications of other ailments. Mr. Lynch was 66 years of age, and had lived in Cedar Rapids during the greater part of his life.
Although the younger generation remembers Mr. Lynch only as proprietor of the Lynch Transfer company, he started the teaming business following twenty-eight years' services as passenger conductor on the Northwestern between Cedar Rapids and Clinton. Many of the older people remember when he had charge of the "accommodation," which plied between this city and the Mississippi in the early days of the railroad.
Mr. Lynch was born in Beachville, Canada, in 1848, and came to Iowa when a young man. While he was a conductor on the Northwestern he organized and conducted the transfer company which bears his name, and upon retiring from the road gave his entire attention to the business. He was united in marriage June 1, 1886, to Elvira Bradley, and soon after his marriage he was made superintendent and manager of the Cedar Rapids Gold Mining company at Hill City, South Dakota.
He is survived by Mrs. Lynch and five children, Misses Blossom and Genevieve and Donald, residing at home, Mrs. Louis D. Burkhalter, and Mrs. W.A. Bradley of Albert Lea, Minn. He is also survived by one sister, Sister Mary Andrew of St. Clara college, Sinsinawa, Minn. Mr. Lynch was a member of the O.R.C., and at the time he resigned from the services of the Northwester he was the oldest conductor in point of service on the road. He was a member of the Immaculate Conception church.
The funeral will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Immaculate Conception church.
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