Wm J Lynch - Chicago Bld Contractor - Bio b 1889
WILLIAM JOSEPH LYNCH is a Chicago building contractor, now president of the W. J. Lynch Company. His own organization and others with which he has been officially connected have an impressive record in the con-structural progress of Chicago during the last decade.
Mr. Lynch was born in Chicago, January 31, 1889, son of Henry and Ellen (Sweeney) Lynch. His mother is still living, at the age of eighty-three.
From 1913 to 1926 Mr. Lynch was with the Thompson-Starrett Company of Chicago, and became a vice president of that organization, one of the largest organizations of building contractors in the United States. While with the Thompson-Starrett Company he had an active part in their building operations, which during the time included the construction of the Field Museum in Grant Park, the Continental and Commercial Bank Building, the Conway Building, the Strauss Building, the new Palmer House and other notable structures in the Middle West, and also St. Mary's of the Lake Seminary at Mundelein. In 1926 Mr. Lynch established his own organization and his firm specializes in institutional work. Among other structures built by the W. J. Lynch Company in recent years may be named the Depaul Hospital at St. Louis, Missouri, St. George's High School at Evanston, St. Catherine of Sienna Church, Oak Park, The Little Company of Mary Hospital and Mundelein College, Chicago.
Mr. Lynch is a director of the Builders Association of Chicago, member of the Chicago Architects Club, the Chicago Athletic Association, the Western Society of Engineers, Beverly Country Club, South Shore Country Club, Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Church. Mr. Lynch married Miss Anne E. Dalton, who was born in Chicago, daughter of Edward Dalton. They have two children, William J., Jr., and Elizabeth Anne. ("ILLINOIS, The Heart of the Nation" by Hon. Edward F. Dunne, Volume IV, 1933, Transcribed by Kim Torp)