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DR. ELIJAH LYNCH, physician and surgeon, Greenville. Among the old settlers of Darke Co., we take pleasure in giving the gentlemen whose name heads this sketch a place in the front ranks of his profession; he was born in Warren Co., Ohio, Sept. 25, 1809, and was a son of Isaiah and Charity (Hasket) Lynch, both natives of South Carolina; they came to Ohio in 1805, and settled in Warren Co.; Mr. Lynch was of Welsh descent, and was born in South Carolina in 1769, and died in Warren Co., Ohio, in 1814; Mrs. Lynch was of English descent, born in South Carolina in 1799, and died March 11, 1848, in Butler Co., Ohio. The subject of our sketch obtained his general education in the Quaker schools, and, in 1834, commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Charters, of Waynesville, Ohio, with whom he remained two years, after which he studied two years with Dr. Thomas, of Sydney, and graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 1848; in 1845, he first located in Darke Co., and commenced the practice of medicine in Palestine, and, in 1849, located in Greenville, where he has since successfully followed his profession for a period of upward of thirty years, and is, consequently, one of the oldest continuous practitioners of the county. His marriage with Mary O’Brien was celebrated in 1832; she was born in Vermont May 15, 1811; they were the parents of eight children, of whom three are deceased; the living are Rebecca, now Mrs. Dr. Woods, of Van Wert; William, now practicing medicine in Shanesville, Ohio; Isaac, in the jewelry trade at Greenville, and Mary and Ida, living at home; of the deceased, Thomas died at 11 years of age; Sarah died at 19 years of age; Charles grew to manhood, and at his death left a widow and three children now living at Lima, Ohio; he was a resident of Indianapolis until his decease, and occupied the position of general ticket agent of the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Railroad.