John H. Lynd
As proprietor of the flourishing and incidentally important enterprise conducted under the title of the Lynd Transfer and Storage Company, with headquarters at 140 South Fourth Street, the popular citizen whose name initiates this paragraph is recognized as one of the progressive and representative business men of the younger generation in his native City of Ironton, Lawrence County. Here he was born on the 6th of December, 1882, and he is a representative of a family whose name has been long and prominently identified with the civic and material affairs of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio.
Mr. Lynd is a son of Benjamin F. and Margaret (Brewster) Lynd, the former of whom was born at Burlington, Lawrence County, on the 7th of January, 1861. and the latter of whom was born in the City of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861, the subject of this review being the eldest of the three children and the other two being Carl and Herbert. The parents are prominent and honored residents of Ironton, where the father was engaged in the grocery business for thirty years and where he has lived practically retired since 1913. John H. Lynd attended the public schools of Ironton until he had attained to the age of eighteen years, and thus his discipline included the curriculum of the high school. After leaving school he was clerk in the grocery establishment of his father until he gained the dignity implied in arrival at his legal majority, when he entered the employ of the Ironton Portland Cement Company, for which he was mine superintendent for seven years.
In 1911 Mr. Lynd purchased the establishment and business of the Wieteki Transfer Company and he has since conducted a general transfer and storage business of most successful order, effective service and his personal popularity having contributed materially to the expansion and specially substantial status of the enterprise, the incidental equipment and stock of horses being conservatively valued at $9,000. .Mr. Lynd is the owner also of his pleasant home, besides other residence property in his native city. He is affiliated with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was for three years a member of the commissary department of the Seventh Regiment of the Ohio National Guard, and both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
On the 16th of October. 1907. was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Lynd to Miss Alice Richards, daughter of William and Clara (Thompson) Richards, of Ironton. her father having been for fifteen years manager of one of the leading iron furnaces in Lawrence County and otherwise prominently identified with the iron industry in the Hanging Rock Region. Mr. and Mrs. Lynd have two children— Eloise E. and Richard Franklin.
From "A Standing History of the Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio" by Eugene B. Willard, Daniel W. Williams, George O. Newman and Charles B. Taylor. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, 1916