SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR VET BUTTE MONTANA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE DOCUMENT SIGNED

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JEREMIAH J. LYNCH
(1871 – 1961)
DISTRICT JUDGE
, 2nd JUDICIAL DISTRICT
1907-1932 and 1936– 1949, MONTANA’S
3
rd
LONGEST SERVING JUDGE, WITH HIS NAME APPEARING ON THE ELECTION BALLOT IN SILVER BOW COUNTY, MT, A TOTAL OF 18 TIMES,
ACTING MONTANA SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS,
APPOINTED ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL BY AG RAYMOND T. NAGLE 1932-1936,
DEPUTY COUNTY ATTORNEY OF SILVER BOW COUNTY, MONTANA 1901-1904,
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR CORPORAL, 7
th
ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, CHICAGO REGIMENT 1898,
CRIMINAL COURT JUDGE WHO EXECUTED THE DEATH PENALTY, BY HANGING IN THE GALLOWS, SEVEN TIMES FOR CONVICTED MURDERERS IN SILVER BOW COUNTY IN CONNECTION WITH KILLERS THAT WERE VICIOUS and COMMITTED CRIMES ABSENT EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES,
VERY PROMINENT ATTORNEY IN BUTTE, MONTANA, GRADUATING FIRST IN HIS LAW SCHOOL CLASS OF 1899 AT THE KENT COLLEGE OF LAW IN CHICAGO and BEING AWARDED THE DESIGNATION OF ‘
CUM LAUDE’
ON HIS BAR ADMISSION BY THE MONTANA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
&
MINER AT THE ANACONDA, GREEN MOUNTAIN and ST. LAWRENCE
MINES IN
MONTANA, and THE UTAH SILVER PITS, ONTARIO DRAIN TUNNEL, THE KEYSTONE MINE AT EUREKA, 1891-1897
Criminal court did a rushing business in the days between 1919 and 1925, due to gangland activity, drug addiction, and capitol crimes.
Judge Lynch would preside at two jury terms each year and lasting 2½-3 months.
In one session he tried nine men for murder, one right after the other!
Dope rackets were thriving then, too, and Judge Lynch once remarked that 20 or 30 addicts would be herded into his courtroom each Saturday for sentencing.
He said, “
After a while the odor would become very high.
”
Source:
“
The Montana Standard
” Butte June 20, 1948.
Judge Jeremiah Lynch, born in County Cork, Ireland, “
was unquestionably the dominant force in the Butte Irish community
” until his death in 1961, according to David Emmons in “
The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925
.”
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Here’s a Document Signed by Lynch as District Court Judge, 2pp., dated at Silver Bow, Montana, March 4
th
, 1929 – A District Court Inheritance Tax Order Document in the Matter of the Estate of Cyrus Retallack.
Note
: Included with the document are various misc. financial instruments (checks)/documents concerning the ‘Retallack’ estate.
The main document signed by Judge Lynch measures 8½” x 14” and is in Very Fine, Clean & Crisp condition!
A FINE PIECE OF MONTANA MILITARY, POLITICAL and JUDICIAL BRANCH HISTORY.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLE
J. J. LYNCH
Jeremiah J. Lynch
–
District Judge
, 2
nd
Judicial District, 1907
-
1932 and 1936
-
1948.
Judge Lynch was
b
orn
in
Ballycrovane
in Cork County, Ireland in 1871. He immigrated to the United States in 1884 at age
13.
H
e came
to Butte, Montana in September 1890 and worked as a miner.
In the fall of 1897
, Judge Lynch
went to Kent
College of L
aw in Chicago
and received his law degree in 1899.
In
1898
,
he enlisted in the
Illinois volunteer
infantry
and fought in the Amer
ic
an
-
Spanish war until the end of the war.
He married
Margaret Kelly on
February 11, 1904.
He served as assistant County Attorney
for a couple of years before
he
was elected
Silver
Bow
District Judge in November 1906.
In 1932,
Judge Lynch
was appointed to
A
ssistant Attorney General by
Raymond T. Nagle. He was re
-
elected to the 2
nd
Judicial District in 1937
and
retired in 1949.
Judge Lynch
died in 1961 at age 90.
JUDGE JEREMIAH LYNCH INTEGRAL PART OF BUTTE’S TAPESTRY
Oct 11, 2014
Rags to riches stories are in abundance. The immigrants that came to the United States did so for a better life for themselves and for their loved ones. Some fared better than others. One such immigrant was Jeremiah J. Lynch, a native of County Cork, who became one of the most influential judges in Mining City history.
Lynch worked in the Butte mines, but his goal was to study law. By the time he was 26, he had saved enough money to attend Kent College of Law in Chicago. He never looked back.
Throughout his long career, the judge was admired for his vast knowledge of the law and meticulous personality. He was also a proud Irishman and belonged to a number of Gaelic organizations, including the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Gaelic Athletic Association, Friends of Irish Freedom, and the Robert Emmet Literary Association.
By the time he retired in 1949, he had served for more than 40 years. He was 90 when he died in 1961. In his obituary he was described as “intensely loyal” to the United States and to his homeland, as well. “He was a familiar figure on Butte streets. The tall, straight-shouldered jurist with his booming Irish voice and his hard derby hat was identified and woven into the color of the Mining City.”
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Judge Jeremiah J. Lynch
Birth
9 Jan 1871, County Cork, Ireland
Death
28 Sep 1961 (aged 90)
, Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana, USA
Burial
Holy Cross Cemetery
,
Butte
,
Silver Bow County
,
Montana
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