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Edwin M. Lynch

Edwin M. Lynch was clerk of the Orange County Superior Court at Hillsborough. In 1964 the county commissioners, at the Hillsborough Historical Society's request, named him keeper of the county's 20-piece set of standard weights and measures, bought in England in 1758, by then an honorary post.

Source: DigitalNC: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 12, 1964, p. 1 (He'll Keep the Weights)

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  1. Banker Paul Collins builds a Queen Anne house on North Churton Street Banker Paul Collins builds the house at 312 North Churton Street about 1910 as a family home and a summer residence for his aunt from Edenton. It was later the longtime home of Edwin Lynch, clerk of superior court. People: Paul C. Collins, Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: Hillsborough Historic District Additional Documentation, National Register (OR0077ad, 2014), 312 North Churton Street, Collins-Lynch House
  2. E. M. Lynch serves as deputy clerk of the Orange County Superior Court A certificate of incorporation recorded in the Orange County clerk's office on January 28, 1939 bore the signature of E. M. Lynch as deputy clerk of the superior court, four years before he became clerk.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, February 10, 1939, p. 3 (legal notice)
  3. E. M. Lynch is re-elected president of the Hillsboro Library Association At its annual meeting the Hillsboro Library Association re-elected E. M. Lynch president, with Miss Sue Hayes treasurer and Mrs. Marion Roberts secretary. Sydney Green was re-elected chairman of the Orange County Public Library Board.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, May 29, 1942, p. 3 (Library Officers)
  4. Dwight Ray of Carrboro joins the Chapel Hill ration board Dwight Ray of Carrboro, the county draft board's registrar there and a Carrboro school board member, was appointed to the War Price and Ration Board in place of Winslow E. Williams of Carrboro, who had resigned. He was nominated by Civilian Defense coordinator Guy B. Phillips, Clerk of Court Edwin Lynch, county commissioners' chairman Collier Cobb, Jr., and board chairman M. W. Durham. People: Dwight Ray, Collier Cobb Jr., Edwin M. Lynch, Moody W. DurhamThe Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1943, p. 1
  5. Edwin M. Lynch becomes clerk of the Orange County Superior Court After the death of A. W. Kenion, Edwin M. Lynch took office as clerk of the superior court of Orange County; legal notices in the Weekly carried his signature as clerk from January 4, 1943. People: Alonzo W. Kenion, Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 8, 1943, p. 5
  6. Orange County votes Democratic in the 1944 general election With 13 of 16 precincts reporting, Orange gave Roosevelt nearly three votes to one over Dewey, and only the Caldwell and Rock Springs precincts went Republican for president. W. Dennis Madry beat Alan T. Garrison for the state Senate, J. W. Umstead Jr. kept his House seat, clerk Edwin M. Lynch was reelected, and commissioners Collier Cobb Jr., Ben F. Wilson and H. G. Laws won new terms. People: Collier Cobb Jr., Edwin M. Lynch, John W. Umstead Jr., Ben F. Wilson, Hubert G. LawsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 9, 1944, p. 1
  7. Walter S. Crawford runs as the Republican candidate for clerk of superior court In the 1944 general election W. S. Crawford Sr. of Chapel Hill, secretary of the county Republican organization, was the party's nominee for clerk of superior court against the Democratic incumbent, Edwin M. Lynch. People: Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 2, 1944, p. 1
  8. E. M. Lynch succeeds A. H. Graham as Orange County Democratic chairman The county Democratic convention at the courthouse elected Clerk of Court E. M. Lynch chairman of the executive committee, ending A. H. Graham's 26 years in the post, with Mrs. C. W. Stanford vice-chairman and G. W. Ray secretary. Speakers thanked Graham, and the convention endorsed Carl Durham's reelection to Congress. People: Edwin M. Lynch, Gilbert W. RaySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 2, 1946, p. 1
  9. Orange County Democrats sweep the 1946 general election In a vote of about 2,500, Democrats won every county office: Sheriff S. T. Latta beat Luther Parker 1,892 to 845, John W. Umstead beat J. R. Evans for the House 1,881 to 697, and Collier Cobb Jr., Ben F. Wilson and H. G. Laws were elected commissioners. Coroner H. J. Walker led the ticket with 2,018 votes and James Webb of Hillsboro was elected state senator. People: Houston J. Walker, Collier Cobb Jr., Carl T. Durham, Edwin M. Lynch, Ben F. Wilson, Samuel T. Latta Jr., Hubert G. LawsSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 7, 1946, p. 1
  10. Hillsborough Presbyterian Church begins its educational building After gifts starting in 1943 and a December 1947 drive that reached half the cost, the church started work on its educational wing in May 1948 and finished it that November. People: Edwin M. Lynch, Irving E. BirdseyeSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 136
  11. Two Black men serve on an Orange County Superior Court civil jury When Judge Chester Morris opened a one-week civil term of Orange County Superior Court on May 10, 1948, two Black men, Dewey Sanford of Bingham Township and Hurley Green of Cheeks Crossing, were serving on the jury. Clerk of Court E. M. Lynch said it was not the first time Black citizens had served on civil juries in the county. People: Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 13, 1948, p. 1
  12. R. O. Forrest is appointed to the county board after H. G. Laws becomes town policeman Hubert G. Laws, in his fifth term as a county commissioner, resigned after the Hillsboro town board named him town policeman on April 3, since the constitution barred holding both offices. Clerk of Superior Court Edwin M. Lynch appointed Robert O. Forrest, the county Democratic chairman, to fill out the term; Laws sat for the last time on April 9. People: Edwin M. Lynch, Hubert G. Laws, Robert O. ForrestSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 12, 1951, p. 1
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  1. Chapel Hill opens its second century with Mayor Lanier's seventeen-point program At the May 14 meeting marking a hundred years since the town's charter, Clerk of Court Edwin M. Lynch swore in Mayor Edwin S. Lanier and aldermen P. L. Burch, G. Obie Davis and Oliver K. Cornwell. Lanier then laid out seventeen goals, among them sidewalk paving, a tax map, a new white cemetery, a printed code of ordinances, Social Security for town workers, zoning along the Durham highway and more playgrounds. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Edwin M. Lynch, Peter L. BurchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 17, 1951, p. 1
  2. County commissioners name a committee to plan Orange County's 200th anniversary On August 4, 1952, the commissioners named a nine-member countywide committee under L. J. Phipps of Chapel Hill to plan an observance of the county's 200th anniversary, to be held with the laying of the cornerstone of the new courthouse that fall. Its members included historian Hugh Lefler of Chapel Hill, Shepperd Strudwick and E. M. Lynch of Hillsboro, Clem Cheek of the Orange Grove-White Cross section, and four women from the Schley-St. Mary's, Cedar Grove, Efland and Carrboro communities. People: Luther James Phipps, Shepperd Strudwick (1868-1961), Edwin M. Lynch, Hugh Talmage LeflerSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 7, 1952, p. 1
  3. Superior Court hears its last case in the 1845 Orange County courthouse The final case of the civil term before Judge Clifton L. Moore was the last Superior Court case tried in the old courthouse, which the paper said was built for $8,000 in 1845; the next term was to open in the new $250,000 courthouse across the square. Court officers and the twelve jurors paused for a photograph to mark the moment. People: Edwin M. Lynch, Samuel T. Latta Jr.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 9, 1954, p. 1
  4. County officials move from the old courthouse into the new one County officials began moving from the old Orange County courthouse to the new building on Margaret Lane, the clerk of court and register of deeds first, and finished on Tuesday, September 28. The new building gave the home demonstration clubs a kitchen and homemaking laboratory and the county's microfilming machine an office of its own. People: Edwin M. Lynch, Robert O. ForrestThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), September 30, 1954, p. 1
  5. Betty June Hayes takes office as Orange County's register of deeds Betty June Hayes, a young assistant who won the post over Republican J. Thayer Lloyd, was sworn in by Clerk of Court E. M. Lynch, succeeding veteran register J. E. Laws, who did not run. The News called her the first woman register of deeds of the county and the first woman candidate for a major county office. People: Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 9, 1954, p. 1
  6. Claude Pope and Donald Stanford join the county commissioners Donald M. Stanford of Chapel Hill, who had beaten Simpson L. Efland in the spring primary, and Cedar Grove tobacco farmer Claude T. Pope were sworn in as county commissioners, Pope appointed by Clerk of Court Edwin M. Lynch to the two years left in the seat of Edwin S. Lanier, who had resigned by letter on November 29 after his election to the state Senate. The outgoing board thanked Efland and Lanier, and the new board put off electing a chairman because R. J. M. Hobbs was ill. People: Edwin Sidney Lanier, Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 6, 1956, p. 1
  7. Clerk E. M. Lynch appoints Donald McDade to the Board of County Commissioners Clerk of Superior Court E. M. Lynch appointed Cedar Grove farmer Donald McDade to fill out the unexpired term of the late Commissioner Claude T. Pope, also of Cedar Grove. McDade was sworn in at the board's next meeting and would have to run in the next spring's Democratic primary to keep the seat. People: Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 29, 1957, p. 1
  8. Land commissioners hear Duke Power's condemnation cases against Morgan Creek owners Eight court-appointed commissioners heard three days of testimony at the Hillsboro courthouse on Duke Power Company's suits to take easements for a 100,000-volt transmission line on steel towers across Morgan Creek properties south of Chapel Hill. The owners put their damages at about $571,000 and Duke at about $18,800; the commissioners awarded about $158,000, and when the clerk approved the awards both sides appealed to superior court. People: Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 1, 1962, p. 12
  9. Larue C. Farlow takes the oath as a justice of the peace Mrs. Larue C. Farlow of Chapel Hill, named a justice of the peace by the 1963 legislature in the omnibus bill introduced by Rep. L. J. Phipps, took her oath of office from Clerk of Court E. M. Lynch. The News called her Orange County's first woman justice of the peace. People: Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 8, 1963, p. 1
  10. Orange Democrats elect Roger Marshall of Eno to the county school board The county Democratic executive committee chose Roger Marshall of the Eno community to fill Charles M. Walker Jr.'s seat on the Board of Education until the next general election. Clerk of Court E. M. Lynch swore him in at the board's November meeting, to serve until April 1, 1965. People: Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), October 24, 1963, p. 1
  11. Commissioners name Clerk of Court Edwin M. Lynch keeper of the county's 1758 standard weights At the Hillsborough Historical Society's request, the county commissioners named Superior Court Clerk Edwin M. Lynch keeper of the weights, now an honorary post, for the 20-piece set of standard weights and measures bought for Orange County in England in 1758. The set, still county property, was on display in the Orange County Historical Museum in the old courthouse. People: Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 12, 1964, p. 1
  12. Hillsborough marks Independence Day at the grave of William Hooper The Historic Hillsborough Commission, with the Davie Poplar Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, held a morning ceremony on July 4, 1966 at the grave of William Hooper, signer of the Declaration of Independence, in the Old Town Cemetery, where Edwin M. Lynch, clerk of Orange County Superior Court, spoke. The Orange County Historical Museum showed an exhibit on Hooper from July 3 to 16. People: Edwin M. LynchSearch the index · Internet Archive: "Historical News", North Carolina Historical Review 43 (1966), p. 463

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Troy Weight Set

1824

Nested set of six troy weights, from half an ounce to sixteen ounces, each stamped on the rim with its value, one marked Imperial Standard Troy. Made after 1824 and probably before 1859, the set belonged to Thomas Edwin Lynch.

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