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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

George M. LYND, merchant, Lockport; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 8, 1833; his father, 
Rev. S. W. LYND, was a distinguished Baptist minister and held leading positions in the 
Church in the West, being at one time President of the Western Baptist Theological Seminary, 
located in Covington, Ky. ; afterward removed to Georgetown, Ky., Dr. LYND still retaining 
the Presidency; he was Pastor of the Church in Cincinnati nineteen years; subsequently of the 
Church in St. Louis, and later in Chicago. In 1852, George M. became a student in Georgetown 
College and remained three years, not, however completing a full course; in 1856, he came 
West with his family to Illinois, and settled at Gooding's Grove, Will Co., and engaged in 
farming; this he pursued for two years, when he took the position of preceptor in the family 
of George BARNETT, of Lockport, and was thus engaged for two years; in 1860, be entered the 
employ of S. W. LULL, as clerk in his grocery store. In 1862, he enlisted in Co. C, 100th 
Regiment I. V. I., and remained in the service till the close of the war; he was mustered 
in as Orderly Sergeant, but by successive promotions arose to the highest position in his 
company, that of Captain; on his return home, he formed a co-partnership with S. W. LULL 
for the purchase and sale of groceries; this he continued until June, 1877, when the firm 
was dissolved, Mr. LULL taking the dry goods department, added in 1872, and Mr. LYND the 
grocery department. He was married May 4, 1874, to Mary BLOUNT, a native of Illinois; one 
child - Carrie. Republican; Baptist. During his term of service as a soldier, he 
participated in the important battles of Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and 
in all the engagements in Sherman's march to Atlanta; was at the battle of Nashville, Tenn., 
and many minor engagements; was present in every battle in which the regiment was engaged 
during the term of service and escaped being wounded.