Excerpt from the book Dam Right! Fred Lynch, Oscar Kendall & The Lynch Brothers Diamond Drilling Company by Joseph Fulton.....
Mariette “Mate” (pronounced Mate-ee) Kendall could not have been a more unlikely match for Dan Lynch. She was a Protestant with deep roots in America, none of them Irish. Her father, Jackson Kendall, was a Union veteran, having fought with the 30th Wisconsin during the Civil War. Her grandfather, Asa Kendall, fought in the War of 1812, and was the cousin of Amos Kendall, postmaster general of the United States and closest advisor to President Andrew Jackson. Asa named his own son in honor of his cousin’s colorful and controversial boss, who was serving his 2nd term as president at the time.
Mate’s great-grandfather, Joshua Kendall, was a soldier during the American Revolution. Joshua was a direct descendant of Francis Miles Kendall, who emigrated from England in the 1630s and was a founder of Woburn, Massachusetts.
As if Mate Kendall’s paternal lineage wasn’t intimidating enough for the son of an Irish immigrant, her mother’s pedigree was even more daunting. Harriet Chipman Kendall was the grand-niece of U.S. Senator Nathaniel Chipman and U.S. Representative Daniel Chipman, both from Vermont. She was a direct descendant of John Chipman, who married Hope Howland, the daughter of Mayflower pilgrim John Howland. Howland signed the Mayflower Compact after surviving a terrifying experience when he was tossed overboard by a violent storm during the Mayflower’s epic crossing of the Atlantic. Mayflower pilgrim and historian William Bradford referred to Howland as, “A lusty young man,” and though he was referring to his strength in holding on to a topsail halyard to prevent his drowning, Howland did father ten children with fellow pilgrim Elizabeth Tilley and his descendants in America number in the tens of thousands at this writing.
Mate also had a distant cousin in Hyde Park, New York that her husband and his brothers would later admire and in a sense, work for. His name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Jackson and Harriet Kendall lived in Hanover, Wisconsin where they raised three daughters; Philena, Mate and Eva, and one son, Albert. They had cousins in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, children of their father’s older sister, Adelina Kendall Durkee. Perhaps it was during a visit with these cousins that Mate encountered Dan Lynch. Whatever the circumstances Dan was confident enough to propose to the outgoing Mate and despite the objections of her family, the two were married on October 2, 1889, in Mate’s hometown of Hanover. Two weeks later, on October 17, 1889, the couple renewed their vows, as required by Dan’s Irish Catholic faith, at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Republic, Michigan.
Mariette “Mate” (pronounced Mate-ee) Kendall could not have been a more unlikely match for Dan Lynch. She was a Protestant with deep roots in America, none of them Irish. Her father, Jackson Kendall, was a Union veteran, having fought with the 30th Wisconsin during the Civil War. Her grandfather, Asa Kendall, fought in the War of 1812, and was the cousin of Amos Kendall, postmaster general of the United States and closest advisor to President Andrew Jackson. Asa named his own son in honor of his cousin’s colorful and controversial boss, who was serving his 2nd term as president at the time.
Mate’s great-grandfather, Joshua Kendall, was a soldier during the American Revolution. Joshua was a direct descendant of Francis Miles Kendall, who emigrated from England in the 1630s and was a founder of Woburn, Massachusetts.
As if Mate Kendall’s paternal lineage wasn’t intimidating enough for the son of an Irish immigrant, her mother’s pedigree was even more daunting. Harriet Chipman Kendall was the grand-niece of U.S. Senator Nathaniel Chipman and U.S. Representative Daniel Chipman, both from Vermont. She was a direct descendant of John Chipman, who married Hope Howland, the daughter of Mayflower pilgrim John Howland. Howland signed the Mayflower Compact after surviving a terrifying experience when he was tossed overboard by a violent storm during the Mayflower’s epic crossing of the Atlantic. Mayflower pilgrim and historian William Bradford referred to Howland as, “A lusty young man,” and though he was referring to his strength in holding on to a topsail halyard to prevent his drowning, Howland did father ten children with fellow pilgrim Elizabeth Tilley and his descendants in America number in the tens of thousands at this writing.
Mate also had a distant cousin in Hyde Park, New York that her husband and his brothers would later admire and in a sense, work for. His name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Jackson and Harriet Kendall lived in Hanover, Wisconsin where they raised three daughters; Philena, Mate and Eva, and one son, Albert. They had cousins in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, children of their father’s older sister, Adelina Kendall Durkee. Perhaps it was during a visit with these cousins that Mate encountered Dan Lynch. Whatever the circumstances Dan was confident enough to propose to the outgoing Mate and despite the objections of her family, the two were married on October 2, 1889, in Mate’s hometown of Hanover. Two weeks later, on October 17, 1889, the couple renewed their vows, as required by Dan’s Irish Catholic faith, at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Republic, Michigan.
Excerpt from the book Dam Right! Fred Lynch, Oscar Kendall & The Lynch Brothers Diamond Drilling Company by Joseph Fulton.....
Mariette “Mate” (pronounced Mate-ee) Kendall could not have been a more unlikely match for Dan Lynch. She was a Protestant with deep roots in America, none of them Irish. Her father, Jackson Kendall, was a Union veteran, having fought with the 30th Wisconsin during the Civil War. Her grandfather, Asa Kendall, fought in the War of 1812, and was the cousin of Amos Kendall, postmaster general of the United States and closest advisor to President Andrew Jackson. Asa named his own son in honor of his cousin’s colorful and controversial boss, who was serving his 2nd term as president at the time.
Mate’s great-grandfather, Joshua Kendall, was a soldier during the American Revolution. Joshua was a direct descendant of Francis Miles Kendall, who emigrated from England in the 1630s and was a founder of Woburn, Massachusetts.
As if Mate Kendall’s paternal lineage wasn’t intimidating enough for the son of an Irish immigrant, her mother’s pedigree was even more daunting. Harriet Chipman Kendall was the grand-niece of U.S. Senator Nathaniel Chipman and U.S. Representative Daniel Chipman, both from Vermont. She was a direct descendant of John Chipman, who married Hope Howland, the daughter of Mayflower pilgrim John Howland. Howland signed the Mayflower Compact after surviving a terrifying experience when he was tossed overboard by a violent storm during the Mayflower’s epic crossing of the Atlantic. Mayflower pilgrim and historian William Bradford referred to Howland as, “A lusty young man,” and though he was referring to his strength in holding on to a topsail halyard to prevent his drowning, Howland did father ten children with fellow pilgrim Elizabeth Tilley and his descendants in America number in the tens of thousands at this writing.
Mate also had a distant cousin in Hyde Park, New York that her husband and his brothers would later admire and in a sense, work for. His name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Jackson and Harriet Kendall lived in Hanover, Wisconsin where they raised three daughters; Philena, Mate and Eva, and one son, Albert. They had cousins in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, children of their father’s older sister, Adelina Kendall Durkee. Perhaps it was during a visit with these cousins that Mate encountered Dan Lynch. Whatever the circumstances Dan was confident enough to propose to the outgoing Mate and despite the objections of her family, the two were married on October 2, 1889, in Mate’s hometown of Hanover. Two weeks later, on October 17, 1889, the couple renewed their vows, as required by Dan’s Irish Catholic faith, at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Republic, Michigan.
Mariette “Mate” (pronounced Mate-ee) Kendall could not have been a more unlikely match for Dan Lynch. She was a Protestant with deep roots in America, none of them Irish. Her father, Jackson Kendall, was a Union veteran, having fought with the 30th Wisconsin during the Civil War. Her grandfather, Asa Kendall, fought in the War of 1812, and was the cousin of Amos Kendall, postmaster general of the United States and closest advisor to President Andrew Jackson. Asa named his own son in honor of his cousin’s colorful and controversial boss, who was serving his 2nd term as president at the time.
Mate’s great-grandfather, Joshua Kendall, was a soldier during the American Revolution. Joshua was a direct descendant of Francis Miles Kendall, who emigrated from England in the 1630s and was a founder of Woburn, Massachusetts.
As if Mate Kendall’s paternal lineage wasn’t intimidating enough for the son of an Irish immigrant, her mother’s pedigree was even more daunting. Harriet Chipman Kendall was the grand-niece of U.S. Senator Nathaniel Chipman and U.S. Representative Daniel Chipman, both from Vermont. She was a direct descendant of John Chipman, who married Hope Howland, the daughter of Mayflower pilgrim John Howland. Howland signed the Mayflower Compact after surviving a terrifying experience when he was tossed overboard by a violent storm during the Mayflower’s epic crossing of the Atlantic. Mayflower pilgrim and historian William Bradford referred to Howland as, “A lusty young man,” and though he was referring to his strength in holding on to a topsail halyard to prevent his drowning, Howland did father ten children with fellow pilgrim Elizabeth Tilley and his descendants in America number in the tens of thousands at this writing.
Mate also had a distant cousin in Hyde Park, New York that her husband and his brothers would later admire and in a sense, work for. His name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Jackson and Harriet Kendall lived in Hanover, Wisconsin where they raised three daughters; Philena, Mate and Eva, and one son, Albert. They had cousins in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, children of their father’s older sister, Adelina Kendall Durkee. Perhaps it was during a visit with these cousins that Mate encountered Dan Lynch. Whatever the circumstances Dan was confident enough to propose to the outgoing Mate and despite the objections of her family, the two were married on October 2, 1889, in Mate’s hometown of Hanover. Two weeks later, on October 17, 1889, the couple renewed their vows, as required by Dan’s Irish Catholic faith, at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Republic, Michigan.
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