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Edmund C. Lynch. Edmund Calvert Lynch (May 19, 1885 – May 12, 1938) and his friend, Charles E. Merrill, formed Merrill Lynch on October 15, 1915. Early years. Of Irish descent, Edmund Lynch was born on May 19, 1885, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Richard H. Lynch and Jennie Vernon Smith Lynch.
Merrill, Lynch & Company prospered by specializing in underwriting the securities of chain stores. Having helped organize Safeway Stores in 1926, Merrill sold his firm’s retail brokerage operations to E.A. Pierce & Company in 1930 and concentrated on investment banking until 1940,….
Author(s): Edmund C. Lynch Source: The Business History Review, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Summer, 1968), pp. 149-170 Published by: The President and Fellows of Harvard College
Founding and early history. The company was founded on January 6, 1914, when Charles E. Merrill opened Charles E. Merrill & Co. for business at 7 Wall Street in New York City. A few months later, Merrill's friend, Edmund C. Lynch, joined him, and in 1915 the name was officially changed to Merrill, Lynch & Co.
General Lynch was named chief of staff of the 11th Air Force in Alaska in October 1945, and two months later took over the Alaskan Air Command then at Adak in the Aleutians. He was designated commanding general of the Aleutian Section of the Alaskan Department in October 1946.
Dec 24, 2022 · Edmund C. Lynch was an American investment banker and co-founder of Merrill Lynch. On October 15, 1914, Lynch and his close friend Charles E. Merrill started Merrill Lynch. Lynch was especially known for helping create, finance, and broker many large chain-stores in the United States, including S.S. Kresge Corporation (now Kmart), J. C. Penney ...
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Dec 7, 1998 · In founding Merrill Lynch–his partner and sidekick, Edmund C. (“Eddie”) Lynch, was a soda-fountain-equipment salesman–Merrill created an important and enduring institution.
