Lincoln, Martha De
was born in 1838, in Herkimer county, N. Y.
Mrs.
Lincoln was educated at Whitestown seminary, New York, and early in life commenced literary work; and her poems and articles have generally appeared under the nom de plume of Bessie Beech. In 1882, with two other journalists, she organized the Woman's National Press association, which was the first chartered woman's press organization in the world. She was its first secretary, and served the organization eight years as president. Her most laborious work has been Central Figures in American Science; and her best work in prose and poetry is entitled Beech Leaves. In 1891 she was appointed delegate to the international peace congress in Rome; and again in 1892 to the peace congress in Switzerland; and the same year she was elected president of the American Society of Authors for Washington, D. C. She is the wife of Henry M. Lincoln, an eminent physician of Washington, D. C.
LINCOLN, MRS. MARY JOHNSON [BAILEY], author, was born in 1844, in Massachusetts. She is a Boston teacher of cookery, culinary editor of The American Kitchen Magazine; and the author of Boston Cook Book; Carving and Serving; Twenty Lessons in Cookery; and Kitchen Text-Book.