Lincoln, Benjamin – Lindsay, John Thomas
Lincoln, Benjamin
soldier, was born Jan. 24, 1733, in Hingham, Mass. He was a farmer until 1773, holding the offices of magistrate, representative in the provincial legislature; and colonel of militia. In 1776 he joined the continental army, and rose rapidly to the position of major-general. He died May 9, 1810, in Hingham, Mass. He was a gallant soldier; a great jurist and statesman, and one of the foremost men of his time.
Lincoln, Daniel Francis
physician, author, was born Jan. 4, 1841, in Boston, Mass. He is a physician of Boston; and the author of School Hygiene; Electro-Therapeutics; and School and Industrial Hygiene.
Lincoln, Enoch
congressman, governor, poet, was born Dec. 28, 1788, in Worcester, Mass. He was a member of the United States house of representatives from Massachusetts from 1818 to 1820, and from 1821 to 1826 from the new state of Maine. He was then elected governor of Maine, and re-elected in 1828. He published, while at Fryeburg, a poem, entitled The Village; and was also the author of some historical recollections of Maine. He died Oct. 8, 1829, in Augusta, Maine.
Lincoln, Frederic Walker
banker, legislator, was born in 1817 in Massachusetts. He was president of the Franklin Savings bank of Boston, Mass.; and served several terms in the state legislature. He died Sept. 19, 1898, in Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Heman
clergyman, educator, author, was born April 14, 1821, in Boston, Mass. He is a baptist divine, professor of church history at Newton Theological seminary since 1868; and the author of Outline Lectures in Church History; and Outline Lectures in History of Doctrine.
Lincoln, Isaac
physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 26, 1780, in Cohasset, Mass. After graduating at Cambridge in 1800 he taught taught school; and in 1804 began the practice of medicine. In 1820 he took up his residence in Brunswick, where he has attained prominenceas one of the foremost physicians of New England. In 1848 he was a nominee for congress; from 1805 he was a member of the board of overseers of Bowdoin college; and filled numerous positions of trust and honor.
Lincoln, Jane Elizabeth
author, poet, was born in 1829, in Colebrook, Conn. She is a frequent contributor, under the pen-name Kate Campbell, to the magazines published by Godey, Sartain, Peterson, and Neal, and to the annuals.
Subsequently she wrote for baptist journals.
LINCOLN, MRS. JEANIE [GOULD], author, poet, was born in 1846, in New York. She is a writer of Washington city; and the author of A Chaplet of Leaves, a book of verse; Marjorie's Quest, a story for young people; Her Washington Winter; and A Genuine Girl.
Lincoln, John H
lawyer, jurist, was born July 19, 1859, in Plano, Ill. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Nebraska at Stockville; has held the office of city prosecutor for several terms; has been United States prosecuting attorney; and twice served with distinction as judge of his district. In 1892 he was a delegate to the Omaha national convention.
Lincoln, John Larkin
educator, author, was born Feb. 23, 1817, in Boston, Mass. He was a professor of Latin in Brown university, well known as a classical scholar, and editor of editions of Livy, Horace, and Cicero. He died Oct. 17, 1891, in Providence, R. I.
Lincoln, Joseph C
soldier, physician, surgeon, was born May 22, 1844, in Albany, N. Y. He received his education at the Lawrence university of Appleton, Wis.; and in 1871 graduated from the Rush Medical college of Chicago, Ill. During the civil war he was a member of the first regiment of Minnesota volunteers. He has a large practice in Bowling Green, Ohio; is a member of the board of examining surgeons for pensions; and in 1892 was the republican candidate for congress from the Toledo district.
Lincoln, Levi
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 15, 1749, in Hingham, Mass. He was a judge of probate; a state senator in 1797; and county prosecutor in 1775. He was a representative in congress from 1799 to 1801. In 1801 he was appointed attorney-general of the United States, and acted as secretary of state until Mr. Madison reached Washington. He was a state counselor in 1806, 1810, and 1811; and in 1807 was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, acting as governor in 1809. He died April 14, 1820, in Worcester, Mass.
Lincoln, Levi
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Oct. 25, 1782, in Massachusetts. He was a state senator in 1812; a state representative from 1814 to 1823, and speaker in 1.822. He was lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1823; judge of the supreme court of the state in 1824; a presidential elector in 1825 and 1864; and governor of Massachusetts from 1825 to 1834. From 1834 to 1841 he was a representative in congress. He was a state senator in 1844 and 1845, and president of the senate. He died May 29, 1868, in Worcester, Mass.
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.
Lincoln, Mary Todd
was born Dec.. 12, 1818, in Lexington, Ky. She was the wife of Abraham Lincoln. She died July 16, 1882, in Springfield, Ill.
Lincoln, Robert T
soldier, lawyer was born Aug. 1, 1843, in Springfield, Ill.
He entered the union army as captain and assistant adjutant-general; and resigned in June, 1865. He was a presidential elector in 1880; and in 1881 was appointed secretary of war in the cabinet of President Garfield, and continued in that position in the cabinet of President Arthur. In 1889 he was appointed minister to Great Britain.
Lincoln, William
antiquarian, author, was born in 1801, in Worcester. He was one of the publishers of the Worcester Magazine in 1826-27. He delivered an oration at Worcester in 1816, and was the author of a History of Worcester. He died Oct. 5, 1843, in Worcester.
Lincoln, William S
manufacturer,. congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1813, in Newark Valley, N. Y. In 1866 he was. elected a representative from New York to the fortieth congress.
Lind, John
lawyer, congressman, was. born March 25, 1854, in Sweden. He was a member of congress from the second district of Minnesota in the fiftieth, fiftyfirst, and fifty-second congresses, and declined to be a candidate for renomination.. He had charge and secured the passage of the automatic car coupler bill through the house.
Linderman, Henry Richard
financier, author, was born Dec. 26, 1825, in Lehman, Pa. He was the director of the United States mint at Philadelphia since 1873, whose annual report for 1877 is a powerful argument for the gold standard. He was the author of Money and Le-- gal Tender in the United States. He died Jan. 27, 1879, in Washington, D. C.
Lindesay, Mrs. Maria B
poet, was, born Jan. 1, 1862, in England. She is the author of a number of poems.
Lindley, James J
lawyer, congress-- man, was born Jan. 1, 1822, in Mansfield, Ohio. He moved to Monticello, Mo.; and in 1848 he was elected circuit attorney for eight counties, and re-elected in 1852.
He was a representative from Missouri in the thirty-third congress; and was re-- elected to the thirty-fourth congress.
Lindsay, John Summerfield
clergyman, author, was born March 19, 1842, in Williamsburg, Va. From 1883 till 1885 he was chaplain of the United States house of representatives. He is the author of A Sketch of Hamilton Parish, Va.; and A Sketch of St. John's Church, Georgetown.
Lindsay, John Thomas
lawyer, author, poet, was born Jan. 8, 1818, in Mc- Connellsburg, Pa. For forty-five years the subject of this sketch practiced law in Peoria, Ill. During that. time, in connection with R. G. Ingersoll,. he built the west end of Peoria and Terre Haute railroad. He. was appointed on the McClelland and Seymour tickets as presidential elector, and in the contest between Douglas and a Lincoln was on the representative ticket. for Douglas. He went to Nebraska with his three sons, and started a cattle and sheep ranch in Knox county, naming the place Peoria. He is the author of three novels; and numerous poems.