Wetmore, Lemuel Bingham, d. 1918.

Lemuel Bingham Wetmore of Lincolnton, N.C., son of Episcopal rector William Robards and Mary Bingham Wetmore, practiced law in Lincoln County, N.C., from the late 1880s until his death in 1918.

Lemuel Bingham Wetmore, circa 1867-1918, of Lincolnton, N.C., the oldest son of the Reverend William Robards Wetmore and Mary Bingham Wetmore, practiced law in Lincoln County, N.C., from the late 1880s until his death in 1918. Prior to that, in 1886, he and his younger brother Thomas were job printers and edited and published a short-lived local weekly newspaper, The Trumpet Apparently Wetmore was politically active with the local Democratic Party and at one point was an unsuccessful candidate for the post of solicitor. At the time of his death, Wetmore was in charge of the drafting of soldiers in Lincoln County for World War I.

Lemuel Wetmore's father, the Reverend William Robards Wetmore, was for thirty-three years rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Lincolnton, N.C.; his mother was a daughter of Lemuel Bingham, who was a pioneer in the development of North Carolina journalism. Lemuel was the oldest of three brothers; his brother the Reverend Thomas Cogdell Wetmore (1869-1906), with whom Lemuel Wetmore published The Trumpet, founded the Christ School in Arden, N.C., and his youngest brother, Silas McBee Wetmore, practiced law in Florence, S.C.