Linn, Joseph Adolph, 1820-1864.

Joseph Adolph Linn (1820-1864), of Gold Hill, Rowan County, N.C., was a Lutheran minister and business man. Linn was educated at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Lexington, S.C., and at the Wittemburg Seminary at Gettsyburg, Pa. He served as a minister of several churches in Rowan County. He also operated a farm and grist mill and had business interests in a tannery and leather-working company and a gold-mining company. Linn was married twice. His first wife was Rebecca Shuler of Lexington, S.C., who died in 1848, leaving a son, John T. S. Linn. His second wife was Margaret Ann Bernhardt (also spelled Barnhardt) of Cabarrus County, N.C., with whom he also had a son, Joseph Adolph Linn Junior.

From the guide to the Joseph Adolph Linn Papers, 1839-1881, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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