Lincoln family.

Dates:
Active 1667
Active 1937

Biographical notes:

Levi Lincoln (1749-1820), husband of Martha Waldo Lincoln (1761-1828), was a lawyer, a state and federal politician, U.S. Attorney General, 1801-1804, and a farmer in Worcester, Mass.

Abraham Lincoln (1762-1824), brother of the above Levi Lincoln, was a druggist in Worcester, a justice of the peace, and a local, county, and state politician.

Levi Lincoln (1782-1868), eldest son of Levi and Martha (Waldo) Lincoln, was a lawyer in Worcester, a state legislator, Governor of Massachusetts, 1825-1834, U.S. Congressman, 1834-1841, and an agriculturalist.

John Waldo Lincoln (1781-1852), a son of Levi and Martha (Waldo) Lincoln, was a Worcester merchant, a Massachusetts militia officer, an agriculturalist, and a local, county, and state politician.

Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829), a son of Levi and Martha (Waldo) Lincoln, was a lawyer in Fryeburg and Paris, Me., an assistant U.S. District Attorney, 1815-1818, U.S. Congressman, 1816-1826, and Governor of Maine, 1827-1829.

William Lincoln (1801-1843), a son of Levi and Martha (Waldo) Lincoln, was a lawyer in Worcester, an historian, librarian and corresponding secretary of the American Antiquarian Society, 1826-1841, a state politician, and an agriculturalist.

William Sever Lincoln (1811-1889), eldest son of Levi and Penelope Winslow (Sever) Lincoln, husband of Elizabeth Trumbull Lincoln (1816-1900), and father of William Lincoln (1839-1869), was a lawyer in Millbury, Mass., and Alton, Ill., a farmer in Worcester, and a Union officer during the Civil War.

Daniel Waldo Lincoln (1813-1880), a son of Levi and Penelope Winslow (Sever) Lincoln, was a lawyer in Worcester, a horticulturalist, a local militia officer, a local and state politician, Mayor of Worcester, 1863-1864, a banker, and an executive of the Boston & Albany Railroad Company.

Edward Winslow Lincoln (1820-1896), nee John Winslow Lincoln, a son of Levi and Penelope Winslow (Sever) Lincoln, was a lawyer in Worcester, Mass.

Waldo Lincoln (1849-1933), the son of Daniel Waldo Lincoln and the husband of Fanny Chandler Lincoln (1852-1939), was a businessman in Worcester, an historian, president of the American Antiquarian Society, 1907-1927, and a genealogist.

From the description of Papers, 1667-1937. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191282064

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  • Agriculture
  • Agriculture
  • Farmers
  • General stores
  • Indians of North America
  • Justices of the peace
  • Lawyers
  • Pharmacists
  • Politicians
  • Real property
  • Railroads
  • Sawmills

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  • Massachusetts--Millbury (as recorded)
  • Worcester (Mass.) (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Worcester (as recorded)
  • New England (as recorded)
  • Petersham (Mass.) (as recorded)
  • Northeast boundary of the United States (as recorded)
  • Maine--Paris (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Oakham (as recorded)
  • Maine--Penobscot County (as recorded)
  • Illinois--Alton (as recorded)
  • Maine--Fryeburg (as recorded)
  • Canada (as recorded)
  • New Brunswick (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Worcester County (as recorded)
  • Maine (as recorded)