Solano-Yolo-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Lincoln, H. L. 1830 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

H. L. LINCOLN was born January 21, 1830, in Chenango County, New York, a scion
of an old New England farmer, long and prominently identified with the history
of Taunton, Massachusetts. His grandfather gave the public square or green that
now adorns Taunton. His father, M. Lincoln, was a Boston man, originally engaged
in the cotton business. In early day he emigrated to New York State, and thence,
while his son, H. L., was very young, moved further West to the then pioneer
State of Illinois. The time consumed on the trip was some six months, the
journey being made by flat-boat and ox teams. The family lived in Madison and
Macoupin counties, and here H. L. was raised as a farmer. In 1859 he came to
California, via Panama, and settled first in Solano County, then Capay Valley in
Yolo County, remaining there six years. Mr. Lincoln was the first to make
permanent improvements in that valley, the Central View School being built by
his efforts and on his grounds. Later on he teamed extensively in Nevada, going
afterward to San Jose, and twelve years ago came to a point a couple of miles
below Calistoga, where he bought a fine farm of 300 acres, and commenced its
improvement. In 1890 he sold it and has since removed to Vallejo, near which
city he owns property, as also in Oakland. Wherever he has been he has always
been a public-spirited citizen, prominent in his own line in each locality.

He was married in Illinois, to Miss Fennell, an old schoolmate and companion of
his. They have seven children, of whom only one, a daughter, Phoebe, is at home,
although his mother-in-law, Mrs. Youles, now an aged woman, also resides with
him. Of three sons, George F., the oldest, is engaged on the same farm; Edward
F. is in charge of a large farm in Berryessa Valley, having seven men under him;
and the youngest, Lewis, is in Siskiyou County, on his farm. Of the daughters,
the eldest, Anne, married R. C. Swan, and lives near Calistoga; the second, Ella
M., married Mr. Garwood, and lives at Elk Grove, Sacramento County; the third,
Carrie, married C. C. Jewell, now the ticket agent at Winters on the Southern
Pacific Railroad; while the fourth, Phoebe, is at home.

  Mr. Lincoln's brother, Dr. A. B. Lincoln, a dentist, was a well educated man,
formerly very prominent in the South. He became a clerk in Perry & Co.'s (of New
Orleans) extensive sawmills in Texas. In 1849 he carried passengers to
California, one of them being General Harvey, ferrying them across the Gila
River. In 1850 he was murdered for his money on the Gila River. His uncle,
Elijah Lincoln, was in the Black Hawk war, helping to drive the Indians off the
country. He represented his county in the Assembly.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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