Solano-Yolo-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Lincoln, H. L. 1830 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 21, 2007, 11:01 pm 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/solano/bios/lincoln773gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 3.9 Kb