Bio of LINCOLN, Levi T. (b.1860), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 532-535
LEVI T. LINCOLN
Levi T. Lincoln, who for a number of years was successfully engaged in business
as proprietor of a drug store in Minneapolis, lived retired for some time prior
to his demise, which occurred June 18, 1916, when he was in the fifty-sixth year
of his age. His birth occurred in Lowell, Massachusetts, on the 3d of November,
1860, his parents being Levi E. and Elizabeth Kingman (Waterhouse) Lincoln, who
were natives of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, respectively, whose ancestors
came over in the Mayflower.
Levi T. Lincoln supplemented his early education, obtained in the public schools
of his native city, by a course of study in Dexter Academy. It was in 1881, on
attaining his majority, that he made his way to Minneapolis, being here
associated with Anthony Kelley in the wholesale grocery business for five years.
On the expiration of that period he returned to his home in Massachusetts, but
when five more years had passed he came again to Minneapolis and here
established a drug store at the corner of Hennepin avenue and Lake place. This
he conducted for about fourteen years, carrying a complete line of drugs and
druggists' sundries and being accorded an extensive and gratifying patronage,
for he gained an enviable reputation as a most enterprising, reliable and
progressive merchant. At length, however, he disposed of his business interests
because of impaired health and spent the remainder of his life in honorable
retirement.
In 1886 Mr. Lincoln was united in marriage to Miss Susie Jellset, daughter of
Christian and Helena (Norom) Jellset, both of whom were natives of Norway,
whence they crossed the Atlantic to the United States in the spring of 1870. The
family home was established on a farm in Minnesota, where Mr. and Mrs. Jellset
continued to reside until called to their final rest. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln
became the parents of a eon and a daughter, namely: Robert T., of Minneapolis,
who served under Colonel Leach in Prance during the period of the World war; and
Cora, the wife of A. B. Smith of Minneapolis and the mother of two children,
Lincoln B. and Arthur R. Smith.
Politically Mr. Lincoln was a stanch republican and an active worker in the
local ranks of the party, but not an aspirant for office. Only on one occasion
did he court public preferment, being an aldermanic candidate in the year of his
demise. He was a valued member of the Garfield Republican Club and also of the
Calhoun Commercial Club, but had few other interests, as he was a man of
domestic taste who found his greatest happiness at his own fireside and his
keenest pleasure in providing for the comfort and welfare of his wife and
children. His death brought a sense of deep bereavement to many, for he had won
an extensive circle of warm friends during the long period of his residence here
and was widely recognized as one of the substantial and esteemed citizens of
Minneapolis. Mrs. Lincoln, who still survives her husband, makes her home at No.
3000 James avenue South.