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Lincoln #2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts

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This specific family group is a subset of the much larger Four Thousand Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset.

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  Levi Lincoln (1749-1820) — of Massachusetts. Born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Mass., May 15, 1749. Democrat. State court judge in Massachusetts, 1775; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1779; Delegate to Continental Congress from Massachusetts, 1781; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1796; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1797; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1800-01; U.S. Secretary of State, 1801; U.S. Attorney General, 1801-05; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1807-09; Governor of Massachusetts, 1808-09. Died in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., April 14, 1820 (age 70 years, 335 days). Interment at Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Enoch Lincoln (1720-1802) and Rachel (Fearing) Lincoln; married, October 28, 1781, to Martha Waldo; father of Levi Lincoln Jr. and Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829); great-granduncle of Frederick Robie; second cousin once removed of Alexander Lincoln; second cousin twice removed of Lansing Edgar Lincoln; second cousin thrice removed of Burr Buchanan Lincoln; second cousin four times removed of James Helme Lincoln; third cousin of Elbridge Gerry, Samuel Russell Gerry and Paul Fearing; third cousin twice removed of Abraham Lincoln and Elbridge Thomas Gerry; third cousin thrice removed of Robert Todd Lincoln and Peter Goelet Gerry.
  Political families: Lincoln #1 family of Kentucky; Lincoln #2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts; Lincoln #3 family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Levi Lincoln Jr. (1782-1868) — of Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Worcester, Worcester County, Mass. Born in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., October 25, 1782. Republican. Member of Massachusetts state senate, 1812-13, 1844-45; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1814-22; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1822-23; delegate to Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1823-24; justice of Massachusetts state supreme court, 1824-25; Governor of Massachusetts, 1825-34; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1834-41; U.S. Collector of Customs at Boston, Mass., Massachusetts, 1841-43; mayor of Worcester, Mass., 1848-49; Republican Presidential Elector for Massachusetts, 1864. Died in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., May 29, 1868 (age 85 years, 217 days). Interment at Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.
  Relatives: Son of Levi Lincoln and Martha (Waldo) Lincoln; brother of Enoch Lincoln; married to Penelope Winslow Sever; granduncle of Frederick Robie; third cousin of Alexander Lincoln; third cousin once removed of Elbridge Gerry, Samuel Russell Gerry, Paul Fearing and Lansing Edgar Lincoln; third cousin twice removed of Burr Buchanan Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of James Helme Lincoln; fourth cousin once removed of Abraham Lincoln and Elbridge Thomas Gerry.
  Political families: Lincoln #1 family of Kentucky; Lincoln #2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts; Lincoln #3 family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829) — of Paris, Oxford County, Maine. Born in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., December 28, 1788. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 7th District, 1818-21; U.S. Representative from Maine, 1821-26 (at-large 1821-25, 5th District 1825-26); Governor of Maine, 1827-29; died in office 1829. Died October 8, 1829 (age 40 years, 284 days). Entombed in mausoleum at State of Maine Burial Ground, Augusta, Maine.
  Relatives: Son of Levi Lincoln and Martha (Waldo) Lincoln; brother of Levi Lincoln Jr.; granduncle of Frederick Robie; third cousin of Alexander Lincoln; third cousin once removed of Elbridge Gerry, Samuel Russell Gerry, Paul Fearing and Lansing Edgar Lincoln; third cousin twice removed of Burr Buchanan Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of James Helme Lincoln; fourth cousin once removed of Abraham Lincoln and Elbridge Thomas Gerry.
  Political families: Lincoln #1 family of Kentucky; Lincoln #2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts; Lincoln #3 family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The town of Lincoln, Maine, is named for him.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Alexander Lincoln (1806-1879) — of Hingham, Plymouth County, Mass. Born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Mass., February 12, 1806. Democrat. Merchant; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts, 1860, 1864 (alternate). Died in Dansville, Livingston County, N.Y., October 26, 1879 (age 73 years, 256 days). Interment at Green Mount Cemetery, Dansville, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Jedediah Lincoln and Susanna (Beal) Lincoln; married 1827 to Deborah Revere; married 1864 to NinEva Aldrich; second cousin once removed of Levi Lincoln; second cousin twice removed of Benjamin Lincoln; third cousin of Levi Lincoln Jr. and Enoch Lincoln; third cousin once removed of Lansing Edgar Lincoln; third cousin twice removed of Burr Buchanan Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of James Helme Lincoln; fourth cousin once removed of Abraham Lincoln.
  Political families: Lincoln #1 family of Kentucky; Lincoln #2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts; Lincoln #3 family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) — also known as "Honest Abe"; "Old Abe"; "The Rail-Splitter"; "The Illinois Baboon"; "The Great Emancipator" — of New Salem, Menard County, Ill.; Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill. Born in a log cabin, Hardin County (part now in Larue County), Ky., February 12, 1809. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; postmaster; lawyer; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1834-41; U.S. Representative from Illinois 7th District, 1847-49; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1856; candidate for U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1858; President of the United States, 1861-65; died in office 1865; His election as president in 1860 precipitated the Civil War; determined to preserve the Union, he led the North to victory on the battlefield, freed the slaves in the conquered states, and in doing this, redefined American nationhood. English ancestry. Elected in 1900 to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Shot by the assassin John Wilkes Booth, during a play at Ford's Theater, in Washington, D.C., April 14, 1865; died at Peterson's Boarding House, across the street, the following day, April 15, 1865 (age 56 years, 62 days). Interment at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Ill.; memorial monument at National Mall, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 1868 at Judiciary Park, Washington, D.C.
  Relatives: Son of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln; married, November 4, 1842, to Mary Ann Todd (sister-in-law of Ninian Wirt Edwards; half-sister-in-law of Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson and Benjamin Hardin Helm; half-sister of Emilie Pariet Todd; aunt of Martha Dee Todd; grandniece of David Rittenhouse Porter); father of Robert Todd Lincoln; first cousin twice removed of Artie Clyde Sullinger; second cousin four times removed of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee and Arthur Lee; third cousin twice removed of Levi Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Richard Bland Lee, Edmund Jennings Lee and Zachary Taylor; fourth cousin once removed of Levi Lincoln Jr., Enoch Lincoln and Alexander Lincoln.
  Political families: Walker-Edwards family of North Carolina and Georgia; Lincoln #1 family of Kentucky; Lincoln #2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts; Porter-Lincoln family of Pennsylvania (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Cross-reference: Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr. — Isham N. Haynie — William M. Stone — John Pitcher — Stephen Miller — John T. Stuart — William H. Seward — Henry L. Burnett — Judah P. Benjamin — Robert Toombs — Richard Taylor Jacob — George W. Jones — James Adams — John G. Nicolay — Edward Everett — Stephen T. Logan — Francis P. Blair — John Hay — Henry Reed Rathbone — James A. Ekin — Frederick W. Seward — John H. Surratt — John H. Surratt, Jr. — James Shields — Emily T. Helm — John A. Campbell — John Merryman — Barnes Compton — John B. Castleman — Melvin D. Hildreth
  Lincoln counties in Ark., Colo., Idaho, Kan., La., Minn., Miss., Mont., Neb., Nev., N.M., Okla., Ore., Wash., W.Va., Wis. and Wyo. are named for him.
  The city of Lincoln, Nebraska, is named for him.  — Lincoln Memorial University, in Harrogate, Tennessee, is named for him.  — Lincoln University, in Jefferson City, Missouri, is named for him.  — Lincoln University, near Oxford, Pennsylvania, is named for him.
  Other politicians named for him: Abraham L. KeisterAbraham L. TuckerA. Lincoln PohalskiAbraham L. BrickAbraham L. KelloggAbraham L. DayAbraham Lincoln BernsteinAbraham L. TyreA. Lincoln ReileyA. L. HelmickAbraham L. SuttonA. Lincoln AckerAbraham L. OsgoodAbraham L. WitmerAbraham L. PhillipsA. Lincoln DrydenAbraham L. PaytonAbraham L. AllowayAbraham L. FieldAbraham L. DorisA. L. AuthA. Lincoln MooreA. Lincoln NiditchAbraham L. RubensteinAbraham L. Davis, Jr.Abraham L. FreedmanA. L. MarovitzLincoln GordonAbraham L. BannerAbraham Lincoln Tosti
  Coins and currency: His portrait has appeared on the U.S. penny (one cent coin) since 1909, and on the $5 bill since 1913. From the 1860s until 1927, his portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various denominations from $1 to $500.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  Books about Abraham Lincoln: David Herbert Donald, Lincoln — George Anastaplo, Abraham Lincoln : A Constitutional Biography — G. S. Boritt, ed., The Lincoln Enigma : The Changing Faces of an American Icon — Albert J. Beveridge, Abraham Lincoln 1809-1858 — Geoffrey Perret, Lincoln's War : The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief — David Herbert Donald, We Are Lincoln Men : Abraham Lincoln and His Friends — Edward Steers, Jr., Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln — Mario Cuomo, Why Lincoln Matters : Today More Than Ever — Michael W. Kauffman, American Brutus : John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Joshua Wolf Shenk, Lincoln's Melancholy : How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness — John Channing Briggs, Lincoln's Speeches Reconsidered — Ronald C. White, Jr., The Eloquent President : A Portrait of Lincoln Through His Words — Harold Holzer, Lincoln at Cooper Union : The Speech That Made Abraham Linco ln President — Michael Lind, What Lincoln Believed : The Values and Convictions of America's Greatest President — Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln — Michael Burlingame, ed., Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay — Thomas J. Craughwell, Stealing Lincoln's Body — Roy Morris, Jr., The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America — John Stauffer, Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln — Karen Judson, Abraham Lincoln (for young readers) — Maira Kalman, Looking at Lincoln (for young readers)
  Critical books about Abraham Lincoln: Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
  Fiction about Abraham Lincoln: Gore Vidal, Lincoln: A Novel
  Image source: Three Decades of Federal Legislation (1885)
  Frederick Robie (1822-1912) — of Maine. Born August 12, 1822. Governor of Maine, 1883-87. Died February 3, 1912 (age 89 years, 175 days). Interment somewhere in Gorham, Maine.
  Relatives: Grandnephew of Levi Lincoln Jr. and Enoch Lincoln; great-grandnephew of Levi Lincoln.
  Political family: Lincoln #2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also National Governors Association biography
  Lansing Edgar Lincoln (1842-1916) — also known as Lansing E. Lincoln — of Mason, Ingham County, Mich.; Harbor Beach, Huron County, Mich.; Omer, Arenac County, Mich. Born in Groton, Tompkins County, N.Y., November 23, 1842. Progressive. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; merchant; farmer; livestock dealer; member of Michigan state house of representatives from Huron County, 1885-88; defeated, 1914. Member, Grand Army of the Republic. While entering a country store, he slipped and fell, never regained consciousness, and died soon after, in Omer, Arenac County, Mich., November 4, 1916 (age 73 years, 347 days). Interment at Evergreen Cemetery, Omer, Mich.
  Relatives: Son of Milton Luvane Lincoln and Sarah (Carpenter) Lincoln; married, July 23, 1879, to Philura Buchanan; father of Burr Buchanan Lincoln; grandfather of James Helme Lincoln; second cousin twice removed of Levi Lincoln; third cousin once removed of Levi Lincoln Jr., Enoch Lincoln and Alexander Lincoln.
  Political families: Lincoln #2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts; Lincoln #3 family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926) — Born in Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill., August 1, 1843. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; Republican Presidential Elector for Illinois, 1880; U.S. Secretary of War, 1881-85; U.S. Minister to Great Britain, 1889-93; president (1897-1911) and chairman (1911-26) of the Pullman Palace Car Company, makers of railroad cars; part owner of Chicago Edison Company electric utility. Died, from a cerebral hemorrhage, in Manchester, Bennington County, Vt., July 25, 1926 (age 82 years, 358 days). Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  Relatives: Son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln; married, September 24, 1868, to Mary Eunice Harlan (daughter of James Harlan); nephew of Emily Todd Helm; great-grandnephew of David Rittenhouse Porter, George Bryan Porter and James Madison Porter; first cousin of Martha Dee Todd; second cousin once removed of Artie Clyde Sullinger and Arthur Rumney Ringwalt; second cousin five times removed of Richard Henry Lee, Francis Lightfoot Lee and Arthur Lee; third cousin thrice removed of Levi Lincoln.
  Political families: Lincoln #1 family of Kentucky; Lincoln #2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Robert T. Lincoln: Jason Emerson, Giant in the Shadows: The Life of Robert T. Lincoln
  Burr Buchanan Lincoln (1881-1937) — also known as Burr B. Lincoln — of Harbor Beach, Huron County, Mich. Born in Mason, Ingham County, Mich., December 16, 1881. Democrat. Farmer; candidate for Michigan state house of representatives from Huron County, 1926; Michigan agriculture commissioner, 1937. Collapsed and died, from a cerebral embolism, on a downtown street in Flint, Genesee County, Mich., May 27, 1937 (age 55 years, 162 days). Interment at Mt. Hope Cemetery, Lansing, Mich.
  Relatives: Son of Lansing Edgar Lincoln and Philura (Buchanan) Lincoln; married to Esther Elizabeth Hoare; father of James Helme Lincoln; second cousin thrice removed of Levi Lincoln; third cousin twice removed of Levi Lincoln Jr., Enoch Lincoln and Alexander Lincoln.
  Political families: Lincoln #2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts; Lincoln #3 family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  James Helme Lincoln (1916-2011) — also known as James H. Lincoln — of Detroit, Wayne County, Mich.; Harbor Beach, Huron County, Mich. Born in Harbor Beach, Huron County, Mich., August 26, 1916. Democrat. Lawyer; served in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II; candidate for mayor of Detroit, Mich., 1953; candidate for circuit judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1957, 1959; Wayne County Probate Judge, 1960-77; candidate for Michigan state board of education, 1980. Died in Harbor Beach, Huron County, Mich., July 23, 2011 (age 94 years, 331 days). Interment at Rock Falls Cemetery, Harbor Beach, Mich.
  Relatives: Son of Esther Elizabeth (Hoare) Lincoln and Burr Buchanan Lincoln; married, June 21, 1941, to Mary F. Kimmerling; grandson of Lansing Edgar Lincoln; second cousin four times removed of Levi Lincoln; third cousin thrice removed of Levi Lincoln Jr., Enoch Lincoln and Alexander Lincoln.
  Political families: Lincoln #2 family of Worcester, Massachusetts; Lincoln #3 family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  The James H. Lincoln Hall of Juvenile Justice, in Detroit, Michigan, is named for him.
  See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial

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