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OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A
DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF
BRISTOL COUNTY
MASSACHUSETTS
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
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THE
FALL RIVER NEWS
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AND
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THE
TAUNTON GAZETTE
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WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF
HON. ALANSON BORDEN
OF NEW BEDFORD
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THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
1899
PART II
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Leontine Lincoln
LEONTINE LINCOLN, son of Jonathan
Thayer and Abby (Luscomb) Lincoln, was born in Fall River, December 26, 1846.
During his boyhood he attended the Fall River public schools and later a private school at Providence, R. I. Mr.
Lincoln began business at the age of nineteen, when he entered the counting room of Kilburn, Lincoln & Co.,
of which corporation his father was then president (later succeeded in the presidency by his oldest son, H. C.
Lincoln). The firm was then, and still is, a large manufacturer of cotton and silk machinery. Mr. Lincoln has been
in the direction of some of the leading manufacturing and banking interests of the city, including the Seaconnet,
Tecumseh, King Philip, Hargraves, Parker and Arkwright Mills, Barnard Manufacturing Company, Crystal Spring Bleaching
and Dyeing Company, Second National Bank, and a member of the board of investment of the Five Cents Savings Bank;
he is also president of the Seaconnet Mills Corporation, president of the Hargraves Mill and the Parker Mills,
and of the Second National Bank, and trustee of the Home for Aged People.
In 1872 Mr. Lincoln succeeded E. C. Kilburn as treasurer of the Kilburn, Lincoln & Company Corporation, and
still retains this connection, which now covers a period of twenty-six years. His active interest in the educational
institutions of Fall River has long been manifest, and he has served as a member of the School Committee nineteen
years and its chairman eleven years. He is also a member and secretary of the board of trustees of the B. M. C.
Durfee High School. He has been a member of the board of trustees of the, Public Library for twenty years, during
which time he has served as secretary and treasurer of the board. Mr. Lincoln has written and spoken on educational,
industrial and political subjects. He has been a member of the State Board of Lunacy and Charity since 1894 and
was elected chairman of the board in June, 1898. He is a member of the Old Colony Historical Society and the Ameican
Librarians’.Association; also a member of the New England Cotton Manufacturers’ Association; was a delegate to
the Republican National Convention in 1896 at St. Louis, which nominated William McKinley to the presidency.
In 1889 Brown University conferred upon him the honorary degree, A.M. He married, in May, 1868, Amelia S., daughter
of John Duncan, D. D., and Mary A. (Macowen) Duncan, and their children are Jonathan Thayer Lincoln and Leontine
Lincoln, jr.
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