Solano County Biographies

H. L. LINCOLN

Transcribed by: Bonnie Phelan

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H. L .Lincoln was born January 21, 1830, in Chenango County, New York, a scion 
of an old New York 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 1959 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. In1890 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 school mate 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.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing Co., 
1891, Pages 624-625