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MAJOR JOSEPH
LINCOLN came to Marietta, April 7, 1788. He was
born in Massachusetts in 1760, and had served in the Revolutionary
army. While in garrison at Farmer's Castle, Belpre, he married
Fanny, daughter of Capt. John Leavens, from Killingly,
Connecticut. After the war he removed to Marietta, where he
established himself in business. "He at one time owned all the
land on Ohio street, between Post and Front, and several lots on
Front. In 1807 he erected, on the corner of Front and Ohio
streets, what was then the finest building in town. It was
originally a large, square brick house, with ornamental mantels and
stuccoed ceilings. The building was arranged both for a dwelling
and business house, but Major Lincoln died about the time it
was finished." He was always known as Major Lincoln, but
we have not the date of his commission. In 1797, he subscribed
twenty dollars toward building the Muskingum Academy. He soon
became one of the most successful merchants in Marietta. "He was
a most excellent man." Tradition says that his daughter,
Susan Lincoln, educated at the celebrated Moravian school at
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was one of the most attractive and
accomplished girls of her time.
 Source:
The founders of Ohio : brief sketches of the forty-eight pioneers -
Publ. Cincinnati by R. Clark & Co. - 1888 |
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SIMON LINSER, the president of the
Simon Linser Brewing Company, at Zanesville, was born in
Baden, Germany, in 1852, and came to the United States in 1873.
He located in New York city, where he worked in Stein's
brewery for two years and then removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he
was employed in Moerlein's brewery until 1880. In that
year he came to Zanesville, where he accepted the position of
foreman in the Groener & Horn brewery, acting in that
capacity for four years, when in 1884 he formed a partnership with
Henry Zinnsmeister, and bought the Washington brewery.
This they conducted until 1891, when Mr. Linser purchased his
partner's interest and carried on business alone until 1901, when
the Star, Riverside and Washington breweries were consolidated and a
stock company was formed under the name of the Simon Linser
Brewing Company, the officers being Simon Linser, Sr.,
president; David Smith, vice president; and Simon Linser,
jr., secretary and treasurer.
In 1875 Mr. Linser was married to Miss Regula
Kramer, who was born in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1852. They
have six children, four sons and two daughters, namely: Charles
F., who is foreman of the Star brewery: Simon, who is
secretary and treasurer of the Simon Linser Brewing Company;
Herman who is foreman of the Washington brewery; Otto,
Anna and Freda. Mrs. Linser is a member of St.
Nicholas church and he belongs to the Odd Fellows society and the
Knights of Pythias fraternity. In politics he is a democrat
and has represented the fourth ward in the city council for six
years, taking an active interest in all that pertains to the
material upbuilding and progress of Zanesville.
The hope that led him to leave his native land and seek
a home in America has been more than realized. He found the
opportunities he sought, which, by the way, are always open to the
ambitious, energetic man, and, making the best of these, he has
steadily worked his way upward. He possesses the perseverance,
resolution and reliability so characteristic of people of his
nation, and his name is now enrolled among the best citizens of
Muskingum county.
Source: Past and Present of the City of Zanesville, and
Muskingum Co., Ohio - Published Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing
Co. - 1905 - Page 294 |
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