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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
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NOTES:
* Source:
The founders of Ohio : brief sketches of the forty-eight pioneers who,
under command of General Rufus Putnam, landed at the mouth of the
Muskingum River on the seventh of April, 1788 and commenced the first
white settlement in the North-west Territory.
Cincinnati,: R. Clarke & Co., 1888
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