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History of Crawford and Clark Counties, Illinois Biography from William Henry Perrin, ed., "History of Crawford and Clark Counties, Illinois," (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., Historical Publishers, 1883), p 373.
Robert R. Lincoln, farmer, Licking Township, Crawford County, Ill. , was born in Zanesville, Muskingum Co., Ohio. December 19, 1822. His father, Leonard Lincoln, was a machinist and nailer, who moved to Zanesville in an early day, where he worked in the first nail factory in Ohio . He was born in Massachusetts about 1800 and died at Zanesville in 1836 . He was married soon after his arrival in Muskingum County to Miss Nancy Dick, daughter of Esquire Dick, who was the first blacksmith of Falls Township. She was born in Pennsylvania about 1802. Seven sons were born to them, as follows: Robert R., John, Dudley, George, Abraham, Elijah , and one not named, who died in infancy. Of this family two only survive, the oldest and the youngest, namely Robert R. and Elijah. After the death of Mr. Lincoln, Mrs. Lincoln married William Baker, who was the first to keep a tavern in Falls Township. In 1852, she died. Our subject received a fair common school education in Ohio, where he afterward worked in a machine shop, and for two years ran a steamboat on the river. In 1842, he came to Crawford County, Ill., where for the first few years he worked at anything he could find to do, until he had accumulated enough with which to make a start in life. In 1848, he entered 160 acres of land on Sections 29 and 31, and subsequently bought 400 acres adjoining, in different sections. He was joined in marriage with Miss Mary Lamb, daughter of William Lamb, of Ohio, January 5, 1850. This union was blessed by the births of the following children: Charles B., Henry C., Emma J. , and Araminta and one that died infancy. William and Isabel (Lamberson ) Lamb, parents of Mrs. Lincoln, were natives of Virginia. Their children were Isaac, John, Samuel, Mary, Ann, Sophia, Alexander, Eliza, and Margaret. Mr. Lincoln is a great nephew of ex-Gov. Lincoln of Massachusetts and perhaps a distant relative to Abraham Lincoln. One tradition affirms that the Lincoln family originated at Hingham, Mass., and was derived from a common stock, with Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, of Revolutionary fame , and this is doubtless a branch of the same family.
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