Caledonia LINCOLN, Benjamin Franklin Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 246-247 Benjamin Franklin LINCOLN, of Lyndon [Caledonia County, Vermont], was born 04 September 1831 in Wareham [Plymouth County], Massachusetts, son of Benjamin and Sophia (MAKEPEACE) LINCOLN. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, and at twelve years of age went to New Bedford [Bristol County], Massachusetts, where he lived for six years and then moved to Winmington [Newcastle County], Delaware, and there learned the tinner's trade. At twenty years of age he visited California, spending one year in mining, and thence removed to Oregon, where he engaged in the hardware business, remaining four years, when he returned to New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1862 he came to Vermont and engaged in the hardware business at Lyndon. In April 1866 he commenced the lumber business in which he has been employed for twenty-five years, operating in Michigan and Vermont jointly. Republican; represented his town in the General Assembly in 1876, 1878, and 1888, and was elected to the state Senate in 1890 and 1892. Member of Crescent Lodge No. 66, Free & Accepted Masons. Is now president of the Lyndon National Bank, and also president of the Caledonia Publishing Company, of St. Johnsbury. On 28 November 1860 at Acushnet [Bristol County], Massachusetts he [Benjamin Franklin LINCOLN] was married to Annie A., daughter of John A. and Sophronia (SKINNER) LOMBARD. Five children are the issue of this union: Alice S. (Mrs. Homer C. WILSON), Mary S., Benjamin, John E., and Charlotte C. Submitted by Cathy Kubly