JAMES MINOR LINCOLN 
MEMBER 
At his home at Wareham, Mass., James Minor Lincoln of New York 
City died, after an illness of about two months, March 28, 1916, in his sixty- 
second year. 
Mr. Lincoln was born at Lewisburg, Pa., on September 1, 1854, and 
lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the Civil War. His family then removed 
to Boston, Mass., where he went to public school, and then to New York City, 
where he attended the College of the City of New York in the class of 1874, 
but left after three years to enter the employ of the Pacific Mail Steamship 
Company. 
He was purser of the S.S. Georgia of this line when it was wrecked 
in the Straits of Magellan. He returned to the United States via the West 
Coast of South America and Panama, where he inspected the railway and 
the canal route for the company. He then joined the Clyde Steamship Com- 
pany as purchasing agent and later became in addition chief draughtsman and 
assistant engineer of the line. In 1895 he was obliged to resign because of 
ill health, after twenty-one years of faithful service. 
Thereaiter he devoted himself to genealogy and historical research and 
collected a large amount of information concerning Indian and Colonial 
matters around New York City and in southeastern Massachusetts. He 
published two books on family genealogy and historical papers, “The Lincoln 
Family and Branches, of Wareham, Massachusetts” and “The Papers of 
Captain Rufus Lincoln of Wareham, Massachusetts,” and calculated a table 
for determining the pitch of screw propellers which he presented to the 
United States Navy Department, where it was used for a long time. He 
also helped to organize the Lincoln Memorial Committee composed of repre- 
sentative Americans and Englishmen who were erecting a memorial to 
Abraham Lincoln at Hingham, England, whence the family emigrated to 
America in 1637, when the European War began. 
Mr. Lincoln was genealogist of the Lincoln Historical and Genealogical 
Association of Taunton, Mass., and of the Ludwig Historical Society of 
Lewisburg, Pa.; a charter member of the Empire State Society Sons of the 
American Revolution, a life member of the New York Historical Society, 
and of the Old Colony Historical Society of Massachusetts, and a member 
of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and of the American 
Society of Naval Engineers. 
On October 28, 1884, he married, at New York City, Josephine Vermilye 
Lott, who survives him. 
