Evening star., 1898-10-14
DEATH OF DR.. LINCOLN
He Passed Away This Morning at His Resi-
dence Here.
A Practicins Physician in This City
for Nearly q Half q
Century.

DR.. Nathan 8. Lincoln died today about
1890 O'Clock at his residence, 1914 H street
northwest. His death was not unexpected
to the Immediate circle Of his friends, but
1t was not generally known that he was in
such a critical condition. The paragraphs
in the newspapers In regard to his sickness
has brought to the residence a constant
stream of callers, and today when the sad
announcement of his death was made the
expressions of grief that were uttered gave
some indication of the deep hold he had
upon the affections of those who knew him.
DIR. Lincoln had been sick man for
some time; in fact 1t is thought that he
never fully recovered from the attack Of
year ago, which was Of a nervous origin.
He, however, returned to the active prac-
tice of his profession which he had pursued
without interruption for nearly half of
century; but about two weeks ago he was
again taken sick and gradually he grew
worse until death came today. He was
away during the summer as usual and re-
turned this fail to take up his work, to
which he had devoted the years of a long
and useful life. Although in his seventy
first year, Dr. Lincoln showed but few
evidences of age. His hair was gray but
he had full figure and until quite recently
his complexion was ruddy.
While his acquaintance as a medical prac-
titioner, standing as he did for SO many
years among the leading physicians of this
city was a wide one, yet he had large
number of warm personal friends. He was
man of fine presence and courtly man.
Eers and of uniform kindness and courtesy.
He was loved by his patients, and his death
will come with all the force of a personal
loss to a large number of people in all
classes of the Community W , knew and
loved DR.. Lincoln. He leaves d widow and
two children to mourn his loss.
DR.. Nathan Smith Lincoln was born the
3D. OF April, 1928, in Gardner, Mass. His
ancestors on both sides were English his
father being a descendant of the Lincolns
Of bingham. Mass, who emigrated to this
county in 1885 His grandfather DIR,
Nathan Smith, was a celebrated surgeon
of his day, and founded the medical schools
of Yale and Dartmouth. His father, Rev.
Increase Turner Lincoln. was the pastor
of the Congregational Church in Gardner,
Mass.
DR.. Lincoln graduated from Dartmouth
College in the year 1850. He studied medi-
cine with his uncle, DIR. Nathan Ryno
Smith of Baltimore, a distinguished sur
geon of that city, and received medical
degree from the University of Maryland in
49, After practicing his profession in
Baltimore for two years be removed to this
city. January !, 1881, and mas been in con-
tinuous practice here from that time.
In the year 1851 he was elected professor
of chemistry In the medical department Of
Columbian University and subsequently
filled the chairs of theory and practice, of
anatomy and physiology and of surgery
in that institution. He held the chair of
surgery until 1874. when the demands upon
his time of his large private practice made
it necessary for him to resign.
In 1851 he vas appointed surgeon-in-chief
of the hospitals established in this city
by the War Department. and held this po-
sition during the entire period of the war
and for several months after its close. He
won distinction as surgeon and performed
a large number of important operations.
He was vice president Of the Medical So
ciety of the District in 1872, and served IS
president III 1870 He was a member of the
American Medical Association for the Pro.
motion Of Science and of the Philosophical
Society of this city. He was one of the
vice presidents of the ninth international
congress which met in Philadelphia in 1887
and was president of the alumni of the Uni
yersity of Maryland. In 1866 he was elect
ed one of the surgeons to the Providence
Hospital, which he resigned in 1878.