The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-11

ABRAHAM JlNSOLN vi flQbCi1Off Tas
seventeenth century. when Samuel Lin
coin settled in bingham, Mass. He had
a son, Mordecai, who also had a son,
Nordecai, Who moved south to New Jer-
sey. This latter Mordecai settled in
Exeter township, Berls county, Pa,
about 1875 and bought a large tract
from William PENIS sons close to what
is now Exeter Station. He became
prominent in the early history of chat
region, and his nam is seen frequently
in the court records.
Mordecai Lincoln built a stone house
in the southeastern corner of his land
in a gorge, at the bottom of which the
creek flows. The house remains undis-
turbed, with the exception of an addi-
ton, which was built about 1900.
Mordecai Lincoln had three sons and
four daughters-John, Mordecai, Thorn
as, Hannah, May, n and Sarah. An
other son was born in 1875, shortly aft
er he died. This son was named Abra-
ham, and it is of him that we know
more than of any of the Pennsylvania
Lincolns.
Abraham Lincoln the first made his
mark in the politics of the county, for,
While the others were content to till the
soil, he nGpiYed to office. He was coun-
ty commissioned from 1878 to 1779, when
the county raised its full qnota of mon
ey for the support of the Continental
army. After that he is not heard Of
again until 1888, when he was elected a
member of the assembly. He was a
member of the state convention of 1887
and a membe of the state constitu-
ton convention of 1890.
The records show that the most init
mate association existed between the
Lincoln, Boone and Hanks families. In
Berks county they lived within half a
mile of each other when the country
was a wilderness. The Lincolns and
the Boones were closely related by
man. intermarriages in Berks county.
Whether the Hanks family had had n
similar relation to the Lincoln families
in Pennsylvania is not known, but it
Is certain that there were ties which
bound and kept them closely together
throughout their wanderings in Virginia
and finally into Kentucky.
Abraham Lincoln, the future presi-
dent, was born in Hardin county, KY,
Feb. IL, 1909, and how natural was it
when Thomas Lincoln and his wife
Nancy came to choose a name for their
son that they should turn back and re-
call that other Abraham Lincoln of
Berks county, who had held offices at
the hands of the people. and name the
boy after him.
III 1850. at the same time when he
Boones and the Hankses set off from
the same reighborhood for the south,
Mordecai Lincoln's son John moved
with his family to the Shenandoah val
ley. Rockingham county, Va. From
there his son Abraham removed into
Kentucky in 1882 and was killed by the
indians, leaving three sons, of whom
Thomas. the youngest, vas father Of
the president.
Through five successive generations
of the Lincolns, beginning with Nor
decai, the original settler in Berks
county, to the lamented president, there
were at least three Mordecais, three
Abrahams. four Johns and four Thorn
asses.
Gallant Vesnvtus.
Bernhard mas been tempting Vesuvius
and the volcanoes flames clipped a curl as
a souvenir. The gallant old crater evil
IDENTIFY appreciated what was. expected of
it in the way of advertising and now has
one more relic to lay away with those
several Pompeiian beauties of 70 A.. d.