Brief Life History of Leland
When Leland Lincoln was born on 21 October 1896, in Elvaston, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Sylvester Decatur Lincoln, was 32 and his mother, Minnie Johnson, was 28. He had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Erna Alma Zimmerman. He lived in Rhinelander, Oneida, Wisconsin, United States in 1940 and Anoka Township, Anoka, Minnesota, United States in 1950. He died on 28 June 1978, in Anoka, Anoka, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Anoka, Anoka, Minnesota, United States.
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- Leland Lincoln, "United States 1950 Census"
- Leland Lincoln, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Leland Lincoln, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1898 · The Kensington Runestone
A Swedish man, Olof Ohman, was farming on his land when he came across a 202-pound rock slab that had strange writing on it. Convinced it was proof that Scandinavian explorers came to that area before Columbus found the Americas, he had it looked at by scholars and linguists to find its translation. There has been a drawn-out debate on the stone's authenticity, with a scholarly consensus that classifies it as a hoax and the community which is convinced that it is authentic.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of Lincoln, so named from an original British name Lindo- ‘lake’ + Latin colonia ‘settlement, colony’. The place was an important administrative center during the Roman occupation of Britain and in the Middle Ages it was a center for the manufacture of cloth, including the famous ‘Lincoln green’.
African American: adoption of the surname in 1 above, in honor of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the US, who abolished slavery.
History: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), 16th president of the US, was the son of an illiterate laborer, descended from Samuel Lincoln, who had emigrated from England to MA in 1637.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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