Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, at Their Thirty-First Annual Meeting, Held at Worcester, October 23, 1843: With the Address of Hon. John Davis

This is not the time to do justice to the character or fame of one, who in so brief a life, and in the midst of professional la hora, accomplished so much but I may, I trust, be permitted to glance at some of the leading traits of his history.

Mr. Lincoln was the son of the late Levi Lincoln of Worces ter, who, in his time, was an eminent advocate at the bar, great ly distinguished among his cotemporaries for his eloquence, and for the various offices of high trust and confidence which be en joyed. William was the son of his old age, and growing up after the father had relinquished public business, he was chiefly edu cated under his immediate care and instruction, until he was pre pared to enter College. Gov. Lincoln, like many others who have cultivated a taste for the classics, found in them a most agreeable refuge, when other more urgent demands upon his time ceased to engage his attention. Although his eyesight was greatly impaired, he was able, with the help of the large print of folio editions, to read the Latin, and probably the Greek writers. To this love of letters was William indebted for so able and gift ed a teacher, while passing through his preparatory studies. At this early period of his career, he was distinguished among boys of his age for the extent of his acquisitions, as well as for the maturity of his intellect. On one occasion, while a lad, he was selected to deliver an address on the 4th of July, before his com panions, and acquitted himselfin a manner that would have done credit to riper years.

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