Background
Lincoln, Charles Perez was born on October 7, 1843 in Quincy, Michigan, United States. Son of Perez and Harriet Patty (Hopkins) Lincoln.
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Charles Perez Lincoln
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Lived on farm in boyhood. Educated Hillsdale (Michigan) College.
Career
Orderly sergeant 1st Michigan Infantry, April 1861. At Alexandria and Bulletin Run, Virginia, May and July 1861. Captain 19th Michigan, 1862-1864.
Prisoner of war at Libby, 1863.
Colonel National Guard, 1871. Admitted to bar, 1871.
Assistant assessor internal revenue and chancery court clerk, Granada, Mississippi, 1871-1875. Consul at Canton, China, 1875-1881.
Post-graduate National Law University, Washington, 1883.
Deputy commissioner of pensions, United States, 1889-1893. Attorney for Kiowa, Comanche and Apache tribes of Indians, 1898-1899. Now in insurance business at El Reno, Oklahoma Mayor of El Reno, since 1903.
Commander department of the Potomac, G.A.R., 1888.
Home: El Reno, Oklahoma
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Married Mary Lawrence Price, 1864 (died 1896). Married second, Lizabeth De Vore Allen, May 15, 1899.
