History of Lincoln Township
From the Hinton Centinnial 1883 - 1983
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Compiled by Dick and Florence Spies, typesetting by
K & E Enterprise and porcessed by Carolee Hawthorne.
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Trancribed for the A.H.G.P for Plymouth Co., Iowa. by
K.K.B county cordinator on 14 March 2002.
This is a breif Story
and is not written here word for word due to any possible copyright
Lincoln's congressional loaction is township 90, range 45, west. It is located on the souht line of Plymouth County, with Elkhork township to the east, Stanton twonship to the north and Hungerford township to the west. It was orginaized in 1860.
EARLY SETTLEMENT: Lincoln township was not settled untill after the Civil War period. The first to be settle in theis township was William BARRETT, whose name was for many years well known in PLymouth County, from the fact thate was was chairman of the boiard of county dupervisors for many years. He settled first ins Hungerford township around 1857, then in Lincoln twp. in 1859 where he remained untill 1886 when he moved to South Dakota -- then known as the Dakota territory.
T. J. REA ( son of the pioneer, A. E. REA ) homestea in section 8 in 1869, but relaocted in Kansas.
The MATHWIG families were among the first in Lincoln township to effect settlemnet along the northern line. They came in soon after the close of the Civil War. The father died in 1887.
Davis PHILLIPS came from Cardiff, South Wales, in 1869. He homesteaded in the spring of 1870 and died in 1908.
Y. BECKER homesteaded in the sothwest quarted of section 50, in the summer of 1869, bringing his family from Callin, Illinois.
Mr. BECKER laster moved to Leeds, Iowa, near Sioux City.
E. T. WRIGHT homesteaded in section 28, first; then changed to section 19.
Charles JACKMAN came in 1869 and located in the southwest quarter of section 14. He was a tailor by trade, but proved his worth as a sturdy farmer. He died in 1879, leaving four children, two of whom remained in the township where the family first settled.
John BARRETT homesteaded in section 18 in 1869.
Later in the 1860's, Christina CLOVNER , later to LeMars. John BARNHOLTZ / BORNHOLTZ, later to Leeds, and JAcob SEBREN and family, were residents for a time in section 18 in a sod house.
Galon SOULE came to Sioux City in 1867, after his service in the Civil War as a Union soldier, and in the next year homesteaded in section 20. Four years later he married and later relocated in section 18.
William PERON homestead in the early 1870's in section 20. He was for many years the Justic of the Peace in Lincoln township.
In the eastern part of this township early settlers include James ELDRIDGE, Jack REDFORD and Steve RHINE.
From that date on till the famil completion of the Illinois Central railroad, there was but little addition to the settlemen. Up to that event the mail all had to be brought from Sioux City and sometimes not ofterner that once a month. Sometimes in mid-winter one settler would venture out to Sioux City and get the mail and distribute it here and there on his way home. When the office at
James Station was established in "seemed more like living", for mail came daily.
SCHOOL & CHURCHES: Fron the school house built in 1871 and which served so many years as church, school house and public hall. S. B. GILLILAND taught the first school in the school house. Mrs. Joel BARRETT was the first to teach in the east part of Lincoln township, teaching at her own home.
THE TOWNSHIP'S FIRSTS -
the FIRST TWP. MEETING accured in 1872 ( precide date not given )
TREASURER was William BARRETT, Sr.
SECRETARY: was E. T. WRIGHT
CLERK: John BARRETT
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: John BARRETT
ASSESOR was P. W. SNOWDEN
FIRST MARRIAGE was that of Mark LANG and Anna LUKESEN - Lang was a homesteader in section 4. He died on 1894.
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