EARLY DAYS IN GREENBUSH Clinton Lincoln Clinton Lincoln was born in Cortland county, New York, September 24, 1824. He was a son of William and Ruth (Saxton) Lincoln. William Lincoln was a native of New York; Ruth Saxton, his wife, was born in Virginia. Clinton Lincoln spent the first twenty-four years of his life in […]

EARLY DAYS IN GREENBUSH Levi Lincoln Levi Lincoln was born in Virgil, Cortland county, New York, November 4, 1825. In 1851, he left his native state and went to Iowa, where he remained for one year. In 1852, he came to Greenbush, Warren county, Illinois, where he worked at the carpenter trade for five years. […]