Frederic Walker Lincoln Jr. (February 27, 1817 – September 12, 1898) was an American manufacturer and politician, serving as the sixteenth and eighteenth

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of Boston, Massachusetts from 1858 to 1860 and 1863–1867, respectively.

Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 1817 or 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became ...

criticized him for not protecting, with city police, a December 1860 public meeting in Boston to discuss

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. The meeting was broken up by a pro-slavery mob. On July 14, 1863, Lincoln ordered all 330 officers in the

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to quell a draft riot among

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attempting to raid Union armories in the North End. He elected a 3rd Class (honorary) Companion of the Massachusetts Commandery of the

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in recognition of his support of the Union during the

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Lincoln was the grandfather of

Frederic W. Lincoln IV Frederic Walker Lincoln IV (15 October 1898 – 7 April 1968) was chairman of the board of trustees of the New York Medical College and the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital who married into the Rockefeller family. Early life Frederic Walker ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lincoln, Frederic W. Jr. 1817 births 1898 deaths Mayors of Boston Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives People of Massachusetts in the American Civil War 19th-century American politicians

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