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"The Constitutional History of New York ..."
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 [photograph and biographical information courtesy of the Convention Manual of the Sixth New York State Constitutional Convention (1894)]
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CHARLES Z. LINCOLN
Charles Z. Lincoln was born August 5, 1848, at Grafton, Vermont. An orphan at eight years of age, he resided during his childhood years with various relatives. He was educated in public schools and at Chamberlain Institute, in Randolph, New York. Mr. Lincoln taught school in Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Counties until 1871, when he began the study of law with Joseph R. Jewell, at Little Valley, New York, and with Charles S. Cary, at Olean, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1874 and thereafter engaged in private practice. He has been President and Attorney of Little Valley, a member of the Board of Education, a State Senator and a Delegate to the New York Constitutional Convention of 1894. His five-volume work, The Constitutional History of New York State from the Beginning of the Colonial Period to the Year 1905, is considered to be the definitive study of the growth of the New York Constitution. |
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