Thomas Lincoln Portrait and Family Gravestone, Dennysville Maine

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Dennys River Historical Society

Thomas Lincoln, Dennysville, Maine, c. 1850: Photographic portrait of Thomas Lincoln, born in Dennysville in 1812, student at Bowdoin College and companion of John James Audubon in 1832 and 1833 on the naturalist's voyage of discovery to Labrador in 1833. He lived in his family home in Dennysville all his days, taking a keen interest in farming, and natural history, and kept abreast of scientific developments through extensive correspondence, recorded in collection at the Dennys River Historical Society in Dennysville, Maine.
Thomas Lincoln, Dennysville, Maine, c. 1850

Photographic portrait of Thomas Lincoln, born in Dennysville in 1812, student at Bowdoin College and companion of John James Audubon in 1832 and 1833 on the naturalist's voyage of discovery to Labrador in 1833. He lived in his family home in Dennysville all his days, taking a keen interest in farming, and natural history, and kept abreast of scientific developments through extensive correspondence, recorded in collection at the Dennys River Historical Society in Dennysville, Maine.

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Thomas Lincoln Portrait and Family Gravestone, Dennysville Maine

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Photographic portrait of Thomas Lincoln born in 1812, and companion of John James Audubon in 1832 and 1833, who was buried with his family in the Dennysville Town Cemetery. During the trip to Labrador, he succeeded in collecting a new species of finch, which Audubon named the Lincoln Finch, "Fringilla Lincolnii," in the young man's honor. An account of the bird from Audubon's "Ornithological Biography" is refenced in the web link below.

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Web Links and URLs

Lincoln's Sparrow, Audubon Society, Lincoln's Finch in Audubon's Ornithological Biography, Audubon's Dam site on the Dennys River