. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ntil 1882, when heassumed charge ofthe Boston StorageWarehouse Com-pany, which he stillmanages. hi 1847he was elected to theState Legislature ; re-elected in 1848, andin 1872 and 1874;was a member of theConstitutional Con-vention of 1853, andfrom 1854 to 1S56was president of theCharitable MechanicAssociation. Whenit was proposed in1880 to erect thepresent building hewas e ar n es t ly re-cpiested to and didaccept the office oftreasurer. In 1868he was appoin
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ntil 1882, when heassumed charge ofthe Boston StorageWarehouse Com-pany, which he stillmanages. hi 1847he was elected to theState Legislature ; re-elected in 1848, andin 1872 and 1874;was a member of theConstitutional Con-vention of 1853, andfrom 1854 to 1S56was president of theCharitable MechanicAssociation. Whenit was proposed in1880 to erect thepresent building hewas e ar n es t ly re-cpiested to and didaccept the office oftreasurer. In 1868he was appointed tothe State Board ofHarbor Commis-sioners ; for several years he was chairman. For elevenyears he was president of the Boston Board of Overseersof the Poor, and in April, 1878, became treasurer, whichposition he still holds. Mr. Lincoln was one of the original directors of the Continental Bank ; is a trustee of theMassachusetts Institute of Technology ; vice-president ofthe Boston Safe Deposit Company ; has been treasurer ofthe Young Mens Benevolent Society for more than fortyyears; is president of the Franklin Savings Bank; was. FREDERIC WALKER LINCOLN president of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society,the constituted term, a Fellow of the American Academy,and one of the founders of the Young Mens ChristianLInion, and its second president. He was a member ofthe Boston Light Infantry, and ranks now upon itshonorary roll of veterans. In 1854 he became adirector of the Bunker Hill Monument Association, andfor ten years, up to 1890, was one of its that year he was made president. For nearly forty years he has beentreasurer of the Sec-ond Chtirch in Bos-ton. His terms asm a y o r of liostonwere: 1858- 60,1863-66. Notableamong the publicdeeds of Mayor Lin-coln was the quellingof the draft h e MassachusettsCommandery of theMilitary Order ofthe Loyal Legion hascomplimented h i mfor this and similarservices by makinghim a member. Hedelivered the prese
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