Charles T. Lincoln, proprietor of the Lincoln Advertising Service of New Haven, was born February 15, 1874, in the city where he still makes his home, his parents being William A. and Fannie Eliza (Sperry) Lincoln. His father was a major of the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery during the Civil war. The son pursued his education in the Dwight school of New Haven and entered upon his business career with the firm of English & Mersick, wholesale dealers and manufacturers of carriage hardware and supplies. He was afterward for two years with the New Haven Rolling Mill Company and for two years with Chamberlain Furniture & Mantel Company. Subsequently he spent seventeen and a half years with the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and has been one year with the Frederick M. Ward Company. For several years he was a director and the auditor of the New Haven Progressive Building & Loan Association. His activities have thus been broad and varied and from each experience in life he has learned the lessons therein contained. Thus steadily advancing step by step, he has come to the position which he now occupies in the business circles of New Haven as a representative and progressive man, conducting important interests as proprietor of the Lincoln Advertising Service.

     On the 11th of September, 1900, in New Haven, Mr. Lincoln was united in marriage to Miss Luetta Edith Fenner, a daughter of Edward and Esther (Knight) Fenner. Her great-grandfather served in the Revolutionary war and the same spirit of patriotic loyalty was manifest by her father in his active service in the Civil war. To Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln have been born a son, Gaylord Fenner, who is now five years of age.

     Fraternally Mr. Lincoln is connected with Olive Branch Lodge, No. 84, F. & A. M. and he is well known in club circles and in other connections. He is the secretary of the Kiwanis Club of New Haven, has membership in the Edgewood Club, is connected with the Sons of Veterans and is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce of New Haven. He is likewise the secretary and treasurer of the Donald G. Mitchell Library and the Beecher-Park Memorial, Inc. He is interested in all that pertains to welfare and progress along any line that is of benefit to the individual or to the community. For two years he was auditor of the Westville school district and at one time was secretary of the Edgewood Civic Association. These connections show the breadth of his interests and the nature of his activities. For two years he has been a member of the Second Company of the Governor’s Foot Guard of New Haven. He has long been an active and devoted member of the Calvary Baptist church and served on its board of deacons. He takes a most helpful interest in all lines of church work and is the secretary of the New Haven Baptist Union. He has never made the attainment of wealth the chief objective of his life but has at all times recognized his duties and obligations in relation to his fellowmen and in matters of citizenship, and his entire career, has been actuated by most high and honorable principles.