Frederic Walker Lincoln IV was born on October 15, 1898, in New York City to Philena and Frederic Walker Lincoln III.[2] His father was a distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln.[3] His paternal grandparents were Emily Caroline Lincoln and Frederic W. Lincoln Jr., the former mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, during the Civil War.[2] Together, his parents had five children, of which he was the only boy:
Florence Lincoln (1897–1998), who married William A. Rockefeller (1896–1973) in 1918. After their divorce, she married George Sloan (died 1955), chairman of the board of the Metropolitan Opera Association. After his death, she married H. Bartow Farr (died 1972) in 1959. He was a partner in the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher.[4]
Frederic Walker Lincoln IV (1898–1968).
Mary Knight Lincoln (1898–1974), who married W. Stapley Wonham (1898–1973)[5] in 1923.[6]
Philena Hope Lincoln (1901–1993), who married Reginald G. Coombe (1895–1976)[7] in 1922.[8]
Emily Caroline Lincoln (1906–1991), who married Sidney Lanier (1902–1986)[9] in 1927, the grandson of poet Sidney Lanier (1842–1881).[10]
After graduating from Princeton, he joined his father's export-import firm H. W. Peabody & Co., of which he became a partner, until World War II began. He enlisted as a sergeant in the aviation section of the Army Signal Corps and fought in World War II in the Naval Air Reserve, retiring with the rank of Commander.[1]
^ abCutter, William Richard (1913), New England Families Genealogical and Memorial, A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation, Volume II, New York, N.Y.: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, pp. 670–671
children of John Davison Rockefeller III children of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller children of Laurance Spelman Rockefeller children of Winthrop Rockefeller children of David Rockefeller children of Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller
