CHAPTER XIII.

Lincoln was a portion of the old township of Grant (which succeeded Lura township), being cut off from it in 1870 and technically known as township 76, range 34. Its civil organization took place on the 11th of June, 1870, at the residence of Andrew Trimmer (official organizer), on section 17. At the first election, in the fall of that year, the following officers were elected: C. M. Felt, clerk; H. Van Schaack, assessor; Andrew Trimmer, H. Van Schaack, and James Harrison, trustees; W. S. Sherman and J. B. West, road supervisors.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

Lincoln township is situated in the eastern tier, with Grant on the north, Adair county on the east, Massena township on the south and Franklin on the west. It is watered by Seven-Mile creek and its branches, which finds its source in the northeastern protion of the township, flowing southwest through sections 14, 15, 22,28, 32 and 31, entering Massena from the last named section and flowing through the northwest corner of section 12, of that township, into Union. The land is generally rolling and open, and the soil rich and productive, there being only a few acres of timber in the northwest corner of the township. It contains no organized town, or civic corporation, and no railway lines, being solely a rich, progressive and substantial district of agricultural and live-stock interests.

"Compendium and History of Cass County, Iowa." Chicago: Henry and Taylor & Co., 1906, pg. 158.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, November, 2013.