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Description
Between 1819 and 1826, Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829), a lawyer and legislator, boarded with Dr. Cyrus Hamlin of Paris Hill.
In the several years before Maine became a state, Lincoln was the U.S. Representative from the 7th District of Massachusetts; then a U.S. Representative from Maine, 1821-26.
Lincoln was elected Governor of Maine in 1826 and died in 1829 while serving as governor.
This daguerreotype was taken from a portrait of Lincoln created ca. 1827.
About This Item
- Title: Enoch Lincoln, Paris, 1827
- Creation Date: circa 1827
- Subject Date: 1827
- Location: Paris, Oxford County, ME
- Media: Daguerreotype
- Local Code: Coll. 443, Box 3/2
- Collection: Miscellaneous daguerreotypes
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Daguerreotypes
- Governors--Maine
- Hamlin, Cyrus, 1769-1829
- Legislators--Maine
- Lincoln, Enoch, 1788-1829--Portraits
- Portrait photographs
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