Frederic Walker Lincoln IV (15 October 1898 – 7 April 1968) was chairman of the

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of the

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and the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital who married into the

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Early life

Frederic Walker Lincoln IV was born on October 15, 1898, in

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to Philena and Frederic Walker Lincoln III. His father was a distant cousin of

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. His paternal grandparents were Emily Caroline Lincoln and

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, the former mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, during the

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. 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

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. After his death, she married H. Bartow Farr (died 1972) in 1959. He was a partner in the law firm

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. *Frederic Walker Lincoln IV (1898–1968). *Mary Knight Lincoln (1898–1974), who married W. Stapley Wonham (1898–1973) in 1923. *Philena Hope Lincoln (1901–1993), who married Reginald G. Coombe (1895–1976) in 1922. *Emily Caroline Lincoln (1906–1991), who married Sidney Lanier (1902–1986) in 1927, the grandson of poet

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(1842–1881). He was educated at

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and then

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, where he graduated in 1921.

Career and military service

After graduating from Princeton, he joined his father's export-import firm H. W. Peabody & Co., of which he became a partner, until

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began. He enlisted as a sergeant in the aviation section of the Army Signal Corps and fought in

in the Naval Air Reserve, retiring with the rank of

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. Lincoln was chairman of the

of the

and the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospital, retiring in 1965. In the same year, he was awarded an honorary degree from the

Personal life

On September 26, 1925, at Christ Episcopal Church in

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, he was married by Rev. John Lewis Lincoln to Isabel Rockefeller (1902–1980), daughter of

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(1878—1934), and granddaughter of William Rockefeller (1841–1922) and

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(1850–1918). Together, Frederic and Isabel had four daughters: *Isabel Lincoln, who married Basil B. Elmer *Calista Lincoln (died 2012), who married Henry U. Harder *Percy Lincoln, who married William B. Chappell *Florence Lincoln, who married Thomas L. Short Lincoln died at his home at 941 Park Avenue on April 7, 1968, in New York City. He also had a home in Deerpark,

References

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