The New International Encyclopædia/Lincoln (Illinois)

LINCOLN. A city and the county-seat of Logan County, Ill., 29 miles northeast of Springfield; on the Chicago and Alton, the Illinois Central, and the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville railroads (Map: Illinois, C 3). It is the seat of Lincoln University (Cumberland Presbyterian), opened in 1865, and of the State Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, and has a public library, for which a building has been given by Andrew Carnegie, Odd Fellows' Orphans' Home, Saint Clara's Hospital, and Deaconess Home and Hospital. In the old court-house Abraham Lincoln practiced as a lawyer. The surrounding region possesses vast deposits of coal; and among the industrial plants of the city are coal-mines, flouring-mills, and horse-collar, mattress, casket, excelsior, and cellulose factories. Settled in 1835, Lincoln was incorporated in 1854. Its present government is administered under a charter of 1865 which provides for a unicameral council and a mayor, biennially elected. Population, in 1890, 6725; in 1900, 8962.