FREDERICK BOWEN LINCOLN, ARNOT, PA. Superintendent Tioga Division.
The Erie's chief representative at Arnot, Pennsylvania, is Frederick Bowen Lincoln, who is a descendant of old Puritan stock, his first ancestor in this country, Thomas Lincoln, having landed in Boston in 1632 and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts, some years later. There is a complete history of the family in existence from 1632 which records that for 200 years the descendants of Thomas Lincoln remained in and about Hingham.

About 1832 Mr. Lincoln's grandfather moved to New York City, and the subject of this sketch was born in Brooklyn, New York. His early schooling was in England, receiving in addition high school training in Connecticut schools. On May 20, 1887, he was employed by the Erie Railroad and was sent out as chainman with an engineer's corps. He was successively rodman, leveler, transitman and inspector until June 15, 1892, on the General Engineering Corps, and on the latter date was appointed Assistant Engineer of the Western Division. December 15, 1892, he was transferred to the Susquehanna Division as Assistant Engineer, and on November 1, 1895, was appointed Train Master of the Toby Branch in charge of transportation, maintenance of way and motive power departments, reporting to the Superintendent of the Bradford Division. May 1, 1897, he was made Agent at Salamanca, New York, in charge of the Salamanca Terminal, being promoted December 15, 1898, to his present position, Superintendent of Tioga Division and also Superintendent of the Blossburg Coal Company.


Excerpted from: "American Locomotive Engineers, Erie Railway Edition," H.R. Romans Editor; Crawford-Adsit Company Publishers, Chicago, IL 1899.