Benjamin Lincoln Lear
(1791/92-1832)
BIRTH
March 11, 1791/92
PLACE
DEATH
October 1, 1832
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FAMILY
FATHER
Tobias Lear
(1762-1816)
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Benjamin Lincoln Lear was Tobias Lear and Mary Long’s son, born in Philadelphia while his father served as George Washington’s secretary. He attended Phillips Academy and graduated from Bowdoin in 1810, then practiced law in Washington. Manuscripts include his 1816 Independence Day oration and family letters. He died in October 1832 during the cholera epidemic. Sources disagree whether his birth fell in 1791 or 1792; Bowdoin’s catalogue gives March 11, 1792.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Benjamin Lincoln Lear’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Benjamin Lincoln Lear is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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DEATH
Benjamin Lincoln Lear died on Oct 1, 1832. Benjamin Lincoln Lear was Tobias Lear and Mary Long’s son, born in Philadelphia while his father served as George Washington’s secretary. He attended Phillips Academy and graduated from Bowdoin in 1810, then practiced law in Washington. Manuscripts include his 1816 Independence Day oration and family letters. He died in October 1832 during the cholera epidemic. Sources disagree whether his birth fell in 1791 or 1792; Bowdoin’s catalogue gives March 11, 1792. The available account does not establish a detailed sequence of final symptoms, treatment, or bedside attendance.
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