Lincoln Alden Colcord was a merchant ship Captain who sailed from Searsport (Waldo County), Maine. According to the source Searsport Sea Captains (1960), he sailed on the following vessels: the bark Charlotte A. Littlefield (1879-83); the barkentine Clara E. McGilvery (1889); the bark Harvard (1890-94, 1897-98); the schooner Gladys (1898); the ship State of Maine (1899-1903); the S.S. American (1907, 1910-11) the S.S. Kansas (1913, when he died); and the S.S. Virginian. Colcord and wife Jane French Sweetser embarked on a three-year voyage aboard the sailing vessel Charlotte A. Littlefield on their wedding night, June 4, 1881. They are also the parents of noted writer and journalist Lincoln Ross Colcord, and pioneering social worker and writer Joanna Carver Colcord, both of which were born aboard the Littlefield. He died in port at Bremerhaven, Germany.
Lincoln Alden Colcord was a merchant ship Captain who sailed from Searsport (Waldo County), Maine. According to the source Searsport Sea Captains (1960), he sailed on the following vessels: the bark Charlotte A. Littlefield (1879-83); the barkentine Clara E. McGilvery (1889); the bark Harvard (1890-94, 1897-98); the schooner Gladys (1898); the ship State of Maine (1899-1903); the S.S. American (1907, 1910-11) the S.S. Kansas (1913, when he died); and the S.S. Virginian. Colcord and wife Jane French Sweetser embarked on a three-year voyage aboard the sailing vessel Charlotte A. Littlefield on their wedding night, June 4, 1881. They are also the parents of noted writer and journalist Lincoln Ross Colcord, and pioneering social worker and writer Joanna Carver Colcord, both of which were born aboard the Littlefield. He died in port at Bremerhaven, Germany.
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