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According to Goodspeed's History of Lincoln County, Missouri ( 1888 ), Lincoln County was named by Major Christopher Clark, the first permanent white settler, when he addressed the Territorial Legislature saying, " I was born, sir, in Link-Horn County, N. C., I lived for many years in Link-Horn County in old Kain-tuck.

I wish to die in Link-Horn County, in Missouri ; and I move, therefore, that the blank in the bill be filled with the name Link-Horn.

" The motion was carried unanimously and the clerk, not adopting the frontier parlance of the Major, wrote " Lincoln " in the blank space of the bill.

Others say it was named for Major General Benjamin Lincoln who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.