Grace Gertrude Garrison was born March 28, 1871 in Richland County, Wisconsin. She
became a teacher continuing on to Platteville Normal School and the University of
Wisconsin. She graduated from UW’s Music School in 1899. It was there she met her
husband Pearl Levi Lincoln who she married in 1899 and became Grace Garrison
Lincoln. P. L. Lincoln was an attorney and went on to serve as Richland County
District Attorney, Richland County Judge and the mayor of Richland Center. In 1906
she had a son, Garrison Levi Lincoln. She was active in socialism and in Women’s
Suffrage. She was also very involved in her Richland Center community. She passed
away May 17, 1970.
