Editing Lincoln County, Minnesota (section)

==History==
During and after the [[American Civil War]], the Minnesota legislature wanted to name a county after President [[Abraham Lincoln]]. Acts were proposed to effect this change in 1861, in 1866, and in 1870, but each time the effort failed by vote or was ignored by the county's citizens. The final effort was an act passed on March 6, 1873, dividing [[Lyon County, Minnesota|Lyon County]] into approximately equal halves, with the western half to be named Lincoln. The county voters approved this act in the November 1873 election, and [[Horace Austin|Governor Horace Austin]] proclaimed the county's existence on December 5, 1873, with Lake Benton as county seat. In 1900 a new town closer to the county's center was platted, and in 1902 the county seat was moved to that settlement, [[Ivanhoe, Minnesota|Ivanhoe]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Upham |first=Warren |url=https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog |title=Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |year=1920 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/minnesotageogra00uphagoog/page/n325 306]–308}}</ref>