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Jonathan Thayer Lincoln

1869–1942

A Massachusetts manufacturer and social observer, he wrote vividly about factory life, labor, and the human side of industry. His books and magazine pieces bring early 20th-century industrial America into sharp focus.

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The factory

The factory

by Jonathan Thayer Lincoln

About the author

Born in 1869, Jonathan Thayer Lincoln was an American writer closely connected with New England industry. Records for his books identify him as the author of The City of the Dinner-Pail (1909) and The Factory (1912), and The Factory notes that it grew out of lectures he delivered for the Amos Tuck School associated with Dartmouth College.

Lincoln also wrote for The Atlantic, where his articles included "A Manufacturer's Point of View," "The Time-Clock," and "Trade-Unions and the Individual Worker." Those titles, together with his books, show a writer deeply interested in work, management, labor, and the social consequences of industrial life.

He died in 1942. Although detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm, the surviving work presents him as a thoughtful interpreter of the factory age, writing from firsthand familiarity with the world of manufacturing.