CHARTER MEMBERS: Who Were These Men? Gideon Lincecum

•  Jim Bowie’s Second Cousin  
•  Explorer of Alabama, Mississippi, Texas
 Friend and researcher of Native Americans

 Extensive Author of at least Six Scholarly works

 While continuing to practice medicine, he became recognized as an astute naturalist, corresponded with internationally known scientists, and contributed valuable collections to the Philadelphia Academy of Science and the Smithsonian Institution.

 Charles Darwin sponsored the publication of one of Lincecum's papers in the Journal of the Linnaean Society in 1862. 

  In 1868, at the age of seventy-six, Lincecum joined a Confederate colony in Mexico. He spent five years there working his banana plantation, exploring Indian ruins, and continuing his natural history collection and correspondence. 

 “In spite of his controversial ways and beliefs, those who knew Gideon Lincecum regarded him as a man of honor, dedicated to the betterment of society through exploration and research.”