Lincoln Stedman Lincoln Stedman Lincoln Stedman (May 18, 1907 – March 22, 1948) was an American silent film actor. Stedman was born in Denver, Colorado, and was the son of Marshall Stedman and silent film beauty Myrtle Stedman. A large fat man, Stedman had a career in films dating back to his boyhood in silent films with his parents. He appeared in 81 films between 1917 and 1934. Overweight as a teenager, Stedman resembled Roscoe Arbuckle which allowed him to convincingly play adult roles far beyond his years in real life. He was married to Carol Rohe Stedman. One month before his
Mabel Conkling Conkling was presented to musician Walter Damrosch in 1933, both presentations by the New York Federation of Women's Clubs. Conkling was president of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors from 1926 to 1928. She was still on the board when the organization changed its name to the National Association of Women Artists in 1941. Conkling was also president of the Maine Women's Club of New York. In 1901 Mabel Viola Harris married a fellow artist, David Paul Burleigh Conkling. They had two daughters, Pauline and Natalie. She was widowed in 1926, sold her four-story Greenwich Village residence and