Hon. John G. Lindsay

LINDSAY

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 1/9/2002 at 13:36:06

HON. JOHN G. LINDSAY, attorney, was born in Franklin County, Ohio, November 13, 1836,
and six years later his parents moved to Van Buren County, Iowa, where he followed agricultural
pursuits. He received his education at Washington College, Iowa. On June 5, 1857, he came to
Garnett, and pre-empted 160 acres of land, eighty of which are now in the town site. He followed
farming. In 1858 he began the study of law with ex-Governor S. J. Crawford. He also attended
the law school of the Cincinnati College, Ohio, where he graduated early in 1860, and a few
months later was admitted to the bar in Franklin County, Kansas. He enlisted May 13, 1861, in
Company E, Second Kansas Infantry; was at once appointed First Lieutenant. The regiment was
re-organized in November of that year and he was mustered out, after which he was employed in
the Recruiting Service of the Government, until April, 1862. Returning to Garnett he recruited a
company, which was mustered into the Eleventh Kansas Infantry, afterwards changed to cavalry.
He was appointed First Lieutenant September 11, 1862, and promoted to Captain May 1, 1865,
serving until mustered out August 31, 1865. Returning to Garnett, he at once resumed the
practice of his profession. He was County Attorney for Anderson County from 1865 to 1870 and
from 1876 to 1878, and was a member of the State Legislature in 1870 and 1871.
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KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS
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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas (Anderson county), part 5

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