Lindsay, Samuel B.

LINDSAY

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Date: 7/9/2021 at 15:01:12

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.678

LINDSAY, SAMUEL B., farmer, West Washington Township, Sec. 11; P. O. Indianola; born in Jefferson county, Ohio, in 1821, and when about six years old his parents emigrated to Guernsey county, Ohio, where, in 1848, he received a local injury, which rendered him unfit for farming, and he engaged in the mercantile business, which he followed till 1856, and then emigrated to Rock island county, Illinois, and engaged in farming, and in 1858 he came to Marion county, where he also followed farming, and came from there to this county in the spring of 1860, and first settled in Allen township and came to his present homestead of 120 acres in 1866; in 1864 he represented this county in the tenth general assembly, elected by a majority of about 900. In May, 1864, he enlisted in Co. A, Forty-eighth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served till the expiration of the term of the enlistment, which was one hundred days; he was married in Ohio in 1844, to Miss Maria Chidester, of that State; they have seven children living: Francis A. (wife of A. Cramer, deceased), R. J. (wife of S. A. McElroy), Wm. T., S. I. (Principal of Commercial College, Monmouth, Illinois), J. P., Martha H., and Charlie B.