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Lindsay, John Thomas

lawyer, author, poet, was born Jan. 8, 1818, in Mc- Connellsburg, Pa. For forty-five years the subject of this sketch practiced law in Peoria, Ill. During that. time, in connection with R. G. Ingersoll,. he built the west end of Peoria and Terre Haute railroad. He. was appointed on the McClelland and Seymour tickets as presidential elector, and in the contest between Douglas and a Lincoln was on the representative ticket. for Douglas. He went to Nebraska with his three sons, and started a cattle and sheep ranch in Knox county, naming the place Peoria. He is the author of three novels; and numerous poems.