Lindsay, Robert B – Linn, Robert George
Lindsay, Robert B
governor. He was governor of Alabama from 1871 to
Lindsay, William
soldier, lawyer, legislator, jurist, United States senator, was born Sept. 4, 1835, in Rockbridge county, Va. He served in the confederate army continuously from 1861 till 1865; and was paroled as prisoner of war at Columbus, Miss., in 1865. He resumed the practice of law in Hickman county, Ky.; and was elected state senator for the Hickman district in 1867. He was elected judge of the Kentucky court of appeals in 1870, and served till 1878. From 1876 until 1878 he was chief justice of the court; and has practiced law in Frankfort since 1878. He was elected state senator for the Frankfort district in 1889; and was appointed and served as a member of the World's Columbian commission for the country at large from the organization of the commission until 1893. He was appointed and confirmed a member of the Interstate Commerce commission in 1892, but declined to accept the appointment. He was elected United States senator on Feb. 14, 1893, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John G. Carlisle; and was re-elected in January, 1894, for the full term commencing March 4, 1895. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.
Lindsey, Daniel Weisiger
soldier, lawyer, was born Oct. 4, 1835, in Frankfort, Ky. In 1863 he was appointed adjutant-general of Kentucky, and served till the close of the term in 1867.
Lindsey, Remembrance Hughes
soldier, educator, lawyer, was born April 14, 1845, in Jefferson, Pa. He received his education at the Waynesburg college; attended West Point Military academy, and became a lieutenant in the third regiment United States artillery. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Pennsylvania at Uniontown; has been district attorney; and in active practice for over a quarter of a century.
Lindsey, Stephen D
lawyer, legislator, state senator, congressman, was born March 3, 1828, in Norridgewock, Maine. He was a representative in the Maine state legislature in 1856. He was a state senator from 1868 to 1870, and president of the senate in 1869; and a member of the executive council in 1874. He was elected a representative from Maine to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a republican. He died April 30, 1884.
Lindsey, William
author, poet, was born in 1858, in Boston, Mass. He is a Boston writer; and the author of Apples of Istakhar, a volume of poems; and Cinder-Path Tales.
Lindsley, David Philip
clergyman, author, was born March 22, 1834, in Downsville, Del. For many years he was a teacher of sciences, and for fifteen years a successful clergyman. He was the author of a shorthand system known as Lindsley's Takigrafy. He died in March, 1897, in Springfield, Conn.
Lindsley, James Girard
congressman, was born March 19, 1819, in Orange, N. J. In 1872 he was elected the first mayor of Kingston, N. Y., and was reelected for six consecutive years. He became president of the Kingston City Railroad company; president of the Kingston Water Works company, and president of the Albert Manufacturing company of New Brunswick, B. A.; and in 1884 was elected a representative from New York to the forty-ninth congress as a republican.
Lindsley, John Berrien
soldier, physician, clergyman, educator, historian, author, was born Oct. 24, 1822, in Princeton, N. J. He attended the university of Nashville (of which his eminent father was president), from which institution he received the degrees of A. B., M. A.; and received his degree of medicine from the university of Pennsylvania. He then studied natural science for five years; and subsequently traveled extensively in Europe and America. In 1850 he commenced teaching medicine in Nashville, Tenn., where his life has been passed as educator and practical sanitarian. He served with distinction in the confederate army, and had charge of the numerous confederate hospitals in Nashville. For twenty-three years he was professor of chemistry and pharmacy in the medical department of the university of Nashville, of which institution he was dean of the faculty and one of its founders. This institution is now affiliated with the Vanderbilt university, of which he was chancellor. He is now professor of the State Medical university of Tennessee; was four years health officer of Nashville; and for the past fourteen years has been state health officer of Tennessee.
He is the author of Military Annals of Tennessee; and other works.
LAW- NATHANIEL LINDSLEY, RENCE, educator, was born Sept. 11, 1816, in Princeton, N. J. For many years he was professor of languages in Cumberland university, and subsequently founded Greenwood seminary. He was associated with Dr. Joseph E. Worcester in the preparation of the dictionary that bears his name, and had projected a great work to be entitled An Encyclo-Lexicon of the English Language. He died Oct. 10, 1868, in Lebanon, Tenn.
Lindlsey, Philip
educator, clergyman, college president, was born Dec. 21, 1786, in Morristown, N. J. He was president of the university of Nashville during 1824-50. His works were published in three volumes. He died May 25, 1855, in Nashville, Tenn.
Lindsley, William D
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He was elected a representative in congress from Ohio from 1853 to 1855.
Linen, James
poet, was born in 1808, in Scotland. He was a book-binder of New York city; and the author of Songs of the Seasons; and Poetical and Prose Writings. He died Nov. 20, 1873, in New York city.
Lining, John
physician, scientist, author, was born in 1708, in Scotland. He was a physician and scientist of Charleston who published in 1753 a History of Yellow Fever, the earliest American treatise on the subject. He died in 1760, in Charleston, S. C.
Link, Jesse
lawyer, was born April 12, 1828, in Tobinsport, Ind. In 1865 he was admitted to the bar, and has ever since been actively engaged in that profession. He has also been successful in general business at Booneville, Ind.; and bas always taken an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Link, John Ephraim
M. D., educator, physician, was born Aug. 14, 1839, in New Albany, Ind. In 1874 he was appointed professor of anatomy in the college of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis, Ind.
Linn, Archibald Laidlie
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1802, in New York city. He was twice elected mayor of Schenectady, N. Y.; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1841 to 1843. In 1844 he was elected to the state assembly. He died Oct. 10, 1857, in Grassfield, N. Y.
Linn, James
congressman, was born in 1750, in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1799 to 1801, when he was appointed supervisor of the revenue. For many years he also held the office of secretary of state of New Jersey. He died Dec. 29, 1820, in Trenton, N. J.
Linn, James Merrill
soldier, lawyer, was born Oct. 17, 1833, in Lewisburg, Pa. In 1854 he was admitted to the bar; and was actively engaged in his profession until his death. During the civil war he bore a commission as second lieutenant in the fourth Pennsylvania regiment; was commissioned captain in the fifty-first regiment; and subsequently served on the staffs of various generals.
In 1871 he received a commission as judge advocate with the rank of major in the eighth division of the Pennsylvania national guard. He died Feb. 23, 1897, in Lewisburg, Pa.
Linn, John
state legislator, congressman, was born in New Jersey. He was for many years a member of the New Jersey assembly; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1821. He died Jan. 6, 1821.
Linn, John Blair
clergyman, author, poet, was born March 14, 1777, in Shippensburg, Pa. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of The Power of Genius, a Poem; Valerian, a Poem; The Gallic Orphan, a drama; and Miscellanea. He died in 1804.
Linn, John Blair
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 15, 1831, in Lewisburg, Pa.
He is a Pennsylvania lawyer; and the author of Annals of Buffalo Valley; Pennsylvania Archives; and History of Centre and Clinton Counties.
Linn, Lewis Fields
legislator, United States senator, was born Nov. 5, 1796, in Louisville, Ky. He studied medicine in 1809; removed to Missouri; and in 1814 helped to fight the battles of his country, after successfully practicing his profession. He was elected to the Missouri state legislature in 1827. In 1833 he was elected a senator in congress, in which capacity he served until his death. He died Oct. 3, 1843, in St. Gene- ⚫vieve, Mo.
Linn, Robert George
lawyer, was born April 6, 1849, in Glennville, W. Va.
In 1870 he was admitted to the bar, after having attended the Cincinnati Law school. He was prosecuting attorney for Gilmore county for two years; and for twelve years was prosecuting attorney for Calhoun county. He has attained success as an able lawyer in his native city; and takes an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.