JAMES
LINDSAY, farmer, post- office Utica, Venango Co., Penn., is a son of
Robert and Adeline (McDonald) Lindsay. His father was born in Venango
County, near Utica, and settled in Mill Creek Township, this county,
about 1829 or 1830. He was a member of the Democratic party. He died in
1844, and his widow in 1854. Their family consisted of six children:
Finley, was a member of Company B, Eighty-third Pennsylvania
Volunteers, and was killed at the battle of Fredericksburg; the living
are Samuel M., was wounded at the Second Bull Run; John M., of
Franklin, Venango County; Walter B. (with Samuel), dealer in
hardware, etc., in Riceville, Crawford County; Ellen, wife of Frank
Stranahan, of Kansas, and our subject, who was next to the oldest, and
was born on the homestead he now owns, October 24, 1832. His education
was gained at the schools of the township and his principal occupation
has been farming, although for the past twenty years he has acted as
agent for all kinds of agricultural implements, and owing to his
enterprise and energy he is counted one of the leading farmers and
business men of his section of the county. He is now serving his second
term as justice of the peace, and has also acted as school director of
the township for a number of years. He is a member of the Sandy Lake
Lodge No. 434, of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Stoneboro
Agricultural Society. Politically he is a Republican. In 1872 he
married Miss Sarah, daughter of Robert Reed, of Mill Creek Township. By
this union they have three children: Phemie, T. W. and C. D. His wife
and daughter are members of the United Presbyterian Church of North
Sandy.
History of Mercer County, 1888, pages 1087-1088
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