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From: Becky Teubner <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] John Lindsay of County of Kings, Ireland
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 19:44:03 -0600

1890 Buchanan and Delaware Counties History pgs. 351-353
J. J. LINDSAY, M. D. A community should be prouder of its native
than its adopted citizens, and, as a rule, it is. There is a reason for
this. The adopted citizen stands in the same relation to his community that
an adopted child does to a foster parent, while the native-born is like the
parent's own. And large-minded and generous-hearted as one may be, he
always finds that there is for him an interest, an amount of sympathy and a
certain tender solicitude clustering about the child of his own flesh and
blood that he finds nowhere else. The relations are reciprocal and the
feelings of the respect and tenderness mutual. Hence, the countless bursts
of patriotic eloquence which fills all speech and literature, and is
perpetuated in endless song.
The subject of this sketch, a practicing physician of Manchester,
Delaware county, resides within a short distance of where his eyes first
saw the light of this world. He was born in Elk township, this county. He
is "to the manner born," if that phrase has any significance severed from
its feudal origin. He came into this world July 24, 1858. He is a son of
one of the comparatively early settlers of the county. His father, John
Lindsay, moved into this locality in 1849 and settled in Elk township. He
came from New York City to this county, but was a native of Ireland. He was
in early years a carder and spinner, and found employment first in England,
having gone there when a boy, and afterwards in this country, working in
woolen-mills. He was an industrious, capable workman, and pursued his
calling with a diligence and faithfulness that marked him as an honest man.
His health giving way under the incessant toil and amidst the insalubrious
and unscientific conditions of the factories where he was a wage-worker
fifty years ago, brought him West in search of other employment, and he, in
consequence, became a citizen of Delaware county. He spent his declining
years on a farm and gave to his family, and through them to his adopted
county, the results of his best efforts with his remaining energies in the
shape of a comfortable but unpretentious farm home. He died in this county
April, 1872, at the age of fifty-two.
Dr. Lindsay's mother, Mary Bailey Lindsay, who is still living in
this county, is a native also of Ireland, having been born, as was the
father, in the County of Kings. They were married in Delaware county, Iowa.
She shared his fortunes to the date of his death, bearing him a faithful
and affectionate companionship. These, John and Mary Bailey Lindsay, were
the parents of ten children-Benjamin, Thomas, Jane, John, Henry, Mary,
Lizzie, Samuel, George and Maggie.
The fourth of these and the subject of this notice was reared on
the farm, being trained to the habits of industry and usefulness common to
farm life. He received an ordinary common-school training, and finished
with a literary and scientific course at Lenox Collegiate Institute, at
Hopkinton, this county. He subsequently attended Bailie's Commercial
College, at Dubuque, from which he graduated in August, 1879. In the spring
of 1880 he began reading medicine under Drs. Bradley & Sherman, of
Manchester, and when prepared for lectures took a first course in the
medical department of the state university at Iowa City and finished at
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of New York City, graduating in March,
1883. His course of reading was exhaustive, his preparation thorough. It
covered the general ground gone over by all students, and, in addition
thereto, private courses in chemistry, toxicology and physical diagnosis.
He located at once to the practice, beginning at Greeley in this county.
Barring the difficulties and embarrassments which almost of necessity
attend the first steps of the young physician, he made an auspicious
beginning, and his affairs steadily prospered. He was successfully engaged
in the practice at Greeley till June, 1888, when, with a desire of
extending his sphere of usefulness and widening his field of observation
and experience, he moved to Manchester, opening an office and entering upon
the practice there. He has resided in Manchester since. He has given his
time wholly to his profession since beginning it and has met with good
success. His change of location involved some falling off in his business,
as a change always does; but this was only temporary, and has been more
than compensated for by the increased opportunities which the change
otherwise has brought about.
Every member of a free commonwealth is expected to bear arms in
defense of public safety when occasion demands, and every citizen must
consent to fill public office when called thereto by his fellow-citizens.
Dr. Lindsay is as devoid of ambition for popular applause as any living
man, yet when called on he discharges his duties to the community in which
he lives with a zeal no less earnest and an exactitude no less faithful
than he brings to bear in his attentions to his own personal affairs. He
has served Delaware county as coroner three years, being appointed to fill
an unexpired term of another and twice elected, failing, however, to
qualify on his last election.
In October, 1887, Dr. Lindsay married, the lady whom he took to
wife being Miss Ella L. Cole, of Colesburg, this county, a native of the
county and a daughter of one of the oldest settlers of the county, Thomas
Cole. Dr. and Mrs. Lindsay have a pleasant home in Manchester and large
circle of friends in whose society they find not the least of the
enjoyments of this life. They are both members of the Methodist church and
zealous in all church work. The doctor belongs also to the Masonic
fraternity and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and he takes much
interest in these societies, giving them not only in their secret workings
his earnest support, but yielding to their broader plans and more
philanthropic purposes the loyalty of a sincere and humane nature.

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