Lindsay, John (Lindsey)

Born: 1773 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Died: 1842-03-16 Sangamon County, Illinois

Flourished: 1819-1842 Sangamon County, Illinois

Alternate name: Lindsey

Lindsay married Mary Glass in Kentucky, and together they had five children. He remarried to Sophia Lanterman, with whom he had two more children. Lindsay moved his family to Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1819. He settled just west of Springfield and established a farm. In 1821, he was appointed a justice of the peace by the County Commissioners Court. Politically, Lindsay was a Whig.

John Carroll Power and S. A. Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield, IL: Edwin A. Wilson, 1876), 21-22, 32, 460; U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Sangamon County, IL, 28; Proceedings of Whig Meeting regarding Candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor; Sangamo Journal (Springfield, IL), 18 March 1842, 3:4.