OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - LINDSAY, William M. D. Family *************************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. *************************************************************************** NOTE FROM SUBMITTER: There were 2 sisters, one now desc., who worked on Lindsay for over 20 yrs., and their Aunt before them did a lot of the ground work. Consequently I would like it if you could think of some way to give credit to each of us. One of them is on the web and we are still working together. There are also 2 others, not on the net, working on this line. The other 3 lived in Dayton and a Historian from Ind. Med. Soc. saw a letter from me in the Dayton Library, we got together and I think that is how we turned up all of the Indiana connections. Then the Soc. publ. a book on him, but the Historian sent copies of 3 or his 4 med. journals to all three of us and said they are ours to do with as we see fit. They are not copyrighted. This information was lovingly compiled by Lindsay Brien, Carolyn Chapman, Eleanore Kilpatrick, Helen Silvey *************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Helen Silvey Helen_Silvey@macnexus.org http://jpaul.gwdi.com/silvey/ December 28, 1998 *************************************************************************** WILLIAM LINDSAY, M. D., FAMILY Dr. William Lindsay was born December 24, 1795, in Lincoln County, N.C., the son of Samuel and Eleanore Wilson Lindsay, Jr., whose other children were all born in Lincoln Co.: James married Isabella Wright; Nancy; Mary married Philip Haines; William, the subject of the biography; Samuel D., Jr., married Margret Dilbone; John Clarke married Eleanor Moore; Paul Gaddis married Lovelace; Elizabeth married Benjamin Loque. Dr. Lindsay was an ordinary midwestern physician whose legacy to the history of medicine was four surgical journals. These documents contain detailed case records from 1822 to 1841; three are housed in the Indiana Medical History Museum. These records have been chronicled in "The Journals of William A. Lindsay," edited by Katherine Mandusic McDonell, medical research historian of the Indiana Medical History Museum and published by the Indianapolis Indiana Historical Society in 1989. Dr. Lindsay began a teaching career in N.C. ca 1810. After his father's death in 1814, Eleanor, his mother, brought William and the rest of her children to Ohio where William accepted a position with the Dayton Academy. A year later, he began the study of medicine with Dr. Robbins of Mad River Township, Preble Co., Oh., and later with Dr. Steble of Dayton. Dr. Lindsay taught secondary school at Salisbury and Centerville, Indiana, in 1821-1822, after which time he moved to Lawrenceburg, Indiana, to practice with Dr. Ezra Ferris. In 1825-1826, he attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati and later received an Honorary degree from the Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio. In 1826, he moved to Germantown. In the spring of 1827, he relocated to West Alexandria, Preble Co., to practice medicine. In the fall of 1829, the family moved to Indiana, principally in Richmond, where he joined the Webb Masonic Lodge in 1835. In 1837, he joined the Richmond Antislavery Society and moved to Indianapolis. William Lindsay married three times and was the father of sixteen children. On March 6, 1819, he first married Rhoda Allison Smith, born 27 October 1801, died 9 October 1840, at Richmond, Indiana. William and Rhoda had ten children: Catharine VanDyke (born 27 February 1821) Eliza Ann (born 24 October 1822), the ancestress of two contributors of this history; Mary Jane (born 11 April 1824); LaFayette (born 8 April 1826); Rebecca L. (born 8 November 1828); Eleanore (born 1 March 1830); DeWitt Clinton (born 19 April 1833); William Washington Irvine, (born 29 November 1835); and Edwin Smith Blackstone (born 10 January 1839). Their first child, a son, died at birth. After Rhoda's death, Dr. Lindsay moved to Dayton to practice medicine, later moving to Donnelsville, Clark County, Ohio. William's second wife was Harriet Overton and they had one child, Charles, who served in the Civil War and died in the Dayton Infirmary as a result of illness contracted during his service. Harriet died on 17 December, 1842. William's third wife was Emeline Wilkinson whom he married 27 December, 1843. Five daughters were born of the marriage: Caroline (born 1846); Harriett (born 1849); Mary J. (born 1852), and twin Flora B. (born 1852); and Helen Adelaide (born 8 September 1861). Caroline and Flora married father and a son by name of Arnold; Helen Adelaide Squire had a daughter, Emma Lindsay Squire, who was a writer of note; second daughter Harriett Louise Victoria married Samuel Martin Guy and they were grandparents of one of the contributors of this history. In 1849, Dr. Lindsay was Justice of the Peace in Clark County. At that time, he moved to West Alexandria to assume the practice of Dr. William G. Lineaweaver. The last of his children was born there and in 1851, he joined the King Hiram Masonic Lodge. In 1852, the Eaton Medical Society was formed, reorganized in 1860, and Lindsay was elected one of three censors for them. In June 1861, he was elected president of the society, reelected in 1862. Dr. Lindsay was hard-pressed financially and in March 1864 he became a contract surgeon with the U. S. Army. He reported for duty as assistant surgeon at Camp Fremont, later in Camp Burnside, Pest Hospital and at the Military Prison Hospital, Camp Morton, all in Indianapolis. In December 1864, he was transferred to Louisville, Kentucky, to serve as contract surgeon. In 1866, Dr. Lindsay resumed practice in West Alexandria and in 1869, he became a member of the newly organized Preble county Pioneers Association. William died 7 May, 1876, in West Alexandria. He is buried in an unmarked grave in the cemetery (now Peace Park) by the Salem Lutheran Church in West Alexandria, Preble County, Ohio. The home of Dr. Lindsay still stands in West Alexandria.