BIO: Joseph A. Lindsay, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

                               CHAPTER LX.

                       WEST PENNSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.

582  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  JOSEPH A. LINDSAY, miller, P. O. Newville, is a great-grandson of 
Samuel Lindsay, of Scotch origin, who early settled in this township 
and married Jane Martin, about 1766, and by her had five children:  
William, Robert, Jane, Margaret and Nancy.  Robert Lindsay, who was a 
noted teacher in this county, married Elizabeth Conley, February 21, 
1797, and was father of the following named children:  Nancy, Joseph 
C., Samuel and Lacy.  Of these children Joseph C. (father of our 
subject), was born in West Pennsborough Township, this county, in 1802; 
learned the miller's trade at the Shellabarger Mills (with the owners 
of that mill), and during his life-time followed that occupation and at 
the time of his death had engaged forty years continuously in the 
business.  He (Joseph C.) was married December 24, 1829, to Elizabeth 
Shellabarger, born September 15, 1809, by whom he had five children:  
Anna M., John, Lacy, Mary J. and Robert (the latter was burned to death 
in the Hays Mill in Frankfort Township, this county, March 2, 1849).  
The death of Joseph C. Lindsay's first wife occurred February 19, 1841, 
and September 20, 1845, he married Mrs. Barbara (Bear) Stevick (who by 
her first husband was the mother of David B. and Sarah A., wife of W. 
Scott McGaw; David B. Stevick married Ellen Black and resides in 
Carlisle).  Mr. Lindsay's second marriage was blessed with one child:  
Joseph A., born June 27, 1846.  The second wife died in 1885.  Our 
subject learned his trade with his father and, after the death of the 
latter, purchased the mill, in 1880.  He was married, in 1867, to 
Clara, daughter of John and Rebecca Rhodes, residents near Middle 
Spring, Franklin Co., Penn.  Of the five children born to this union 
two are living:  Ralph and Laura.