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Author: Will T. Hale

   WILLIAM HENRY LINDSEY, son of Alonzo Lindsey and Etha Jane Hagan, was born

July 6, 1878, in Nashville, Tennessee. On his father's side he is descended from

the Lindseys of Mount Lindsey-the leading branch of the Lindseys of Scotland,

who have been prominent in the affairs of that country since the year 1086. On

the maternal side the ancestry has been equally prominent in Irish affairs. He

naturally inherited, therefore, ambition in conjunction with ability, geniality

and cordiality.



   Alonzo Lindsey was born and reared in southern Tennessee and although a mere

boy, served four years as an officer in the Confederate army. Beginning as a

private he was rapidly rewarded for meritorious service, and when the war ended

he was serving as captain in the famous Third Tennessee Regiment. Immediately

after the war he came to Nashville, and engaged in the wholesale grocery

business with which line he is still actively affiliated. On October 27, 1870,

he married Etha Jane, daughter of John A. Hagan of Lawrence county; and to this

union six children were born, Edward, Daniel, Eugene, Mazie, William and

Elizabeth, all now living except Mazie.



   Mr. William H. Lindsey attended the public schools of Nashville until he was

twelve years of age, at which time owing to financial reverses it became

necessary for him to begin the battle of life on his own account. He secured a

position as messenger for the Southern Iron Company, and under the guidance of

Col. A. M. Shook, president of the company, and Mr. Percy Warner, its general

manager, he was given ample opportunity to improve his versatile talents. His

progress was rapid and in 1896 he resigned the position of assistant to the

treasurer to accept employment as confidential secretary to the late Colonel E.

W. Cole, with whom he remained until the colonel's death.



   Thereafter Mr. Lindsey became associated in a similar way with Mr. Whitefoord

R. Cole, son and successor to Colonel Cole and with his various interests. Here

again he was rapidly advanced, and in a few years he has been promoted to

important positions and now holds the vice-presidency of the Napier Iron Works

and the Crescent Coal Company. He is connected with many other industrial

organizations of importance here and elsewhere. He is president of the Dealers

Fuel Company, Pinner Coal Company and Tennessee Mining & Manufacturing Company;

vice president Illinois Clay Products Company, and Consolidated Gas Purification

& Chemical Company and as director in the Tennessee Bank & Trust Company and

others. These will serve to show that while his start in life was not so good as

he might have desired, in twenty-two years he has achieved a splendid financial

and industrial success, which marks him a man of extraordinary attainments of

both intellect and acumen.



   In addition to his large business interests, Mr. Lindsey finds time to assist

in the work of the Board of Trade, the Commercial Club and like organizations

and yet his most fascinating quality has not been told; as a member of the

social clubs, the Hermitage, Golf and Cumberland Park, he is rated the prince of

entertainers and devotes much time to this enjoyable pastime. Religiously, he

follows in the footsteps of his parents, and belongs to Tulip Street Methodist

church.



   Politically he is a Democrat, but without being a partisan.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913

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