Alanson Lindley Biography: Rutland County, VT Contributed by Teri Brown. Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ALANSON LINDLEY is a native of Vermont, and was born in Tinmouth, Rutland Co., March 4th, 1799. In the way of education be had the ad­vantages afforded by the common schools of his native town. At the age of 20 he left Vermont and came to New York State and taught school one winter, at Fort Ann, New York, and one at Cath­erine, two more winters at Middletown, Vermont, and two at Washington, N.Y. Thus time passed until he was 27 years old, when he moved to Cooperstown, Venango county, and engaged in the bu­siness of wool carding and cloth dressing, with James Kingsley, continuing there for eight years. May 6th, 1835, Mr. Lind­ley came to Meadville and bought the fulling mill built and owned by Lot Lew­is, which stands on Mill Run, on what is now Liberty street. Since then Mr. Lindley has made Meadville his home, carrying on the fulling mill to the pres­ent, though of late years he has not been its active superintendent. Mr. Lindley has been connected with the affairs of his adopted town: as a borough Council­man in 1842, as Poor Master, School Di­rector, in 1862-3 Collector of Taxes. A business man of enterprise, he purchased, in company with John Radle, the old Red Mill property at the head of Water Street, from Wm. A. V. Magaw, and ran it for 7 years under the firm name of Radio and Lindley. At the end of that time they sold out to Wm. Still and Dr. E. Ellis. On November 1859, Osiah Sackett, one of the native young men of Meadville, died suddenly in Columbia Parish, La., and it was necessary to return his body to the stricken parents. Mr. Lindley un­dertook the sad journey, and on February 6, 1860, disinterred the body, and taking charge of it, brought it home, an ardu­ous undertaking. When the new First Presbyterian Church at Meadville was completed, in the year 1874, Mr. Lindley ordered and bought the bell, 1200 pounds weight, and it now hangs in the tower, with the name of the donor cast in the metal, with the date of its making. He was also largely interested in the furnish­ing of the pews of the same Church. Mr. Lindley was married in 1825, to Lucretia Kingsley, of Fort Ann, Wash­ington Co., N. Y. She died July 15, 1886. January, 1837 he was married to Charlotte D. Martin of Erie Co., Pa., who died in 1862. Directory of Crawford County, 1879-80, page 243 Submitted by Teri Brown