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of bishop coadjutor of Alabama in 1890. He was ai'clideacon of Boston, 1898-99, and a member of the board of managers of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States for several years, declining the position of the general secretarj^ of the society in 1899. The College of William and Mary conferred on him the honor- ary degree of D.D. in 1881, the University of the South a similar degree in 1895, and Washing- ton and Lee university the degree of LL.D. in 1899. He is tire autlior of : Hamilton Parish, Virginia (1875); St. John's Church, Georgetown (1886); The True American Citizen (1887); many published sermons and addresses and a number of review articles.

LINDSAY, John Wesley, educator, was born in Barre, Vt., Aug. 20, 1820; son of the Rev. John and Lucy (Nourse) Lindsaj^ ; grandson of Daniel Lindsay and of James Nourse, and a des- cendant of Christopher Lindsay, who came to Lynn, Mass., in 1629. He was gi-aduated at Wesleyan uni- vei'sit}', Middletown, Conn., A.B., 1840, A.M., 1843; at ' Union Theological seminary, New York city, 1842, and joined the New York con- ference of the Methodist Epis- copal church in 184.3. He was stationed at New Paltzand Plattekill, N.Y., 1843-44, at Troy, N.Y., in 1845 and at Lenox, Mass. , 1845-46 ; was tutor in Wesleyan university, 1847-48; professor of Latin and Hebrew there, 1848-60 ; pastor. New York city, 1860-65 ; president of Genesee college, Lima, N.Y., 1865-68 ; professor of exegetical theology in Boston Theological seminary, 1868-71, and in the school of theolog}', Boston university, 1871-83 ; dean of the facvilty of liberal arts, Boston university, 1873-82, a trustee of the university, 1869-82, professor of New Testament Greek and exegesis there, 1883-84, and was made emeritus professor in 1884. He was married June 16, 1852, to Emily Bond of Baltimore, Md. He traveled in Europe in 1874 ; was presiding elder of the Boston district of the New England conference, 1884-88, and of the North Boston district, 1888-94. He was a mem- ber of the board of education of the M.E. church from 1868 ; a delegate to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1864, 1868 and 1872, and fraternal delegate to the Canadian Wesleyan conference, 1870. He was a trustee of Wesleyan university, 1862-75, and was again elected to that office in 1887, and he received from AVesleyan the degree of D.D. in 1863. He contributed to the Methodist Quarterly Revieio and to the other denominational papers, and is the author of : Commentary on Deuteronomy (1874).

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LINDSAY, Robert Burns, governor of Ala- bama, was born in Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, July 4, 1824 ; son of John and Elizabeth (McKnight) Lindsay. He was educated at St. Andrew's university, immigrated to the United States in 1844 and settled in North Car- olina, where he stud- ied law and taught school. In 1849 he removed to Tuscum- bia, Ala., was ad- mitted to the bar, and engaged success- fully in practice. He was a representative in the Alabama leg- islature in 1853. He was married, Oct. 14, 1854, to Sarah Mill- er, daughter of William Winston, a wealthy planter of North Alabama, and grand- daughter of Antony Winston, a Revolutionary soldier. He was state senator, 1857-58, a presi- dential elector on the Douglas and Johnson ticket in 1860 ; and was again state senator in 1865-66. He served in Roddy's cavalry, or- ganized at Tuscumbia, Ala., in December, 1863. He was nominated for governor of Alabama at the Democratic Conservative state convention in September, 1870, and was elected, defeating Gov- ernor William H. Smith, serving one term. He died at Tuscumbia. Ala., Feb. 13. 1902.

LINDSAY, William, senator, was born in Rockbridge county, Va., Sept. 4, 1835 ; son of Andrew Lindsay ; grandson of James Lindsay » and a descendant of William Lindsay of Scotland. He settled in Clinton, Ky., in 1854, where he taught school, ocudied law and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He entered the Confed- erate army in July, 1861, as lieutenant, was made captain in the 2d Tennessee in- fantry, and was with the 2d Kentucky brig- ade until captured and paroled at Co- lumbus, Miss., May 16, 1865. He resumed the practice of law at Clinton and was elected state senator from the Hickman district in 1867. He was a judge of the Kentucky court of appeals, 1870-76, and chief justice, 1876-78. He declined a.