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renomiuation in 1878 ; practised at Frankfort, and was state senator, 1890-92. He was api)ointed by President Harrison and confirmed by the senate as a inember of tbe interstate commerce connnission in January, 1892, but declined the appointment. He was a member of the World's Columbian commission for the countrj' at large from its or- ganization to Feb. 20, 1893 ; was a candidate for U.S. senator in 1890 to fill the unexpired term of James B. Beck, deceased, but was defeated by John G. Carlisle, and on Carlisle's resignation, to take effect March 4, 1893, to accept the treasury portfolio, he was elected his successor, Feb. 14, 1893, serving through the 53d congress. He was re-elected in January, 1S94, for the term expiring March 4, 1901. He was chairman of the commit- tee on Revolutionary claims.

LINDSLEY, Charles Augustus, physician, was born in Orange, N.J., Aug. 19, 1826 ; son of John and Eliza L. (Condit) Lindsley ; grand- son of Daniel and Hannah (Williams) Linds- ley, and of Stephen and Mary E. (Ogden) Condit, and a descendant of John Linle (or Lindsle}'), Branford, Conn., 1G40, and of his son, Francis Lindsley, Newark, N. J., May, 1666. He attended the Rev. Anthony Ten Broeck's classical school and was graduated from Trinity college, Hartford, Conn., A.B., 1849, A.M., 1852. He was a student at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city, 1850-51, and was graduated from Yale university, M.D., 1852. He was married April 13, 1852, to Lydia Louise Harri- son of Orange, N.J. He was professor of materia medica and therapeutics at Yale, 1860-83 ; pro- fessor of theory and practice of medicine, 1883-96 ; was elected professor emeritus in 1896 and lec- turer on sanitarj' science, 1897, He was one of the organizers of the Connecticut state board of health, established in 1878, and was elected its secretary and executive officer in 1884, and ed- ited the annual reports of the board from that time. He was elected president of the Con- necticut Medical society in 1892 ; of the^meri- can Public Health association in 1898 ; and of the conference of the state and i^rovincial boards of health of North America, 1894-95 ; and an hon- orary member of the New Jersey Medical society.

LINDSLEY, John Berrien, educator, was born in Princeton, N.J., Oct. 24, 1822 ; son of the Rev. Philip and Margaret Elizabeth (Lawrence) Lindsley. He was graduated fi'oni the Uni- versity of Nashville, A.B., 1839, A.M., 1841 ; was a private pupil of Dr. Gerard Troost, the scientist, studied medicine in the University of Louisville (Ky.), 1841-42. and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1843, when he became a member of the ^ledical Societ)' of the State of Tennessee. He studied natural science under Troost, Lea and Jay, 1845-50. He was or-

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dained by the presbytery of Nashville in 1846 : served as stated supply at Smyrna and Hermit- age, Tenn., and for a year preached to the slaves in and about Nashville. He conducted a geolog- ical survey through the eastern and northern .states in 1847. He was professor of chemistry at the Uni- versity of Nashville, 1850-70 ; i^rojector and dean of the medi- cal faculty, 1850-73; became a member of the American Medi- cal association in 1851 ; spent his vaca- tions in 1852 and 1859 in the medical schools of France and Ger- many ; was chancel- lor of the University of Nashville, 1855- 70, and had charge of tlie pitals of Nashville, 1861-62. in 1857 to Sarah McGavock, Felix Grundy of Tennessee, gested the plan of embracing within the uni- versity the Peabody Education fund in the crea- tion of a state normal school and he was influ- ential in erecting the principal college building and gave a sum exceeding $10,000 for its construction. He organized the Montgomerj- Bell academy in 1867, and served as its principal until 1870, when he resigned to aid in founding the Tennessee College of Pharmacy, in which he was professor of materia medica, 1876-97. He was professor of chemistry and state medicine in the University of Tennessee, 1880-97. He was a member of the Nashville board of education, 1856-60 ; superintendent of city schools in 1866 and secretary of the state board of education, 1875-87. He served as health officer for Nashville, 1876-80 ; and was secretary and executive officer of the state board of health, 1877-79. and 1884-97. He was treasurer of the American Public Health association, 1879-97 ; a member of many learned societies in America and of the Royal Historical Society of London ; a director of the National Prison association and a corresponding member of the National Prison association of France ; a member of the American Tract society and the American Bible society. He gave his salary for twenty-three years to his assistants in the university and to the support of the Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery which he edited. He received the degree of D.D. fi-om the College of New Jersey in 1858. He con- tributed to the Preabj/tei'ian Quarterly (187.5-80), articles on " Cumberland Presbyterian Historj',"^