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and papers on prison reform and African coloni- zation. He edited the second and third Reports of the NashviUe Board of Health (1877-79), and The Second Quadrennial Report of the Tennes- see State Board of Health (1880-84); and nine volumes of the State Board of Health Bulletin (1885-94). He also edited and published: The Military Annals of Tennessee, Confederate; Ency- cloptedia of Tennessee History, and pamphlets which readied a circulation of several thousand copies each, including: Memorial of Prof. R. M. Porter, D.D. (1856); Prison Discipline and Penal Legislation (1874); Medical Colleges (1858); Our Ruin; its Cause and Cure (1868)'; Reconstruc- iion (1868); American Colonization and Chris- tian 3Iissions (1873), and History of the Law School of Cumberland University (1876). He died in Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 7, 1897.

LINDSLEY, Philip, educator, was born near Morristown, N. J., Dec. 21, 1786; son of Isaac and Phoebe ((>ondit), grandson of Philip, great-grand- sen of John, greats-grandson of John, great-- grandson of Francis, and greats-grandson of John Lindsley (or Linle), who came from England and settled in Branford, Conn., about 1640, his son Francis removing to Newark, N.J., in 1666. Philip Lindsley was prepared for college hf the Eev. Eobert Finley, of Basking Ridge, N.J., and was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1804, A.M., 1807. He tauglit at Morristown and Basking Ridge, N. J., 1804^07; and studied theology under Dr. Samuel Stanhope Smith (q.v.), and was tutor in Latin and Greek at the College of New Jersey, 1807-09. He was licensed to preach by the presbytery of New Brunswick, April 34, 1810, and preached in Long Island, Vir- ginia and New England, 1810-12. He was senior tutor at the College of New Jersey, 1812-13; pro- fessor of languages, 1813-24, and librarian, in- spector and secretary of the board of trustees, 1812-24. He was ordained by the presbytery of New Brunswick in 1817, and was elected vice- president of the College of New Jersey in the same year. In 1822, after the resignation of President Ashbel Green, he served as acting pres- ident for one year, and was elected president in 1823, but declined to serve. He three times refused the presidency of Transylvania university, Ky., between 1817 and 1839; the presidency of Wash- ington college, Lexington, Va., in 1829; Dickinson college in 1829; the University of Alabama twice in 1830, and Soutli Alabama college, Marion, Ala., 1837. In 1822 and 1823 he refused the presidency of Cumberland college, Nashville, Tenn., but ac- cepted in 1824. He was inaugurated Jan. 12, 1825, and on Nov. 27, 1826, the name was changed to the University of Nashville. He added to the library of 100 volumes, 1500 volumes, which he bi'ought from New Jersey, and $6000 worth of

apparatus for the laboratory obtained in Europe. He taught the classes in belles-lettres, political, moral and mental philosophy, and with his as- sistant, George "W. McGeehe, and two tutors, conducted the university for several years, the faculty being afterward increased to four profes- sors and three tutors. During his entire admin- istration, he gave diplomas to only 410 graduates. He resigned in May, 1850, and was professor of ecclesiastical polity and biblical arcliseology in the New Albany Theological seminary, Ind., 1850- 53, when lie resigned. He was moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly held in Philadel- phia in 1834, and a commissioner to that held in Nashville, Tenn., in May, 1855. He received the degree of D.D. from Dickinson college in 1823. He was married, Oct. 14, 1813, to Margaret Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon. Nathaniel Lawrence, at- torney-general of the state of New York; of their sons, John Berrien (q.v.) was chancellor cf the University of Nashville, and Nathaniel Law- rence (born 1816, died 1868) was professor in Cumberland university, Tenn., 1844-50, and re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from there in 1859. His first wife died in 1845, and he was married secondly in 1849 to Mary Ann (Silliman) Ayers, widow of Elias Ayers, who founded the New Albany Theological seminary, and daughter of Major William Silliman, of Fairfield, Conn. He •was elected a member of the Northern Society of Antiquarians, Copenhagen, Denmark in 1837. He is the author of baccalaureate addresses and ser- mons, which were collected by Dr. Leroy J. Halsey and published in Dr. Lindsley's Complete Woi'ksand a Biograj^hy (3 vols., 1868). He died in Nashville. Tenn., May 23, 1855.

LINK, Samuel Albert, educator, was born near Lebanon, Tenn., July 10, 1848; son of Wil- liam B. and Amanda (Randolph) Link, and grandson of Jonas A. and Katharine (Newman) Link and of Peyton Washington and Margery (Tucker) Randolph. He attended the Oak Plain academy, Montgomery county, Tenn., and was graduated from Ewing college, A.B., 1874, A.M., 1877. He was married in August, 1875, to Sallie A. Deboe, of Kentucky, who died in 1892. He was professor of Latin and English at Ewing col- lege, 1874-75; was given charge of the training school near Clarksville, Tenn., in 1886; was super- intendent of the Tennessee School for the Blind, Nashville, 1886-93: president of the Tennessee Female college at Franklin, Tenn., 1893-95, and was appointed teacher of Latin in the Nashville High school in 1895. He was elected a member of the Tennessee Historical society in 1889, and subsequently a member of the Modern Language association. He is the author of Pioneers of Southern Literature (2 vols., 1899-1900), and con- tributions to periodicals.