manufacturer, civic leader, b. Dundee, Scotland. His family settled on a farm near Waushara (now Fox Lake), Wis. in 1843. With his brother, he founded the firm of E. J. and William Lindsay in Milwaukee (1872). In 1884, two other brothers joined the firm and it became Lindsay Brothers, eventually growing into the largest jobbers and manufacturers of agricultural implements in the Northwest. Lindsay served on the board of directors of several large Milwaukee corporations and was active in executive capacities for the Baptist State Convention, YMCA (both city and state), Wayland Academy, the Milwaukee House of Mercy, and the Milwaukee Exposition Association. E. J. Lindsay, Hist. of Lindsay Family (Milwaukee, 1925); Wis. Baptist, II (1900); J. A. Watrous, Memoirs of Milwaukee Co. (2 vols., Madison, 1909); Milwaukee Journal, Dec. 6, 1924; WPA MS.Learn More
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