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Below is a sample of a family biography
included in the Dade County, Missouri History published in 1889 by Goodspeed
Publishing Company.
These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing
ancestors or filling in the details in a family tree. Family biographies often
include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.
Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place
of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including
maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if
married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service,
church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often
ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical
record.
Joseph B. Lindsey, stock dealer and feeder at Lockwood, Mo., was born in Fond
du Lac County, Wis., in 1847, and is the son of Keyes and Almira (Button)
Lindsey, natives of Vermont, born in 1809 and 1811, respectively. Keyes
Lindsey was left an orphan when a boy, and was partly reared in New York. Mrs.
Lindsey went to New York with her parents when young, there met and was
married to Mr. Lindsey, and there remained until 1845, when they removed to
Fond du Lac, Wis., and there lived until 1881. They then moved to Dade County,
Mo., where the mother is still residing. Mr. Lindsey died March 10, 1889. Both
were members of the Presbyterian Church for many years. While living in New
York Mr. Lindsey was a carriage manufacturer, and after moving to the West he
was a trader in real estate, at which he was very successful. He was of
Scotch-Irish descent. Joseph Button, the paternal grandfather of the subject
of this sketch, was a native of Vermont, and died in New York, where he left a
large family. Joseph B. Lindsey is the second in a family of two sons and one
daughter; Mary (deceased), Joseph B. and Darius P. Joseph B. Lindsey attended
the public schools until fifteen years of age, and then two years at Ripon
College, Wis. When about nineteen years of age he took a course at Eastman's
Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He then followed various business
transactions in Wisconsin until 1869, when he came to Dade County and settled
on the wild prairie near where Lockwood is now located, and followed tilling
the soil for several years. He then settled in Lockwood, and has been for some
years engaged in the real estate business with Judge William M. Taggart. In
this he has been quite successful, and has succeeded in settling nearly all of
Southwest Dade County. In about 1883 he and the Judge purchased the Bank of
Lockwood, which they managed with their usual success for about two years,
when they sold out. In 1888 Mr. Lindsey went to Los Angeles, Cal., where he
was engaged in the real estate business for some time, and where he intended
to locate, but the boom subsided, and he returned to Lockwood. He was assessor
of Dade County in 1878-79; is a Republican in politics, casting his first
presidential vote for Gen. Grant in 1868, and is one of the successful,
enterprising men of the county. He is the owner of 240 acres of land, and also
has other property. He was married in 1871 to Miss Mary, daughter of Rev.
Norman and Mary Miller, of Green Lake County, Wis., where Mr. Miller died
about 1863. Mrs. Miller is living with her son-in-law, Mr. Lindsey. Mr. Miller
was a Presbyterian minister for many years. Mr. Lindsey is the father of three
daughters, all of whom he spares no pains to educate, and is an active worker
for the cause of education.
This family biography is one of 68
biographies included in the History
of Dade County, Missouri published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889. For the
complete description, click here: Dade
County, Missouri History, Genealogy, and Maps
View additional
Dade County, Missouri biographies here:
Dade County Missouri Genealogy
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