New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-16


:, william Lindsay was born in Rockbridge County,
va on September 4. 1885, the son of Andrew and
SaIlie G. (Davidson) Lindsay His grandfather
James Lindsay. went to Virginia from Lanarkshire.
scouand' In the latter part of the eighteenth
century.
william Lindsay was educated in the best schools
oI MS native county, and finding that his am
pitOh 10 become lawyer discouraged by his
lather who wished him to lead the life Of cOun-
Try gentleman. he left home at the age OF nine
teen and went to Hickman County Ky, where he
taught school while preparing himself for the bar
lie was admitted in 1853 and began the practice Of
his profession.
as private in the Confederate army. He rose to
the rank of captain in the 7th Kentucky and was
paroled as prisoner OF war at Columbus, Miss
in 1865.
returning to his home in Hickman County. Cap
tain Lindsay resumed the practice OF the law and
was soon elected County Attorney. In 1867 he was
sent to the state Senate where he began his long
ana close friendship with John G. Carlisle. Three
years later he was elected Judge of the Court of
appeals for the 4th District After serving eight
years the last two as chief Judge he returned to
private practice, opening an office in Frankfort
lie was sent to the state Senate from that district
IN 1883. President Harrison appointed him a mem
Der OF the Worlds Columbian Commission for the
united states at large, and in 1891 he was desig-
mated by the director general Of the Worlds Fair
appointment as Interstate Commerce Commissioner
In 1892, he resigned from the Worlds Columbian
Commission in February 1898, and was elected
United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation Of Senator Carlisle The following
year he was elected for the full term which ex-
pired in 1901.
jlrist of distinction. he sustained in Congress
an already enviabe reputation for breadth force
and independence of political Judgment Attached
Dy character and training to the older rather than
the newer. school of Southern Democratic states
thahship, he was consistent supporter Of Presi-
dent Cleveand's sound money policy and in 1899
ne joined with Senators Morgan and John NJ
Falther IN opposing the prevailing faint hearted
democratic policy in regard TO the Philippines
IN 1898 me Kentucky Legislature, at that time
strongly IN favor Of free coinage called upon SEN
ator Lindsay to resign. This he refused to do, IN
an able statement in which he maintained that at
the time of his election his views were well known
'hat ne represented not merely faction or a
party but the whole people Of Kentucky and that
he was not agent Of the LEGISLATURE The fol-
lowing year he delivered the address before
the joint meeting of the American and the Inter
national bar associations at Buffalo, ably support
ing the governments policy in the Far East.
On the expiration of mis- term as United States
Senator Judge Lindsay engaged in the practice Of
law IN this city. as the senior member OF the firm
of Lindsay. Kremer Kalish & Palmer raoai,,,po,
IN the same year the appointment of United States
Commissioners for the st. Louis exposition He
was trustee of the Carnegie Institution of Wash
lngton and member of the American Bar Asso-
ciation' the New York Bar Association, the Clan
Lindsay of Scotland, the Virginians. the Ken
tuckians, the Confederate Veterans and the Man
haitian and Lawyers clubs
Senator Lindsay was twice married first to Miss
henrietta Semple, of Kentucky. who died, leaving
one daughter, Marion, now Mrs Frank O. Suire of
Cincinnati His widow was Miss Eleanor Holmes
OF Frankfort, KY, daughter of the late Dr. George
Of
resident Of Macon, Ga Her marriage IN Tudsa
Lindsay took place in 1889