Davidson County TN Archives Biographies.....Lindsey, William Henry 1878 -
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Author: Will T. Hale
WILLIAM HENRY LINDSEY, son of Alonzo Lindsey and Etha Jane Hagan, was born
July 6, 1878, in Nashville, Tennessee. On his father's side he is descended from
the Lindseys of Mount Lindsey-the leading branch of the Lindseys of Scotland,
who have been prominent in the affairs of that country since the year 1086. On
the maternal side the ancestry has been equally prominent in Irish affairs. He
naturally inherited, therefore, ambition in conjunction with ability, geniality
and cordiality.
Alonzo Lindsey was born and reared in southern Tennessee and although a mere
boy, served four years as an officer in the Confederate army. Beginning as a
private he was rapidly rewarded for meritorious service, and when the war ended
he was serving as captain in the famous Third Tennessee Regiment. Immediately
after the war he came to Nashville, and engaged in the wholesale grocery
business with which line he is still actively affiliated. On October 27, 1870,
he married Etha Jane, daughter of John A. Hagan of Lawrence county; and to this
union six children were born, Edward, Daniel, Eugene, Mazie, William and
Elizabeth, all now living except Mazie.
Mr. William H. Lindsey attended the public schools of Nashville until he was
twelve years of age, at which time owing to financial reverses it became
necessary for him to begin the battle of life on his own account. He secured a
position as messenger for the Southern Iron Company, and under the guidance of
Col. A. M. Shook, president of the company, and Mr. Percy Warner, its general
manager, he was given ample opportunity to improve his versatile talents. His
progress was rapid and in 1896 he resigned the position of assistant to the
treasurer to accept employment as confidential secretary to the late Colonel E.
W. Cole, with whom he remained until the colonel's death.
Thereafter Mr. Lindsey became associated in a similar way with Mr. Whitefoord
R. Cole, son and successor to Colonel Cole and with his various interests. Here
again he was rapidly advanced, and in a few years he has been promoted to
important positions and now holds the vice-presidency of the Napier Iron Works
and the Crescent Coal Company. He is connected with many other industrial
organizations of importance here and elsewhere. He is president of the Dealers
Fuel Company, Pinner Coal Company and Tennessee Mining & Manufacturing Company;
vice president Illinois Clay Products Company, and Consolidated Gas Purification
& Chemical Company and as director in the Tennessee Bank & Trust Company and
others. These will serve to show that while his start in life was not so good as
he might have desired, in twenty-two years he has achieved a splendid financial
and industrial success, which marks him a man of extraordinary attainments of
both intellect and acumen.
In addition to his large business interests, Mr. Lindsey finds time to assist
in the work of the Board of Trade, the Commercial Club and like organizations
and yet his most fascinating quality has not been told; as a member of the
social clubs, the Hermitage, Golf and Cumberland Park, he is rated the prince of
entertainers and devotes much time to this enjoyable pastime. Religiously, he
follows in the footsteps of his parents, and belongs to Tulip Street Methodist
church.
Politically he is a Democrat, but without being a partisan.
Additional Comments:
From:
A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in
commerce, industry and modern activities
by Will T. Hale
Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913
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