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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History of Greene County, Ohio,
its people, industries & institutions
by Hon. M. A. Broadstone, Editor in Chief -
Vol. I. & II.
Publ. B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
1918
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CLARENCE A. LINDSAY,
M. D. Dr.
Clarence A. Lindsay, a young colored physician at Xenia,
was born in that city on June 1891, son and only child of
Dr. Frank T. and Florence A. (Kirk) Lindsay, the former
of whom died in the summer of 1910 and the latter of whom is
still living, now performing the office of matron of the
girls department of Wilberforce University.
Dr. Frank T. Lindsay, who for years was a
physician at Xenia, was born south of hte Mason and Dixon
line and as a young man came North. After a course in
Oberlin College he entered Howard Medical School and upon
his graduation form the same, in 1875, located at Xenia,
where he spent the rest of his life engaged in teh practice
of his profession, his death occurring there on June 2,
1910, he then being at the age of fifty-eight years.
His wife was born at Van Wert, this state.
Reared at Xenia, Clarence A. Lindsay received
his early schooling in the schools of that city and was
graduated from the high school there in 1909. He then
entered Wilberforce University and was graduated from that
institution in 1911, after which he entered the Ohio State
Medical School at Columbus and was graduated from that
institution in 1916. Upon receiving his diploma
Doctor Lindsay returned to Xenia and entered upon the
practice of his profession there, occupying the residence
and office of his late father at 537 East Main street.
On July 20, 1916, Dr. Clarence A. Lindsay was
united in marriage to Margaret V. Smith, who also was
born in Xenia. The Doctor and his wife are members of
St. John's African Methodist Episcopal church at Xenia.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. by
B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.,
1918 - Page 994-995 |
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JOHN LITTLE. In many
respects John Little was one of the greatest men
Greene county has ever produced. As a lawyer he ranked
among the best of the county, while as a versatile man in
public affairs he was easily the greatest man the county has
ever produced, with the notable exception of Whitelaw
Reid. From the time he was mayor of Xenia in the
sixties until his death in 1900 he was before the public in
some official capacity most of the time, his succession of
official position including in order the following:
Mayor of Xenia, prosecuting attorney of Greene county, state
Legislature, attorney general of the state of Ohio, member
of Congress, member of Venezuelan commission, member of the
Ohio state board of arbitration and finally a member of the
court house commission of Greene county.
John Little was a native son of the county, born
in Ross township, April 25, 1837. He called this
county his home until his death in Xenia on October 18,
1900. He lived on his father's farm until he was
nineteen years of age. In 1856 he became a student in
Antioch College and graduated therefrom in 1862. He
then began reading law with Judge J. J. Winans in
Xenia. While still reading law he was elected mayor of
Xenia. He was admitted to the bar in 1865 and the
following year was elected prosecuting attorney of the
county, being re-elected in 1868. Before his second
term as prosecuting attorney came to a close, he announced
his candidacy for a seat in the General Assembly of Ohio.
He resigned as prosecutor, made the legislative race and was
elected by goodly majority to the fifty-ninth session.
He was re-elected and became a political power in the state.
In 1873 Little was elected attorney general of the
state and two years later was elected for a second term.
For seven years thereafter, 1877-1884, devoted himself to
his legal practice. He had been a partner of
Charles G. Shearer since 1872, a partnership which
continued up until the latter took his seat as a member of
the circuit court of appeals in 1887. In 1884
Little was nominated for Congress by the Republicans of
his district, and elected in the fall of the same year,
serving from March 4, 1885, to March 4, 1887. At the
close of his term in Congress he returned to his home in
Xenia and resumed his practice, but two years later he was
called upon to fill the position of the Venezuelan
commission to which he was appointed in 1889 by President
Harrison. Little was chosen president of the
board and wrote the preliminary opinion concerning the
disputed boundary line. Other official position came
to Little after his retirement from the Venezuelan
commission. Governor McKinley appointed him as
a member of the Ohio state board of arbitration and he held
this position until his death. When the county
commissioners decided to erect the present court house, they
created what they called a court house commission and on
that commission they placed John Little - the last
official position to which he was appointed. The court
house was still unfinished at the time of his death, Oct.
18, 1900.
(Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, its
people, industries & institutions by Hon. M. A. Broadstone,
Editor in Chief - Vol. I.- Publ. 1918 by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.)
Little was married Oct. 19, 1865, to Barbara
Jane Sheets. They had two children, George and
Mary. His widow died in Xenia on May 30, 1902.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, its
people, industries & institutions by Hon. M. A. Broadstone,
Editor in Chief - Vol. I.- Publ. 1918 by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind. - |
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