BIO: THOMAS A. LINDSAY, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, pages 487-488
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      THOMAS A. LINDSAY, proprietor of the hotel at Bowmansdale, Cumberland
  county, comes of good Scotch ancestry, and has inherited many of the sterling
  traits of that hardy race. Industry and steady persistence have marked his
  successful career; and his pleasant social disposition has been a marked
  factor in his popularity in the role of "host."
      
      Thomas Lindsay, his grandfather, was a woolen manufacturer in Scotland,
  and upon his emigration to this country, he settled in Newville, Cumberland
  county, where he carried on the wool business. Nothing more is known in the
  Lindsay family regarding his history, with the exception that he died at the
  age of eighty years, and was buried near Newville.
      
      James Y. Lindsay, son of Thomas and father of Thomas, was born in
  Newville. After completing his school days, and while still a young man, he
  engaged in the woolen business with his father. Later he moved to Cincinnati,
  and for the remainder of his life lived there. In the early part of the War of
  the Rebellion, he enlisted in Company C, 12th Kentucky Infantry, attached to
  Gen. Thomas' division, and at the end of three years he was honorably
  discharged for disability contracted during his term of service. During his
  life he took an active interest in politics, as a Republican, and held many
  offices in the city of Cincinnati. In religion, he followed the footsteps of
  his ancestors, and was a Presbyterian. In early life he married Elizabeth
  Callen, from the well known Callen family of Franklin county. He died in
  Cincinnati, at the age of sixty-three years, leaving the following children:
  Mary J. Eckels, living in Mechanicsburg; Ella Hauck and Samuel P., both
  living at home; and Thomas A.
      
      Thomas A. Lindsay, the subject of the sketch, was born July 3, 1865, in
  the city of Cincinnati. Part of his schooling he received in that city, and
  part in Mechanicsburg, as the family moved to the last named place, when he
  was quite young. After his school days were completed he learned the leather
  business, polishing and netting, with James Huston. After spending seven
  years at that trade, he learned cigar making, and for a number of years
  pursued that occupation throughout the coal region. In 1893 he engaged in the
  hotel business at Shepherdstown, and in 1897 he sold out and bought the
  property and hotel he now occupies in Bowmansdale. Careful consideration for
  the comfort and convenience of his guests, and
      
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  the homelike atmosphere that pervades the hostelry, have combined to make
  it a most popular resting place.
      
      Mr. Lindsay was married to Laura Blaine, a member of the Blaine family of
  Perry county. Mr. Lindsay was formerly a Republican, but of late years has
  been found in Democratic ranks. He and his wife are members of the
  Presbyterian Church, and they are prominent in the social life of the
  community.