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JAMES W. LINDSEY, farmer and stock-raiser, Sections 7 and 18, P. O. Baxter Springs, was born and reared in Butler County, Penn. At the breaking out of the late civil war he enlisted in Company H, Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and did active service until November, 1864, when he was honorably discharged. In 1867, he came here and located, and has been successfully connected with his present business since. His farm contains 172 acres of improved land well fenced and watered and stocked. It has a nice orchard of 200 fruit trees, good buildings, etc. Mr. Lindsey has, for the last seven years, operated rather actively in connection with threshing business, and has the most improved machinery in that line controlled by steam power, with a capacity of turning out about 700 bushels of grain a day. As a matter of fact, Mr. Lindsey began his life here with $140, and has by dint of steady and persistent industry accumulated a handsome competence. He is one of the most active workers in connection with the development of the social life of his locality, and although having no children, he is one of the most active workers in his district for the support of good schools.