Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago. Reprinted by Southern Historical Press. p. 125. Franklin County. THOMAS N. LINDSEY, of Frankfort, was born in Campbell county, Kentucky, in 1808, and died in November, 1877. His father, John B. Lindsey, was born in Ireland, and became a prominent and influential citizen of Newport, Kentucky. He had a brother, Rev. Marcus Lindsey, who was a celebrated Methodist minister. On the mother's side Thomas Lindsey came of one of the old and honored families of Virginia. He acquired his early education in Augusta College at Augusta, Kentucky, then under the presidency of Martin Ruter, and studied law in Newport, Kentucky, with Richard Southgate. He entered upon the practice of his profession in that place in 1832, and three years later removed to Frankfort, where he spent his remaining days. There his abilities were soon recognized by his fellow-citzens of Franklin county, who in 1843 made him their representative in the state legislature. From 1845 until 1848 he held the office of commonwealth attorney; was elected state senator in 1850 and again in 1855, and in 1849 represented Franklin county in the constitutional convention. In 1868 he was elected to the presidency of the Farmers' Bank of Kentucky, at Frankfort, holding that office until the spring of 1876. Deeply interested in the welfare of his city and state, Mr. Lindsey labored earnestly for its interests, an exemplification of this being in his efforts for the advancement of commerce by the improvement of the Kentucky river and the building of the railroad from Lexington to Frankfort--one of the first railroads constructed in the United States. Until the breaking out of the civil war he was a member of the Whig party, but was afterward identified with the Democracy. A valued and frequent contributor to the press, many of his articles, published in the Democratic papers, gained a widespread circulation and brought down upon him the enmity of the military authorities in Kentucky, so that he retired from political life. He was distinguished in his profession for his devotion to the cause of his clients, for a straightforward career that swerved not from the path of right as he saw it and for his sale financial and executive ability. Socially he was connected with the Masonic fraternity, and in the later years of his life he held membership in the Presbyterian church. Mr. Lindsey was married in 1834, in Frankfort, to Isabella P. Weisiger, daughter of Daniel and Lucy Weisiger, who removed from Virginia to Frankfort in 1782. After the death of his first wife Mr. Lindsey married Mrs. Lucy (Benham) Applegate. His children born of the first marriage were Daniel W. Lindsey, John B. Lindsey, Mrs. Maria L. Thomas, Mrs. Lucy W. Blaney, Thomas N. Lindsey, Mrs. Mary B. Fitch and Joseph W. Lindsey. Lindsey Ruter Weisiger Benham Applegate Thomas Blaney Fitch Southgate = Campbell-KY Bracken-KY Ireland VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/franklin/lindsey.tn.txt