"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
CLAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN CO., INDIANA
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DR. CHAMBERS M. LINDLEY was born in Crawford County, Ill., on January 1,
1832. His father came from North Carolina, and settled in Orange County,
Ind., while the country was yet a wilderness and inhabited by the Indians.
Shortly afterward, he moved to Crawford County, near Huntsville, Ill., and
the country being wild and unsettled, he with all the early settlers,
endured many hardships and privations. He was a member of the Friends'
Church, and this ten children were brought up under its influence. He died
in 1837. Chambers M., the subject of this sketch, was reared on a farm. At
the age of fifteen, he lost an arm by a runaway horse. After a season at
the pioneer schools, he came to Parke County, Ind., and attended the
Bloomingdale School, conducted by the Friends. Then he taught for a period
of three years. He then began the study of medicine, and attended the
medical colleges at Ann Arbor, Mich., and Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from
the latter institution in 1860. He then began the practice of medicine at
Waverly, Morgan County, where he continued in his profession ten years.
Failing in health, he retired to a farm, where he remained six years;
thence came to Brooklyn, where for twelve years he has been actively engaged
in the practice of medicine and surgery. In May, 1856, he was married to
Elizabeth J. Province, of Pleasureville, Ky. She has borne him two
children--Ella and Minnie. The Doctor and wife are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. He is also a member of the Brooklyn Lodge, No. 471, A. F.
& A. M. As a farmer, he owns 260 acres of well-improved land. The Doctor
has a fine medical library, as well as the works of nearly all the standard
authors on miscellaneous subjects.
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