LINDSAY FAMILY

The eldest of twelve children of Rev. Ephraim Samuel and Frances Elizabeth (Austen) Frazee, Esther Catharine (Frazee) Lindsay (CFL) was born in Fayette County, Indiana, on February 20, 1848. After attending Fayetteville Academy (1857-61), CFL graduated in 1869 as valedictorian from Glendale (Ohio) Female College, and taught there and at Hocker Female College in Lexington, Ky. In June 1875, accompanied by Eudora Lindsay, a friend and fellow teacher at Hocker College, and her brother, Vachel Thomas Lindsay (VTL), a physician from Springfield, Ill., CFL left for a year of travel and study in Europe.

Vachel Thomas Lindsay (VTL) was born in Napoleon, Ky., on August 31, 1843, the son of Martha (Cave) and Nicholas Lindsay, an architect and builder. Educated in public schools in Kentucky, he taught for a time before graduating in 1869 from Miami Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio. He practiced medicine in Sangamon County, Ill., and in 1871 married Olive W. Crouch ; she died the same year.

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