The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . ) ]\huniand of Closes and Abi-gail (Ogden) is also a great-grandson of Rev. DanielTaylor, the first i)astorof the First Presbyte-rian rimrch of Oiangein 1720-47. Stnart Lindsley at-tended the i)nlilicS(dio(ds. the Mell known]irivate school kept by the Misses Robinson, and the NeAvark Academy, and wasgradnated from the Scliool of Klines of Colnmbia College,New York City, abont 1S7(>. The first year after his grad-nation he was engage(1 in the private laboratory of Pro-fessor Charles A. Chandler as analytical chemist. He thent
The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . ) ]\huniand of Closes and Abi-gail (Ogden) is also a great-grandson of Rev. DanielTaylor, the first i)astorof the First Presbyte-rian rimrch of Oiangein 1720-47. Stnart Lindsley at-tended the i)nlilicS(dio(ds. the Mell known]irivate school kept by the Misses Robinson, and the NeAvark Academy, and wasgradnated from the Scliool of Klines of Colnmbia College,New York City, abont 1S7(>. The first year after his grad-nation he was engage(1 in the private laboratory of Pro-fessor Charles A. Chandler as analytical chemist. He thentook up civil engineering, and for the next five years wasengineer of the Dundee ^yater Power and Land Comjiany,having charge of the comi)anys works at Passaic, X. a portion of the time he was also City Engineer ofPassaic City and engaged in ])rivat( work in the line ofhis profession. In 1873, there being a general business de-pression in the East, he accepted an offer to go as chemistto the Union Consolidated .Mining Com|)any, an GEOK(iK 430 THE PASSAIC VALLEY copper mining and smelting company located at Duck-town, Tenu. In 1879 be went to Leadville, Col., and en-gaged as assayer Avith the Gage Hageman Smelting Com-pany, proprietors of one of the early silver lead smeltingworks of that place. Subsequently he accepted a similarposition with the Chrysolite Silver Mining Company. He afterward successfullyliHed the positions ofsuperintendent andmetallurgist to the De-troit Copper MiningCompany at Clifton, Ari-zona, and to the RoyalGeorge Smelting Com-pany at Canyon City,Col., also doing other\\ork in the West in theline of expert mining,etc. Mr. Lindsley returnedEast in 1887 and soonengaged in business inhis native town. Heformed a partnershipwith Eobert Wright,and the firm, known asWright & Lindsley, es-tablished an extensive stone quarry and crushing worksat the Great Notch in Passaic County for the production ofbroken stone for roads and other
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