HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, INDIANA: FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT (Chicago: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1884), p. 611. James E. Lindley was born in Orange County, May 31, 1834, the son of Owen and Mary (Wilson) Lindley, and is a farmer by occupation. Appropriate mention of his parents occurs elsewhere in this volume. He has been successful in his business and now owns a farm of 290 acres with good improvements. His youth was spent on a farm where he learned all the methods of successful agriculture and that industry and honesty is the best policy. His education is limited but sufficient for business. January 26, 1860, he married Mary E., daughter of James and Nancy Kearby (consider Kirby a spelling variant). This lady was born in Morgan County, Ind., in March 1841, and has presented her husband with a family of which seven are living, as follows: Hannibal B., William J., Alfaretta, Junietta, Beatrice, Ida O. and James M. Mr. Lindley is a Republican and one of the best citizens in the county.