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Steven E Lindsey
Brothers Marvin and Steven Lindsey, born in 1940 and 1943 respectively, are the sixth generation of Lindseys to call Miami County, Kansas home. Their ancestors began to settle in the area as early ...view moreBrothers Marvin and Steven Lindsey, born in 1940 and 1943 respectively, are the sixth generation of Lindseys to call Miami County, Kansas home. Their ancestors began to settle in the area as early as 1855 and continued following the Civil War arriving from Texas, Missouri, Kentucky, Illinois and Michigan. All settled within a few miles of one another, and neighbors soon became friends through church, school and shared farm work.
During Marvin and Steven’s childhood and youth in the 1940s and 50s, grandparents and a great grandfather were still living nearby, so the boys were able to observe, hear and learn a great deal about early pioneer life on the plains directly from participants. Their parents had purchased the adjacent farms of their grandparents, so the boys grew up in the same house and farmed the same land as their great grandparents.
Both parents worked in nearby towns, so the boys did most of the farming learning many lifelong skills. It was an ideal childhood and neither would change a thing. But life on the farm was changing immensely and opportunities were limited so both, being encouraged by their mother who was a teacher, left for college following high school. Marvin obtained a master’s in engineering and pursued a career in telecommunications which has taken him all over the world. Today he is retired and lives in Denver, Colorado. Steven obtained a master’s in forestry and after working a number of years in that field built a multi-agency independent insurance business in central Kansas while breeding and raising Arabian horses. Today he is semi-retired and resides on a small farm near Independence, Kansas.view less
Books by Steven E Lindsey
THE LINDSEYS – KANSAS PIONEERS 1855 – 2024: A History of the Lindsey Family of southeast Miami County and northeast Linn County, Kansas