interred 11/29/1922
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William Lindsey invented the ammunition belt and his business in arms manufacturing earned his family a fortune. William did not have an easy start. As the United States Armed Forces wouldn’t accept his idea, he set out for England in 1889 and found her Ministry of War “as easy to storm as the kingdom of Heaven.” He slinked around the building finding the only approachable person the janitor, a one-legged veteran of the Crimean War.
One day when the guard was not there, William stormed the war lord’s office. As William was about to be thrown out, he declared that he could help the British win the Boer War. Interested, Lindsey was given one month to fulfill the given quota of 40,000 belts. With a job, he sent for his family to come over (he married Anne Hawthorne on 16 December 1884), and that Christmas he pinned a check from the British Government for 650,000 on the family Christmas tree.
The Boer War had made so much money for the Lindseys that William could retire in 1904 at age 42. The Lindseys moved back to Boston and William commissioned a Tudor-revival mansion on 225 Bay State Road in 1904. Construction began the following year and it was completed in 1914. Before the mansion was completed, the Lindseys lived at the residence of Mr. James Means’ house at 191 Bay State. The mansion was modeled after Athelhampton Hall in Dorchester, England.
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William Lindsey
Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915
birth: 12 August 1858 Fall River, Massachusetts
father: William Lindsey
mother: Maria
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William Lindsey invented the ammunition belt and his business in arms manufacturing earned his family a fortune. William did not have an easy start. As the United States Armed Forces wouldn’t accept his idea, he set out for England in 1889 and found her Ministry of War “as easy to storm as the kingdom of Heaven.” He slinked around the building finding the only approachable person the janitor, a one-legged veteran of the Crimean War.
One day when the guard was not there, William stormed the war lord’s office. As William was about to be thrown out, he declared that he could help the British win the Boer War. Interested, Lindsey was given one month to fulfill the given quota of 40,000 belts. With a job, he sent for his family to come over (he married Anne Hawthorne on 16 December 1884), and that Christmas he pinned a check from the British Government for 650,000 on the family Christmas tree.
The Boer War had made so much money for the Lindseys that William could retire in 1904 at age 42. The Lindseys moved back to Boston and William commissioned a Tudor-revival mansion on 225 Bay State Road in 1904. Construction began the following year and it was completed in 1914. Before the mansion was completed, the Lindseys lived at the residence of Mr. James Means’ house at 191 Bay State. The mansion was modeled after Athelhampton Hall in Dorchester, England.
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William Lindsey
Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915
birth: 12 August 1858 Fall River, Massachusetts
father: William Lindsey
mother: Maria
interred 11/29/1922
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William Lindsey invented the ammunition belt and his business in arms manufacturing earned his family a fortune. William did not have an easy start. As the United States Armed Forces wouldn’t accept his idea, he set out for England in 1889 and found her Ministry of War “as easy to storm as the kingdom of Heaven.” He slinked around the building finding the only approachable person the janitor, a one-legged veteran of the Crimean War.
One day when the guard was not there, William stormed the war lord’s office. As William was about to be thrown out, he declared that he could help the British win the Boer War. Interested, Lindsey was given one month to fulfill the given quota of 40,000 belts. With a job, he sent for his family to come over (he married Anne Hawthorne on 16 December 1884), and that Christmas he pinned a check from the British Government for 650,000 on the family Christmas tree.
The Boer War had made so much money for the Lindseys that William could retire in 1904 at age 42. The Lindseys moved back to Boston and William commissioned a Tudor-revival mansion on 225 Bay State Road in 1904. Construction began the following year and it was completed in 1914. Before the mansion was completed, the Lindseys lived at the residence of Mr. James Means’ house at 191 Bay State. The mansion was modeled after Athelhampton Hall in Dorchester, England.
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William Lindsey
Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915
birth: 12 August 1858 Fall River, Massachusetts
father: William Lindsey
mother: Maria
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William Lindsey invented the ammunition belt and his business in arms manufacturing earned his family a fortune. William did not have an easy start. As the United States Armed Forces wouldn’t accept his idea, he set out for England in 1889 and found her Ministry of War “as easy to storm as the kingdom of Heaven.” He slinked around the building finding the only approachable person the janitor, a one-legged veteran of the Crimean War.
One day when the guard was not there, William stormed the war lord’s office. As William was about to be thrown out, he declared that he could help the British win the Boer War. Interested, Lindsey was given one month to fulfill the given quota of 40,000 belts. With a job, he sent for his family to come over (he married Anne Hawthorne on 16 December 1884), and that Christmas he pinned a check from the British Government for 650,000 on the family Christmas tree.
The Boer War had made so much money for the Lindseys that William could retire in 1904 at age 42. The Lindseys moved back to Boston and William commissioned a Tudor-revival mansion on 225 Bay State Road in 1904. Construction began the following year and it was completed in 1914. Before the mansion was completed, the Lindseys lived at the residence of Mr. James Means’ house at 191 Bay State. The mansion was modeled after Athelhampton Hall in Dorchester, England.
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William Lindsey
Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915
birth: 12 August 1858 Fall River, Massachusetts
father: William Lindsey
mother: Maria
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