Adrian Van Sinderen Lindsley

Lindsley started his career as a lawyer.^[3] He later became President of the Mt Olivet Cemetery Company, which established the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville.^[1] He also served as President of the Nashville and Lebanon Turnpike Company, which built a toll road from Nashville to Lebanon, Tennessee.^[1] He also served as the Secretary of the Board of Trust of his alma mater, the University of Nashville, from 1839 to 1885.^[3]

Lindsley was a Republican and supported the Union.^[2] He served as Nashville postmaster from 1862 to 1867, during the American Civil War of 1861–1865.^[1][2] In a letter to Governor Andrew Johnson (1808–1875) on April 22, 1862, he blamed Reverend John Berry McFerrin (1807–1887), a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South for encouraging secessionist activities in Nashville, as opposed to more moderate Methodists like Reverend Holland Nimmons McTyeire (1824–1889), Reverend John B. Somers (1801–1876), Reverend James L. Houston (1806–1888) and Alexander Little Page Green (1806–1874).^[1]

After the war, Lindsley served as a member of the Tennessee Senate from 1868 to 1869.^[1] As Senator, he opposed the coercive policies towards former Confederates imposed by Governor William Gannaway Brownlow (1805–1877).^[2]

Lindsley married Eliza Trimble Lindsley (1819–1893). They had nine children.

Lindsley died in 1885 in Davidson County, Tennessee. He was buried at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, Tennessee.^[4]