The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 237

GUS LINDEMAN.

Prominent among the energetic, farsighted and successful business men of
Ellensburg is Gus Lindeman, who is engaged in the conduct of a lumberyard.
Alert and energetic, he meets the modern demands of trade and his enterprise is
bringing to him gratifying prosperity. He was born in Atlantic, Cass county,
Iowa, March 31, 1877, a son of William and Catherine Lindeman, both of whom
passed away in Atlantic, Iowa. The father was well known there as a farmer and
as a real estate broker.

Gus Lindeman acquired a public school education while spending his youthful days
under the parental roof and in young manhood became identified with the lumber
trade, embarking in the business in Cumberland, Iowa. He afterward removed to
Platte, South Dakota, where he was again known as a lumber merchant, carrying on
business at that place from 1900 until 1910. In the latter year he removed to
the northwest, coming to Ellensburg as manager of a branch yard for the Crab
Creek Lumber Company. In 1913 he purchased this business, which he reorganized
under the name of the Lindeman Lumber Company, but in 1914 sold out to the Rovig
Lumber Company and became vice president, one of the trustees and the local
manager. This company has five lumberyards and two sash and door factories, the
factories being located in Seattle, while the lumberyards are in Yakima and
Kittitas counties. The company also owns a big gravel pit at Ellensburg and
handles coal, wood, paints, building hardware, brick and cement, in addition to
all kinds of lumber. Their business has reached extensive proportions and as
local manager at Ellensburg. Mr. Lindeman is contributing in substantial measure
to the continued success of the undertaking.

In December, 1899, Mr. Lindeman was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Kelly,
of Walnut, Iowa, a daughter of Anthony and Mary Kelly. They had one child,
Mildred, who died in 1905 at the age of eighteen months.

In politics Mr. Lindeman is a democrat, giving stalwart support to the party.
Fraternally he is connected with the Elks lodge of Ellensburg. His success in a
business way is attributable in large measure to the fact that he has always
continued in the line in which he embarked in early manhood, never attempting
to dissipate his energies over a broad field. His concentration of purpose, his
close application and his determination have been elements in his continued
advancement and he is today numbered among the representative business men of
his adopted city.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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