Lang, H. O., ed.  "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description 
of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and 
Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal 
Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers."  Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and 
Job Printer, 1885.  p. 611.

LINDSAY APPLEGATE

     Born in Henry County, Kentucky, September 18, 1808; his family settled near
St. Louis, Missouri, in 1820, and about three years later he joined General
Ashby's fur company, and participated in an expedition into the country of the
hostile Indians.  Returning to St. Louis he was married in 1831 to Elizabeth
Miller.  He served in the Black Hawk war.  Set out for Oregon in May, 1843, and
settled in Polk County.  The expedition of the above year was probably, the most
important of all the movements of that sort whose direction was to this State,
and Lindsay Applegate, with his brothers, Charles and Jesse, were the moving
spirits therein.  Its details are elsewhere set forth.  In 1844 Lindsay
Applegate served as a member of the first organized company of soldiers designed
to protect the infant settlements from the invasion of hostile Indians.  In 1846
he, with Jesse Applegate, sought out the Southern Immigrant Route, by which, in
that year, a considerable number of pioneers entered this State.  In 1848 he
went to California by land, and returned during the same year by water.  In 1850
he joined General Lane in pursuit of the deserting regulars from Vancouver.  In
the same year he served as special Indian agent under Gen. Palmer.  Commanded,
in 1853, a company of volunteers who enlisted to combat the Rogue River tribes,
but was not in action.  In 1859 he purchased the toll road leading from Northern
California to Southern Oregon, and went to reside on the Siskiyou Mountains.  In
1861 he was chosen captain of a volunteer company, whose object was to protect
incoming immigrants, and set out to patrol the southern route from Klamath
eastward.  Was a member of the Legislature of Oregon in 1862, and was likewise
special Indian agent.  Served at Klamath, as such, until 1869.  Resides at
Ashland, Jackson County.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.