Francis Vinton Lindley (1911 - 1983)

Ancestors

Died May 1983 at age 72 in New York, New York, USA

Biography

A Yale honor grad. Son of Charles A. Lindley and Edith Greene. Husband of Grace Bigelow Cook. In 1957 they had three children ages 1, 6, 9.

Sources

• The Free Lance-Star, Apr 16, 1957 "Mother Sold Blood to Pay for Groceries"
• http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/Montauk/301179/Family-fights-to-keep-last-bit-of-a-legacy-Seeks-new-lease-for-Montauk-blockhouse
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Lindley_House
• http://easthamptonstar.com/News/20141002/End-Lease-Was-End-Era
• The Booklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) June 29, 1933

Miss Grace Bigelow Cook Wed To Francis Vinton Lindley In Kingston Church Yesterday

Miss Grace Bigelow Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cook of Heathcote Farm, Kingston, N. J., and Francis Vinton Lindley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Allen Lindley of 156 E. 82d St., Manhattan, were married yesterday afternoon in the Kingston Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School. A reception followed in the garden of Heathcote Farm.

Miss Cook wore a gown of white mousseline de soie, a long tulle veil, and carried white roses and sweet peas in a bouquet. Miss Helenka Adamowska of Manhattan was maid of honor and wore a blue mousseline de soie gown and carried delphinium and African daisies in an arm bouquet. The bridesmaids, Miss Anne Mitchell of Princeton and Miss Lilian Swann of Manhattan, wore yellow mousseline de soie gowns and little Jane Cook, sister of the bride, as flower girl, also wore a yellow mousseline de soie frock. They all carried bouquets like that carried by Miss Adamowska. The church was decorated wjth honey-Buckle and wild daisies.

Garrard W. Glenn of Charlottesville, Va., was best man and the ushers were Thomas P. and Peter G. Cook, brothers of the bride; Ledyard Lindley, cousin of the bridegroom; Joseph Alsop Jr., Tracy Barnes, Marshall Dodge Jr., Montgomery Hare, Fuller Potter Jr., Oren Root Jr., St. John Smith Jr. and Benjamin Bacon.

The wedding is of particular local Interest as the bride is a grand-niece of Poultney Bigelow, well known here. She is a granddaughter of Mrs. Charles Edward Tracy and great-granddaughter of the late John Bigelow, American Ambassador to France during Lincoln's administration. She attended Miss Chaplin's School, Miss Fine's School and has been studying at the David Mannes Music School in Manhattan.

Mr. Lindley is a grandson of the late Gen. Francis Vinton Greene and Mrs. Greene and a nephew of the late Warwick Greene. he is a graduate of Groton and of Yale, where he was chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine. Mr. Lindley is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Zeta Psi, Skull and Bones, the Elizabethan Club at Yale, and the St. Nicholas Club of New York.

• "The East Hampton Star" Jun 9, 1983: Obituary: Francis V. Lindley

Francis Vinton Lindley, a lontime visitor to Montauk, died unexpectedly, of a heart attack, on May 28 in New York City. He was 72.

Mr. Lindley, who lived at 70 West 68th Street in Manhattan, had been employed for the past 20 years at the nearby headquarters of the American Red Cross. Earlier he had worked as a guidance counselor fo distrubed youth and in magazine publishing and the law.

Mr. Lindley spent summers in Southampton as a child and first came to Montauk in the 1930s during his second marriage, to Eleanor Tweed, staying at the Ditch Plain residence of his father-in-law, the Wall Street lawyer Harrison Tweed. In 1950 he and his third wife, Hilda, who he had met whil both worked at Tide, and advertising trade magaine, bought and renovated the former Army blockhouse at Indian Field in Montauk where Mrs. Lindley, who died in 1980, and their three children continued to spend summers. Each of Mr. Lindley's marriages ended in divorce. The first was to Grace Cook. In recent years he spent his vacation in Montauk and at the Wanscott house of his daughter, Diana.

He was born in New York City on Feb. 4, 1911, the son of Charles Allen and Edith Greene Lindley, and was graduated from St. Bernard's School there, the Groton School in Groton, Mass., and Yale University in New Haven, Conn., where he was valedictorian of the class of '33. He later attended New York University and St. John's University in New York City and received a doctor of jurisprudence degree. he was an avid tennis player.

Mr. Lindley is survived by his daughter and by two sons, John, of Manhattan and Montauk, and Daniel, of Santa Cruz, Cal., and Montauk. He was cremated, and a burial service will be held in July at his family's plot in New Canaan, Conn., Cemetery. Memorial contributions to the Fund for Animals in New York City have been suggested.