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THE NATIONAL NURSEKYHAN 
John Van Lindloy. ])r()|)rietor of the Pomona Hill Nnr- 
seri('s. (Ireenshoro. N. (I. lias just iiresented that city 
with a beautiful forty acre tract of woody land which 
will h(‘ utilized as paik and playgrounds. 
The park is to hear the name of the donor and will he 
an (‘vei'lasting monument to his memory. 
Mr. Lindley is of old English stock, his ancestors com¬ 
ing to North Carolina from England hy the way of Ire¬ 
land and Pennsylvania. 
Thomas Lindley, his father’s gi'andfather. with his 
Judith Henly, died, leaving him a boy of only eight years 
of age. His father. Joshua Lindley, was a fruit grower 
and nurseryman, and young John grew np on the fruit 
farm, and all his life has been practically (mgaged in 
rearing trees, and has thus been enabled to give to this 
vocation the exjierience garnered through youth and ma¬ 
tured years. This doubtless has been the foundation of 
his remarkable success in a sphere where many others 
have failed. Though slight in frame and delicate in ap- 
peai-ance as a boy. he had stamina, and tlu' manual laboi' 
John Van Lindletj 
wife. Sarah Evans, who w^as of Welch descent, was the 
first of the family to come to North Carolina, settling here 
in 1748, and although Mr. Lindley is not a native of this 
State, having been born in Monrovia, Morgan County. 
Indiana. November b. 1838. the accident of birth was 
speedily nnnedied by his return w ith his parents, when 
only three years old to his father’s former home in 
Cliatham County, where a few years later his mother, 
of his farm life tended to strengthen his constitution. Of 
his proficiency as a workman in those early days he was 
very proud, and he still finds pleasure in recalling that 
he split 800 rails the last day he used a maul. 
Joshua Lindley with his family moved from Chatham 
to New Carden in Guilford County, in 1851, and coii- 
tiiiued there the nursery business. 
Close application to his occupations left him little op- 
