Background
Lindquist was born in Marinette, Wisconsin on September 27, 1869.
Lindquist was born in Marinette, Wisconsin on September 27, 1869.
Attended the common schools.
In 1904 Francis engaged in the mail-order clothing and manufacturing business; moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1915 and became president of the Canada Mills Co., of New York and Michigan. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915), but was not a candidate for renomination in 1914. He resumed the mail-order business in Grand Rapids.
After the First World War Francis returned to Greenville, Michigan, and supervised a correspondence-school course for sales people. He was later an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress.