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Curtis Holbrook Lindley was born on December 14, 1850 in Marysville, California, United States, a descendant of John Lindley, an early settler in Guilford, Connecticut. Charles Lindley, his father, who studied at the Yale Law School, went to California in 1849, with his wife, Ann Eliza Downey, a native of Newtown, Connecticut.
In 1865-1866 young Lindley attended the Eagleswood Military Academy at Perth Amboy, New Jersey. From 1868 to 1870 he attended the San Francisco High School and spent the next two years at the University of California. Military instruction in the University was organized at this time, and Lindley became ranking captain of the cadets and the first commissioned officer.
At the age of seventeen, Lindley started out with companions on a prospecting expedition in Nevada. He ran a stationary engine on the Comstock Lode and just before practising law was stationary engineer at the Union Works. He firmly believed that every lawyer should take some sort of an engineering course, and himself studied mining engineering to aid him in the practice of mining law. He was admitted to practise in May 1872 and within a short time was appointed secretary of the California Code Commission, of which his father was a member.
He practised law in Stockton, being appointed to fill a vacancy as superior judge of Amador County. Failing of election to the same office, he moved to San Francisco, forming, in 1890, a partnership with Henry Eickhoff. While on the bench in Amador County, Lindley had occasion to decide several mining cases. He began to specialize in this branch of the law and ultimately published a treatise on the subject (A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands, 1897).
Before the war Lindley had delivered lectures on mining law at the Leland Stanford, Jr. , University and at the University of California. Among his Stanford students was Herbert Hoover, and from that contact a lasting friendship was formed. Upon Hoover's appointment as head of the Food Administration, he called Lindley to Washington as a "dollar-a-year" man to assist in organizing its legal department. Standing out from the infinite detail and perplexing problems of this organization which had sprung up on a moment's notice was the creation of the United States Grain Corporation. Lindley carefully drafted a proposed charter for this corporation and submitted it to President Wilson as a "tentative draft. " It was a matter of pride to him that the President penned out the words "tentative draft, " and, without delay, signed the proclamation making the charter effective. Despite the fact that his special field was mining law, he was able to turn at once to problems of commercial and constitutional law, and to matters concerning which there were no precedents, but his judgments proved eminently sound.
Finding the climate of Washington a severe drain upon his vitality, Lindley returned to California to build up his health and his practice. He died, as he had so often expressed a wish to die, "in the harness, " being stricken, an hour after the conclusion of a most trying mining case, with the illness that resulted in his death five days later.
Lindley was regarded as the preeminent mining lawyer. His greatest contribution to the legal and mining professions was "Lindley on Mines", a treatise on the law of mines, published in 1897. This work took rank as the leading text on the subject and became recognized as the most authoritative text on mining law in the United States. It gives evidence of painstaking research and philosophic insight far beyond that of the average legal textbook. Rossiter W. Raymond, the eminent mining engineer, refers to the three-volume third edition as "truly an imposing magnum opus. "
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On June 19, 1872, Lindley married Elizabeth Mendenhall.
