Dr.  Newton Harvey Lindsey

 Newton Harvey Lindsey was born at Anniston, Alabama on January 20, 1870, one of eight children, who were orphaned early.

Newton and his brother, John, worked for the railroad, and became a locomotive engineer.  He attended night school, and later attended Memphis Medical College were he graduated in 1898.

His first practice was in St. Joe, Texas.  While there he married Kathleen Giddens of Silvels Bend.  Their children were Beatrice and Paul.  Beatrice married Warren Gibson Sr., Paul was an attorney in Pauls Valley and Ray Harvey, who was a doctor also.

Newton and Kathleen moved to Elmore City in 1899 and then in 1905 they relocated to Pauls Valley where he formed a partnership with Dr. James R. Calloway who had also moved to Pauls Valley from Elmore City.  This partnership later included Dr. Galvin Johnson.

Dr. Calloway, Dr. Lindsey and Dr. Johnson established the first hospital in Pauls Valley in 1916 in a rented space and ran it under the name of the Pauls Valley Sanitorium, with Maude Low as it's first superintendent.  They later relocated the hospital to what was known as the Pratt boarding house at 500 N. Willow, which is now the site of the Stufflebean Funeral home.  The hospital was moved again in 1928 to rooms over the Pauls Valley National Bank.

Newton's son, Ray Harvey served his internship at Scott and White Hosptial at Temple, Texas and then came back to Pauls Valley in 1930 to work with his father in the operation of the Sanitorium.

Dr. Newton Harvey Lindsey died in 1934.  Mrs. Lindsey died in 1952.  Dr. Lindsey was a Baptist and a Mason and an honorary member of the American College of Surgeons.