LINDSEY, BENJAMIN BARR ), American judge, was born at Jackson, Tenn., on Nov. 25, 1869. He was educated in the public schools and attended Notre Dame (Indiana) university and the South-western Baptist university, Jackson, Tennessee. At the age of 16 he began to earn his livelihood in Denver, continuing his studies in a law office. He was admitted to the Colorado bar in 1894. In Jan. 1899 he was appointed public guardian and administrator of Denver. He was instru mental in securing the passage of the Colorado juvenile court law of April 12, 1899, which gradually changed the whole system of dealing with juvenile offenders in Denver, the change including, the establishment of a juvenile court conducted solely in the interest of children. He was appointed judge of that court in Dec. 1900, to which he has since been elected for ten consecutive terms. Because of his championship of juvenile courts, he earned for himself the name of "the father of the juvenile court." He
was also the author of the first parental laws in the United States making the juvenile court a parental and family court as well, and also of the "chancery court procedure" in dealing with adult offenders. He wrote Problems of the Children (1903) ; The Beast (with Harvey O'Higgins) Ow 0) ; Children in Bondage (with George Creel) (1914) ; Pan-Germanism in America (1919); The Doughboy's Religion (with Harvey O'Higgins) (1920) ; The Re volt of Modern Youth (with Wainwright Evans) (1925) ; Child hood, Crime, and the Movies (1926) ; The Companionate Mar riage (with Wainwright Evans) (1927) ; and a large number of brochures dealing with problems of juvenile delinquency, domestic relations and crime. (See CHILDREN'S COURTS.)