In 1865, he and countryman John Curr sailed from Glasgow to Boston to an apprenticeship with wholesaler Hogg, Brown and Taylor.

Also at Hogg, Brown and Taylor, Lindsay and Curr also met Yankee farmer Rufus Sibley, a fellow clerk.

When their newest building burned in 1904, although all store records were destroyed, loyal customers paid their bills and their local insurance agent made funds available to them immediately so that they could begin anew.

[4][5][6] Rowallan in Ormond Beach was built in 1913 to serve as the winter residence for Alexander Millar Lindsay.

Also on the property was a cottage known as Sun Patch named for a favorite Lindsay granddaughter, Sunny Kame.

Other residences on John Anderson Highway near Rowallan were built by Scotsmen with similar histories to that of Lindsay.

When Lindsay died in 1920, his widow caused a memorial fountain to be constructed on the river side of the road.

Adults attended functions at the old Ormond Beach Hotel, went shooting and rode horseback.

According to content about the Ormond Beach Historical Trail written by Orlando historian Steve Rajtar, Rowallen was later owned by Englishman Leonard Martin, and then Harold and Eileen Butts.

Eileen Butts was added to the state list of prominent Floridians for her work in the area including the creation of Tomoka State Park, the building of the Ormond Memorial Art Gallery and the preservation of John D. Rockefeller's Ormond Beach home The Casements.

The plaque listing her as a great Floridian form the state's 2000 program is on the front of Rowallen.