The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Center Township, page 528
G. Dallas Lind, M.D., Professor of Natural Sciences and Drawing in the Central Normal College at Danville, was born near Carlisle, Cumberland Co, Pa., Oct. 30, 1847. When about two years old his parents, Samuel and Catharine (Myers) Lind, moved to Clarke County, Ohio, where he was reared on a farm until he reached maturity. He attended the common schools till he was twenty years of age, and in 1867 attended a Normal School at New Carlisle, Ohio, about six months, after which he taught a country school near his home till 1869. He then attended the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he graduated in the scientific course in the class of 1870, after which he taught school and read medicine one year, and in the winter of 1871-'72 he took a course of lectures in the Physio-Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio. In the spring of 1873 he located at Clinton, Mo., where he practiced medicine six months, after which he practiced in Hamilton, Iowa, until the fall of 1879, when he was engaged as Professor of Natural Sciences at Danville. In March, 1883, after taking a partial course of lectures in Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, he received the degree of M.D. In the spring of 1884 he began to teach drawing as well as the sciences in the Central Normal College. He is the author of the following works: "Method of Teaching in Country Schools," "Normal Outlines," "Easy Experiments," "Blank Speller," "Teacher's and Student's Library," and "Man."