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Fliess, William Maynard – Flint, Wallace Benjamin

Fliess, William Maynard

capitalist, was born Sept. 7, 1833, in Prussia.` He was one of the first capitalists to open mines in Utah. He is president of the California Mining and Water company; the Hollywood Distillery company; and of the St. Joseph and Kansas railroad.

Flint, Abel

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 6, 1765, in Windham, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman of Hartford, who published a Geometry and Trigonometry, with a Treatise on Surveying. He died March 7, 1825, in Hartford, Conn.

Flint, Albert Stowell

astronomer, was born Sept. 12, 1853, in Salem, Mass. He has been computer of the United States transit of Venus commission at Washington, D. C.; and is now assistant astronomer at the Washburn Observatory of the university of Wisconsin.

Flint, Austin

physician, author, was born March 28, 1836, in Northampton, Mass. He is an eminent physician of New York city, connected with several hospitals and medical colleges, and is the author of Text-Book of Human Physiology; Manual of Chemical Examinations of Urine in Disease; Physiological Effects of Severe and Protracted Muscular Exercise; The Source of Muscular Power; and Physiology of Man.

Flint, Charles Louis

author, was born May 8, 1824, in Middleton, Mass.

He was secretary of the Massachusetts board of agriculture in 1853-81, and one of the founders of the Massachusetts Agricultural college. He is the author of The Agriculture of Massachusetts; Grass and Forage Plants; Milch Cows and Dairy Farming; and Manual of Agriculture.

Flint, David Boardman

merchant, was born May 1, 1816, in Troy, N. H. He is the founder of the well known firm of Flint and Hall, dealers in lumber. He built the Channing Chapel of Winter Harbor, Maine, and deeded it to the American Unitarian association.

Flint, Henry

educator, author, was born in 1675, in Dorchester, Mass. He was appointed a fellow of Harvard college in 1700, and in 1705-54 was a tutor there. He died Feb. 13, 1760.

Flint, Henry Martyn

journalist, author, was born March 24, 1829, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a journalist of Chicago, and the author of Life of Stephen A. Douglas; History and Statistics of United States Railroads; and Mexico Under Maximilian. He died Dec. 12, 1868, in Camden, N. J.

Flint, Jacob

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1767, in Reading, Mass. He published a history of Cohasset in the Massachusetts historical collection, and two discourses on the history of Cohasset.

He died Oct. 11, 1835, in Marshfield, Mass.

Flint, Joshua Barker

educator, surgeon, author, was born Oct. 13, 1801, in Cohasset, Mass. He was a surgeon of Boston and subsequently of Louisville, where he was professor of surgery in the Kentucky school of medicine from 1849 till his death. He published The Practice of Medicine. He died March 19, 1864, in Louisville, Ky.

Flint, Micah P

lawyer, poet, was born in 1807, in Lunenburg, Mass. He was the author of The Hunter, and Other Poems. He died in 1830.

Flint, Wallace Benjamin

shipping merchant, was born Oct. 10, 1863, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1888 he was admitted to partnership by his father in the firm of Flint and Co., commission merchants, of which he is yet a member. He has been the consul of Uruguay in New York.