Flint, Timothy
clergyman, author, was born July 11, 1780, in Reading, Mass.
He was a congregational clergyman of New England. His most important work in some respects, the Geography and History of the Mississippi Valley, materially advanced the settlement of that region.
His other works include Recollections of Ten Years in the Valley of the Mississippi; Indian Wars in the West; Memoir of Daniel Boone; Lectures on Natural History, etc. Fiction: Francis Berrian; Arthur Clenning; George Mason; and The Shoshonee Valley. He died Aug. 16, 1840, in Salem, Mass.