Fliess, William Maynard – Florence, William Jermyn
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 Oct. 20, 1812, in Petersham, Mass. He was a distinguished physician of New York city who held professorships in several New York medical colleges, and was the author of Practice of Medicine; Continued Fever; Chronic Pleurisy; Dysentery; Physical Explanation and Diagnosis of Diseases of the Respiratory Organs; Diseases of the Heart; Essays on Conservative Medicine; Phthisis; Clinical Medicine; Manual of Auscultation and Percussion: Medical Ethics and Etiquette; and Medicine of the Future. He died March 13, 1886, in New York city.
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, Charles Ranlett
merchant, was born Jan. 24, 1850, in Thomaston, Maine. In 1871 he organized the firm of Gilchrist, Flint and Company, shipchandlers; and in 1872 established the firm of W. R. Grace and Company, transacting general shipping and commission business with the west coast of South America, principally Peru. In 1876 he was appointa ed consul in New York for the republic of Chili; and in 1880 he became president of the United States Electric Lighting company. In 1876 he established a business in Peru; and in 1884 established a large rubber business on the Amazon. In 1885 he entered the firm of Flint and Company, composed of his father, Benjamin Flint; and his brother, Wallace Benjamin Flint; and of this firm he is now senior member.
He is a director of several railroad and steamship companies, and of various financial institutions; and was recently elected one of the council of the university of the city of New York.
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, 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.
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.
Flippin, Manlius T
lawyer, legislator, jurist, poet, was born July 29, 1841, in Monroe county, Ky. After receiving his education he taught school for eight years; and was admitted to the bar in 1865. He has served several sessions as a republican member of the Kentucky state legislature. In 1874 he was elected judge of the county court for four years; received the re-election in 1878, and again in 1886. He has practiced law with success at Tompkinsville, the county seat of his native county; and has held various positions of public trust in his county and state. He is the author of a volume entitled Poems and Addresses, published by the American Publishers' association of Chicago, Ill.; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Flitcraft, Allen J
educator, journalist, author, was born May 14, 1854, in Woodstown, N. J. For many years he was engaged in educational work, and became superintendent of public schools of Doylestown, Pa. In 1878 he was made a special agent of the Provident Life and Trust company, and traveled in its interests throughout the eastern states. He has ever since been identified with insurance business, and in 1888 published a work on insurance which became very popular; and subsequently issued a valuable work entitled Life Insurance Manual, which has run through many editions; and he has since published other works on insurance lines. He is the editor and owner of The Life Insurance Courant, one of the leading publications of its kind.
Flohr, George Daniel
clergyman, was born in 1759, in Germany. He was licensed to preach by the synod of Pennsylvania, and immediately engaged in missionary service in southwestern Virginia. He died in 1826, in Wytheville, Va.
Flood, Henry Delaware
lawyer, state senator, was born Sept. 2, 1865, in Appomattox, Va. He received the rudiments of his education in the schools of Appomattox and Richmond; and graduated from the Washington and Lee university, and the university of Virginia. In 1887-91 he served as a member of the Virginia house of delegates; and in 1891 was elected a member of the state senate; and subsequently was the democratic nominee for congress, but was defeated by a majority of only forty-eight. He has attained success as an able lawyer of his native city; and has served with distinction as commonwealth attorney of his county.
Flood, James Clair
capitalist, was born in 1825, in Ireland. He made money by speculating in mining stock, and several years later formed a partnership with James G. Fair and John W. Mackay, who were then young miners. Flood and O'Brien agreed to furnish money for tools and outfit, while Fair and Mackay prospected in the Sierras. The result was the discovery of the Comstock lode, which made them four of the wealthiest men in the world. They subsequently established the Nevada bank in San Francisco. He died Feb. 21, 1888, in Germany.
Flood, Thomas S
business man, congressman, was born April 12, 1844, in Lodi, N. Y. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Flook, Jacob
clergyman, poet, was born April 18, 1855, in England. He has filled pastorates in the congregational churches at New Haven, Mich.; Atlanta, Ga.; Cambridge, Ill.; and Indianola, Neb.
He is the author of a number of poems.
Florence, Elias
congressman, was born in Virginia. He having taken up his residence in Ohio, was elected a representative in congress from 1843 to 1845.
Florence, Thomas Birch
journalist, congressman, was born Jan. 26, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1850 he was elected to congress, where he served continuously until 1861. He established and edited, in Washington, a Sunday paper called the Gazette. He died July 3, 1875, in Washington, D. C.
Florence, William Jermyn
actor, was born July 26, 1831, in Albany, N. Y. He made his first appearance in Richmond in 1849, as Peter in The Stranger, and soon acquired distinction as a versatile comic actor. He died Nov. 19, 1891, in Philadelphia, Pa.