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Flagg, William Joseph, viniculturist, auwas bom in 1818 in Connecticut. He was the author of Three Seasons in European Vineyards; The Sulphur Cure; A Good Investment; Wall Street and the Woods; and Yoga, a work on the destiny of the soul. He died in 1898.

Flanagan, De Witt Clinton, merchant, congressman, was born Dec. 28, 1870, in New York City. He was educated at Columbia college of New York City. He pursued a commercial career; and was interested in a number of industrial enterprises. In 1902 he was elected a representative

Flagg, Wilson, naturalist, author, was born Nov. 5, 1805, in Beverly, Mass. In 1844-48 he was employed in the Boston customs house; and in 1856 moved to Cambridge, Mass. He was the author of Studies in the Field and Forest; Woods and ByWays of New England; Halcyon Days; A

from New York to the fifty-seventh congress as a democrat to fill a vacancy.

thor,

Year Among the Trees; and the Birds.

He

died

May

6,

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Year Among North born 1863

and of the senate in 1855-56. He was an elector in 1857; and a member of the state constitutional conventions of 1866 and 1868. In 1869-75 he was a representative to the forty-first, forty-second and forty-third con-

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gresses

lieu-

and was United States senator in 1870-75. He died Sept. 20, 1887, in Long View, Texas. Flanagan, John, sculptor, artist, was born He designed the tinted in Newark, N.J. marble relief Aphrodite in the Knickerbocker

1S84, in

Cambridge, Mass. Flagler, Daniel Webster, soldier, was June 24, 1835, in Lockport, N.Y. In he was promoted captain; and at the of the war he received the brevet of tenant-colonel. He was made major in

1874

and lieutenant-colonel in 1881. He was in command of the Bock Island arsenal from 1871 until 1886, and had charge of its conIn 1877 the government pubstruction. lished at Washington his history of the arsenal. He was promoted brigadier-genHe died March 29, 1899, at eral in 1891. .

Fort Monroe, Va. Flagler,

Henry

M.,

manufacturer, capiwas born in 1830

talist, railroad president,

in

Canandaigua, N.Y.He began his

busi-

ness career as a clerk in a country store; went to Saginaw, Mich.; and became a salt manufacturer. He was a partner in the oil refining firm of Rockfeller, Andrews and Flagler, who were succeeded by the Standard oil company. He has been continuously connected with the management of that corporation. He owns two hotels and about six hundred miles of railroad in Florida; and is president of the Florida east coast railroad company. Flagler, Thomas T., congressman. He resided at Lockport, N.Y.; and held several local offices. In 1853-57. he was a representative from New York to the thirty-third and thirty-fourth congresses. In 1860 he was a member of the New York house of

representatives.

was Flaig, Andrew, merchant, banker, born Aug. 24, 1852, in Germany. He was the first mayor of the city of Colby, Wis.; and has held high positions in the public He_ is a affairs of his county and state. successful merchant and banker; and interested in various business enterprises of his citj'.

Flanagan, Albert, educator, publisher, was June 10, 1854, in Butler county, Ohio. In 1876 he graduated from the high school of Fort Atkinson, Wis.; and in 1875-83 he taught in the district schools of Jefferson county. Wis. Since 1883 he has been publishing school books in Chicago, 111.; and is president of the A. Flanagan company.

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Flanagan, James Winright, lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 5, 1805, in Albemarle, Va. In 1845 he moved to Kentucky; and was a member of the state legislature in 1851-52;

elected lieutenant-governor in 1869



New York

City; designed three rerelief for the free public library of Newark, N.J.; and a pediment and two seated figures in marble for the Shelby county court house at Mem-

hotel of

liefs for

Yale college; a high

Tenn. Flanagan, Webster, farmer, lawyer, railroad president, statesman, was born Jan. 9, 1832, in Cloverport, Ky. Since 1843 he has been a resident of TexBB|^^K""^ as; and in 1851 was admitted to the prac^^^HP^ In 1860 tice of law. ^^ he was commissioned phis,

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In 1865 he was appoint«<i judge of the fifth judicial

district

of

Texas; and was

in a member of the

constitutional convenIn 1873 he was lieutenant-governor of Texas; and in 1871 and 1875 was a member of the Texas state senate. He was a member of the constitutional convention which helped to frame the present constiIn 1884-85 he was international tution. revenue collector for the fourth district of He has been a, delegate to seven -Texas. In 1890 he different national conventions. was candidate for governor of Texas; and in 1891-93 was collector of customs at Bl Paso, Texas. In 1876-80 he was presideni of the Henderson and Overton railroad company; and since 1898 has been collector of international revenue for the third district of Texas. Flanders, Alvin, journalist, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 2, 1825, in Hopkinton, N.H. He took part in establishing tion.