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FLINQ, Fred Morrow, educator, was born in Portland, Maine, Nov. 4, 1860; son of Charles H. and Cynthia E. (Davis) Fling. He was gradu- ated from Portland high school in 1879; from Bowdoin college in 1883, and from the University of Leipzig iu 1890. He vvas a teacher in the Biddeford, Maine, high school, 1883-88, and in 1891 became professor of European history iu the University of Nebraska. He studied four months in Paris, 1894, and spent five months in 1897 in historical research, preparatoiy to publishing a life of Mirabeau. He was elected a member of the American historical association in 1890; founded in 1890 the association of Nebraska teachers of hi-story and was elected a member of La societfi de I'histoire de la rfivolution fran^aise iu 1896. He was married in 1893 to Helene A. Dresser, L'niversit}- of Minnesota, 1893, Univer- sity of Nebraska, A.M., 1898. His publications preceding his " Life of Mu-abeau" and introduc- toiy to it include: Jlirabeaii and the French Consti- tution (1891) ; Mirabeau' s Speech of May 20, 1790 (1890) ; Mirabeau an Opponent of AI)so!utism (1894) ; Mirabeau a Mctim of the Lcttre de Cachet (1897); and Mirabeau and Colonne in 1785 (1897). He also published: Studies in European History (1897) ; Studies in Greek and Soman History (1898) ; and edited the European history section in the North- vrstern Minilhhj.

FLINT, Austin, physician, was born inPeter.s- ham, Mass., Oct. 20, 1812; son of Dr. Josepli Henshaw Flint; grandson of Dr. Austin Flint, Leicester, Mass., who was surgeon in the Revo- lutionary army ; great-grandson of Dr. Edward Flint of Shrewsbury, Mass. ; and a direct descend- ant from Thomas Flint, who came to America from Matlock, Derbyshire, England, and settled in Concord, Mass., in 1635. His father was a well known practitioner and a resident of North- ampton and afterward of Springfield, Mass. After a partial collegiate course at Harvard and at Amherst, he was graduated in medicine at Harvard in 1833. He practised in Boston and at Northampton, Mass., and in 1836 established himself at Buffalo, N.Y. He was at Chicago as professor of the institutes and practice of medi- cine in Rush medical college in 1844. He foimded the Buffalo Medical Journal and conducted it for ten years, 1846-56. With Drs. White and Ham- ilton he founded the Buffalo medical college in 1847, where he was professor of the principles and practice of medicine, 1847-52. He was j^ro- fessor of the theory and practice of medicine in the University of Louisville, 1853-56; professor of pathology and clinical medicine in the Buffalo medical college, 1856-59, professor of clinical medicine in the New Orleans school of medicine, and visiting physician in the Charity hospital there during the winters of 1858-59, 1859-61), and

1860-61. • He established himself in New York city in 1859 and in 1861 was aijpointed physician to Bellevue hospital. He was professor of the principles and practice of medicine and of clini- cal medicine iu the Bellevue Hospital medical college, of which he was one of the founders, in 1861. He was also professor of pathology and practical medicine in the Long Island college hosjjital, 1861-68. In 1873 he was elected presi- dent of the New York academy of medicine and was a member of the leading medical and scien- tific societies of America and corresponding member of various European medical and scien- tific organizations. He was a delegate to the International medical congress at Philadelijhia in 1876, delivered befoi-e the congress an address on " Medicine," and was elected to preside over the congress of 1877. He was a member of the American philosophical society and was presi- dent of the American medical association, 1883. He was married in 1835 to Annie, daughter of N. W. Skillings of Boston, Mass. He received from Yale the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1881. His contributions to medical literature include articles in journals, magazines and transactions, and a number of standard medical books, includ- ing: Treatise -upon the Principles and Practice of Medicine (1866, 6th ed., 1886) ; Phthisis, etc. (1875) ; and .1 Mininal of Auscultation and iV)-c?(ssfoJi(1876). He died in New York city, March 13, 1886.

FLINT, Austin, physician, was born in North- ampton, Mass. , March 28, 1836 ; son of Dr. Austirr and Annie (Skillings) Flint. His paternal ances- tors for four generations were physicians. He was a student at Harvard, 1853-53; a civil engi- neer on the Louisville & Nashville railroad at Bowling Green, Ky., 1853-54; civil en- gineer in the office of the city surveyor, Buffalo, N.Y., 1854; student of medicine in the office of Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, Buffalo, N.Y., 18.54^ 56; attended medical lectures at the L^ni- versity of Louisville, Ky., 1854-55 and 1855- 56; was assistant to Dr. John C. Dalton, professor of physi- olo.gy, W^oodstock ( Vt. ) medical college, 1855 ; attended lectures at the Jefferson medical col- lege, Philadelphia, Pa., 1856-57, and was gradu- ated an M.D. in 1857. He practised in Buffalo, N.Y., where he was editor of the Buffalo Medical Journal. 1857-60; professor of physiology in the medical department of the L^niversity of Buffalo,.