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Note: 25 July 1860 Naugatuck, New Haven Co., Connecticut pg 619
Arthur Flynn 21 Ireland ruber shoe shop $10
James 18 Ireland joiner $20
28 July 1870 pg 444 St. Louis twp., St. Louis Co., Missouri
James C. Flinn 30 Ire $1000-$200 house carpenter
Louisa 31 Conn
Martha 3 Mo
Annie 1 Mo
1880 pg 401 St. Louis, St., Louis Co., Missouri
James C. Flynn 39 Ire Ire Ire carpenter
Louise 40 CT CT CT
Mattie 13 MO Ire Ct school
Alice 11 Mo Ire Ct school
Cecile 7 Mo Ire Ct school
9 June 1900 St. Louis, St. Louis Co., Missouri ward 26 pg 105
J. Crawford Flynn April 1840 60 married 35 years Ire Ire Scotland real estate agent immigrated 1853 in US 47 years
Louisa M. July 1839 60 4 children 2 live CT CT CT
Harvey Essman Nov 1893 6 grandson MO MO MO
25 April 1910 22 ward, St. Louis, St.,Louis Co., Missouri pg 114
4344 garfield avenue James C. Flynn 61 widowed Ire IRE IRE 1852 immigrated real eatate
Name: J C Flynn
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 26 Jan 1917
Event Place: El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status:
Birth Date:
Birthplace: ,
Father's Name:
Mother's Name:
Certificate Number: 1365
GS Film number: 2051761
Digital Folder Number: 005145484
Image Number: 00155
Citing this Record:
"Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," index and images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K34K-J8W : accessed 13 Aug 2014), J C Flynn, 26 Jan 1917; citing certificate number 1365, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2051761.
Biographical Sketches of
James Crawford and William C. Flynn
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James Crawford Flynn
Stevens, Walter B., St. Louis, the Fourth City, 1764-1909, Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909, pp. 260-261.
James Crawford Flynn, in his youth an apprentice at the shoemaker's trade, is now conducting a prosperous contracting business and as the architect of his own fortunes has built wisely and well. A native son of the Emerald isle, he was born in County Cavan on the 12th of April, 1840, his parents being Owen and Martha (Crawford) Flynn, who came to the United States about ten years after the arrival of their son James, although they never lived west of Connecticut. The mother died in that state, after which the father returned to his native country, where he remained until his demise. He was a carpenter by trade and in that field of labor provided for the support of his family.
James C. Flynn obtained his education in his native country and came to the United States in the year 1857 when a youth of seventeen. Favorable reports reached him concerning America and her opportunities and proved too attractive to be resisted. He therefore bade adieu to friends and native land and joined his sisters, who were living in Connecticut. He had previously served an apprenticeship to the shoemaker's trade in Ireland and after reaching America was apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, for he believed he would find it more congenial that the occupation for which he had been trained in Ireland. He thoroughly mastered the builders' art, becoming an expert workman and, believing that the Middle West offered still better advantages, he removed to St. Louis in 1866. Here his first day's wages were four dollars and a half, while in Connecticut he had received only one dollar and seventy-five cents per day. He was employed as a carpenter in this city for five years and then took up the business of contracting on his own account, continuing in this line to the present time. Success has attended him, for the extent and nature of his business has brought him continually increasing prosperity, and he has long since reached a place of affluence.
Mr. Flynn gives his political endorsement to the Republican Party and keeps well informed in the questions and issues of the day. His church relations are with the Protestant Episcopal denomination, while socially he is connect with the Odd Fellows' Society. He was married March 4, 1864 to Miss Louise M. Matthews, of Southington, Connecticut, a daughter of Harry Matthews, a manufacturer of that place. Two children were born unto them: Annice, now the wife of Charles Hutton, of Oswego, Kansas; and Cecily, now Mrs. E. Knapp, of Havana, Cuba. They also lost a daughter and a son: Mattie, who married Ferdinand Essman and is now deceased; and Ben, who died in childhood.
Mr. Flynn has never had occasion to regret his determination to seek a home in the new world, for he here found the opportunities which he sought and which, by the way, are always open to ambitious, energetic young men. He has persevered in the pursuit of a persistent purpose and has at length gained a satisfactory reward.
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Marquis, Albert Nelson, The Book of St. Louisans, St. Louis: St. Louis Republic, 1912. Second Edition, pg. 201.
FLYNN, James Crawford, contractor; born, County Cavan, Ireland, Apr. 12, 1840; son of Owen and Martha (Crawford) Flynn; educated in public schools of native land; married, Southington, Conn., Mar. 4, 1864, Louise M. Matthews; children: Annice (now Mrs. Charles Hutton, of Oswego, Kas.), Cecily (now Mrs. E. Knapp); Mattie and Ben, both deceased. Came to America, 1857; served apprenticeship at carpenter's trade in Connecticut; located in St. Louis, 1866; has engaged in contracting business on own account since 1871. Republican. Episcopalian. Odd Fellow. Office: 4371 Eason Ave. Residence: 4334 Garfield Ave.
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William C. Flynn
Kershaw, W. L., History of Page County, Iowa, Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909, pp. 409-410.
William C. Flynn has made good use of his opportunities and today is classed among the representative and substantial citizens of Page county, having been connected with its agricultural interests since 1874. A native of Ireland, he was born in County Cavan on the 12th of July, 1844, a son of Owen and Martha (Crawford) Flynn, who were also born in Ireland. The parents came to the United States in 1863, the family home being established in Connecticut. The climate, however, did not agree with the father and he returned to his native land in 1864, there passing away three years later. The mother, after her return to Ireland, found it lonesome without her children, who all sought the advantages offered by the new world, and the same year in which she had accompanied her husband on his trip back to the Emerald Isle witnessed her second arrival in the United States. While en route for America, however, she contracted a severe cold, from the effects of which she died a short time later.
William C. Flynn, who was a young man of nineteen years when he arrived in the United States, remained for a time in Connecticut, holding a position in a drug shore in Naugatuck for four or five years, and then he found employment in the woolen mills at Beacon Falls, that state. He was thus connected for seven of eights years when, his health failing him, he was compelled to give up his work along this line. He removed to St. Louis, where for a couple of years he assisted a brother, James C. Flynn, a contractor and builder of that city.
The year 1874 witnessed his arrival in Page county, Iowa, and also witnessed the beginning of his career as a farmer. For about six years he operated a farm as a renter, and then, feeling that his experience and economy warranted his investing in a farm of his own, in 1881 he purchased a tract of eighty acres, which forms the nucleus of his present holdings. He directed his efforts to the general agricultural pursuits and with the passing of the years he became very successful. In 1891 he bought another tract of eighty acres adjoining his original purchase, so that his home farm now consists of one hundred and sixty acres of valuable land located on section 19, Pierce township, and in 1902 he became the owner of one hundred and fifty-four acres in Fremont township, this county. That his decision to make farming his life work was a wise one is indicated by the fact that, although when he came here he was compelled to borrow sufficient money with which to pay his way from St. Louis, he ranks today among the substantial farmers and extensive landowners of his section of the county.
Mr. Flynn was united in marriage, on January 2, 1880, to Miss Alice McAllister, of St. Louis, Missouri, where she was born and reared, and the union has been blessed with four children, namely: Joseph A., farming in Pierce township; Fisk H., making his home in Oklahoma; Ralph W., living at home; and William C. following farming near Clarinda, Iowa.
In politics Mr. Flynn gives his allegiance to the republican party, but the honors and emoluments of office have had no attraction for him, preferring, as he does, to direct his entire time and attention to the conduct of his private business interests. A man of strong integrity and purpose, he ranks high in the esteem and regard of his fellowmen, not only because of the gratifying degree of prosperity which he has attained but also by reason of excellent traits of character and his honorable and upright manhood.
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