FLINT, J. H.

FLINT, ROWE

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Date: 10/3/2001 at 21:39:06

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

J. H. FLINT, attorney and counselor at law, Opera House Block; is a native of Somerset Co., Me.; born Sept. 12, 1826; he attended school there, read law, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1850; in the fall of the same year, went to California; spring of 1854, he returned to Maine, remained a short time, went to California again, and returned East in 1855; he came to Iowa the following year, located at Lyons, May 3, 1856, and engaged in the practice of law; he was commissioned Quartermaster of the 26th I. V. I; he was Quartermaster of the Post, Black River Bridge, rear of Vicksburg, and also Quartermaster of the First Brigade, in the First Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps; went with Sherman to the sea, and was with him in his campaign through the Carolinas, then to Washington, where he was mustered out in June, 1865; after his return from the service, he located in Clinton, and since then he has practiced his profession here; he has held the office of City Attorney for five years, and is Chairman of the Clinton Co. Republican Committee. He married Miss Ada Rowe, a native of Somerset Co., Me., Oct. 25, 1855; they have one son-Fletcher Ware Flint, born July 22. 1868.