MAJ. JOHN FLYNN SICK - 1901

FLYNN, BROWN

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 1/6/2017 at 10:46:16

Dubuque Daily Herald, July 5, 1901

MAJ. FLYNN SICK
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HE WAS FOUND IN HIS ROOM
IN AN UNCONSCIOUS CONDITION
FROM THE HEAT
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One of the Oldest Printers in
Iowa-Reported to Be Seriously
Ill at a Hospital
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Maj. John R. Flynn, who rooms with Mr. Brown’s family at the southwest corner of Main and Fifth Streets, was found in an unconscious condition in his room this morning and for a short time it was thought he was dead. A physician was summoned and he was revived, and shortly afterward an ambulance was telephoned for and he was taken to Mercy Hospital. The intense heat of the past week has had a very enervating effect on him and the heat of Thursday so exhausted him that he could hardly walk up or downstairs. It was not known, however, that he was any worse than usual until a member of the family went to his room and found him apparently dead. He was overcome form the heat sometime during the night, and laid unconscious until his condition was discovered. Mr. and Mrs. Brown did all that could be done until the arrival of the physician. He is in a rather weakened condition, but it is not thought that serious results will follow.

Maj. Flynn is one of the oldest printers in the state. He has worked at typesetting for many years in Dubuque, and was the first man to establish a newspaper in East Dubuque. For several years he published a newspaper in Carlinville, Ill., and was prominent as a Democratic politician, having at one time run as a candidate for congress.