Francis Marion FLYNN was born in Mount Ayr, Iowa, on 25 January 1903. He lived in Iowa with his family until coming to the University of Missouri in Columbia. The FLYNN family moved to Columbia also. In 1924 FLYNN received his bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

FLYNN worked for E. W. STEPHENS's Publishing Company in Columbia from 1924 to 1926 and then travelled to Japan to work at the Japan Advertiser Press. After three years in Japan, FLYNN came back to the United States and started working for the New York Daily News and then went to the Detroit Mirror for two years. Once the Mirror ceased publication, Flynn went back to the New York Daily News, where he spent the next forty years in various positions.

The FLYNN Papers were donated to the University of Missouri by Margaret F. M. DAVIS on 9 June 1987 (Accession No. 4776). These papers contain many different materials. Letters from Richard M. NIXON, Dwight D. EISENHOWER, and John F. KENNEDY to Francis M. "Jack" FLYNN dominate the collection's correspondence. The letters usually center on the New York Daily News editorials during the 1950s and 1960s.

The collection has issues of the in-house publication, News Pix, which was published every month "for those who shape The News, New York's Picture Newspaper." Additionally, there are three folders of photographs showing FLYNN at various functions with personalities in entertainment, politics, and sports.

Missing from the collection is personal correspondence from the periods of the 1940s through the 1960s.

SOURCE:
http://whmc.umsystem.edu/invent/3812.html

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, 2008