Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Flint, Charles Newton December 24, 1848 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com October 26, 2010, 12:35 pm Source: California and Californians, Vol. IV, Published 1932, Pages 81 - 83 Author: The Lewis Publishing Company CHARLES NEWTON FLINT was born at Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York, December 24, 1848, and is a son of Charles Lynde Flint and Esther (Moss) Flint, both of whom were born in Genesee County, New York, as members of sterling pioneer families of that section of the old Empire State. In the earlier period of his independent career Charles L. Flint conducted a general store, and later he became a prominent representative of the flour-milling industry, in which he operated for many years one of the old-time and important water-power mills in the City of Rochester. His wife died at Mount Morris, New York, in 1854, when their son Charles N., of this review, was five years of age, and he finally removed to Rolla, Missouri, where he owned and operated a flour mill a number of years and where he died in 1872. The original American representatives of the Flint family came from County Flint, Wales. On the maternal side Mr. Flint is a direct descendant of John Moss, who arrived in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1638. Charles N. Flint received his early education in the private school known as Satterlee Institute, Rochester, New York, and in the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie. He became bookkeeper for the Rochester firm of Love, Hamilton & Company, engaged in the wholesale and retail hardware business. In 1871 he joined his father at Rolla, Missouri, where he took the position of bookkeeper and assistant cashier of the National Bank of Rolla, besides which he there served a number of years as treasurer of the Missouri School of Mines. Mr. Flint became a member of the Masonic fraternity at Rolla, and upon establishing his residence in Los Angeles he became affiliated with Pentalpha Lodge No. 202, A. F. and A. M., and is a life member of the same. In the year 1886 Mr. and Mrs. Flint established their permanent home in Los Angeles, and here he became associated with the First National Bank. In 1887 he resigned his position and became associated with the Southern California National Bank, the nucleus from which was later evolved the present Merchants National Bank, one of the large and influential financial institutions of the Pacific Coast. Mr. Flint was one of the organizers of the old German-American Savings Bank of Los Angeles, of which he was made vice president. In 1921 it was merged with the Security Trust & Savings Bank, guaranty office, and on April 1, 1929, the Security Trust & Savings Bank was merged with the Los Angeles First National Trust & Savings Bank. Mr. Flint was selected as one of the directors of the new bank, the name of which is the Security First National Bank. In 1903 Mr. Flint became associated with the late Walter A. Bonynge, Sr., in organizing the Commercial National Bank and was still a director at the time that institution was merged, in 1926, with the Bank of Italy National Trust and Savings Institution. Mr. Flint is now a member of the Regional Board of the Bank of Italy, which board controls 121 branch banks in Southern California. Mr. Flint was an influential figure in the upbuilding of the old German- American Savings Bank, later known as the Guarantee Trust & Savings Bank, and which was merged with the Security Trust & Savings Bank in December, 1921. He is thus a director of the largest trust and savings bank in California, even as he is of one of the largest national banking concerns in the United States, the Bank of Italy. He has been for several years retired from active banking service. Mr. Flint was for eighteen years president of Crescent Creamery Company, and afterwards was for a number of years chairman of its Board of Directors. He retained the latter position until July, 1927, when the company sold its business to the Western Dairies Products Company. Mr. Flint has been a close student of governmental and economic questions, is well fortified in his political convictions and is a staunch supporter of the cause of the Republican party. Mr. and Mrs. Flint have shown a fine appreciation of the objective responsibilities that success involves, and have made their prosperity a medium for the expression of their abiding human sympathy and interest. About the opening of the year 1928 they created a trust fund of $120,000 for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a professorship of philosophy at the Los Angeles branch of the University of California, and they have likewise created a trust fund ($40,000) for the purpose of aiding worthy students handicapped in a financial way. Mr. and Mrs. Flint have likewise established a trust fund for the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Foundation, Inc., and in October, 1927, they presented to the Ebell Club of Los Angeles cash and securities to the amount $40,000, to be used in maintaining a number of annual scholarships that shall perpetuate the ideals of the club along educational lines. Mr. and Mrs. Flint have also arranged for additional trusts along educational and charitable lines, involving a sum in excess of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. At Rolla, Missouri, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Flint and Miss Jennie Winters, who was born at Clyde, Sandusky County, Ohio, a daughter of John and Sarah (Harding) Winters, sterling pioneers of that section of the Buckeye State. Mrs. Flint was graduated from the high school of her native place and also from the Ohio State Normal School at Geneva, after which she continued her studies in Vassar College. A woman of gracious personality and distinctive culture, Mrs. Flint has long been a prominent figure in club and social affairs in California. She was the third to serve as president of the Ebell Club of Los Angeles, holding this office two years, 1898-1900, and she thereafter served many years as a director of the club, of which she is a life member. She has served also as an officer of the Ruskin Club, is a life member of the local Woman's Athletic Club, is a member of the Friday Morning Club, and was the first district president of the Los Angeles District Federation of Women's Clubs. Her deep and abiding interest in the Ebell Club was significantly shown when she joined with her husband in making the splendid fund contribution to that organization, as already noted in this context. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/losangeles/bios/flint1054gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 7.0 Kb