Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Flint, Daniel 1881 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory (1913)

DANIEL FLINT
    Recognized among hop growers as an authority in that line, Mr. Flint, who
resides in Sacramento, Cal., also enjoys the honor of being the first man in the
state to experiment with the product under the climatic conditions found in
California. He was born in Swanzey, N. H., May 9, 1832, his parents being
natives of Vermont. His mother was in maidenhood Harriet Rixford, and shortly
after her marriage with Benjamin Flint, accompanied him to a New Hampshire farm,
where they remained during life.

    The youth of Daniel Flint was spent upon the home place, and after
completing his education, which included also an academic course, he worked on
his father's farm a few months. Later he became a clerk in Winchester and after
three years' service went to Crown Point, N. Y., where he entered the employ of
Flint & Holton, his duties taking him upon Lake Champlain. In 1853 he decided to
ally his future with a number of pioneers who were about to immigrate to the
west, and by way of Cape Horn on the clipper ship "Mystery," after a voyage of
one hundred and thirty-nine days, finally reached San Francisco, where he
secured a position in the bonded warehouse of the United States government. In
1855 he became his brother's bookkeeper, faithfully performing his duties for
three years, when he located in the Sacramento valley and engaged in hop
raising, he and his brother having previously conducted experiments in Alameda
county. Having convinced himself that the climate of California was conducive to
the successful culture of hops, Mr. Flint purchased in Sacramento county twenty
acres, setting out the first hop yard ever planted on the Pacific coast. His
crop justified all his expectations, but upon attempting to dispose of it, he
was met by an unforeseen obstacle, the brewers declining to accept his product,
stating their preference for the eastern hops which they had long employed in
the manufacture of their goods. Not discouraged, however, Mr. Flint proposed to
a prominent brewer that he try a portion of the western hops which should cost
him nothing should they prove unsatisfactory. The manufacturer agreed, and,
after experiments, purchased from Mr. Flint his entire crop. Continuing to
improve his product, Mr. Flint soon became recognized throughout the state as
the most expert hop grower in the west. As a proof of his ability in this line,
he wrote a prize paper on the subject in response to a request from the
government, receiving for his article a draft for $140. Besides his two ranches
in Sacramento county, of fifty and sixty-five acres, respectively, he owns a
number of hop yards elsewhere, and employs a large number of people during the
picking season. He is also interested in the breeding of high grade horses, not
only roadsters and trotters, but draft animals as well.

    Mrs. Flint, a most gracious and charming woman, became the wife of Daniel
Flint, August 22, 1854. Prior to her marriage she was Mary E. Russell and was
born in Crown Point, N. Y., the daughter of Jonathan Russell. The following
children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Flint: Lillian J., now Mrs. Elwood Bruner;
Russell E.; Flood V.; Alice H., wife of William Lampert; William R.; Howard M.;
Clarence C., of the United States Navy; Stanley M., and Edward C. All the sons,
with the exception of two, are engaged in hop culture. Mr. Flint is a stanch
Republican, and although many times requested by friends of note to accept a
public office, he has deemed it unwise to do so, and continues in his quiet mode
of life. He is an active Odd Fellow and has served also as master of the local
grange and grand master of the state grange, of which he acted as treasurer four
terms. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is deeply interested
in the work of the Humane Society, which he assisted in organizing and of which
he is treasurer. He is also closely identified with the charitable work of the
community. For two years he served as superintendent of the track of the State
Agricultural Society, of which he was a director for three years. Throughout his
career Mr. Flint has ever shown toward his fellow men the greatest consideration
and by his honorable dealings maintains the esteem of his many friends and
associates.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

HISTORY OF YOLO COUNTY CALIFORNIA
WITH
Biographical Sketches
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified With Its Growth
and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
TOM GREGORY
AND OTHER WELL KNOWN WRITERS
ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME

HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA [1913]


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