Yolo-Sacramento County CA Archives Biographies.....Flint, Russell R. 1859 - 
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Author: Tom Gregory (1913)

RUSSELL R. FLINT

    A man who has done much toward the development of Yolo county is E. E.
Flint, who as trustee of reclamation district No. 537, working in conjunction
with the government, lent valuable assistance toward the reclamation of the
bottom lands of the Sacramento river. His father, Daniel Flint, came to
California in 1853 via Cape Horn, and established the pioneer hop yards of
California. (His biographical sketch appears on a separate page of this work.)

    Russell E. Flint was born in Sacramento, Cal., in 1859, and was educated in
this city and at the California Military Academy at Oakland. He later accepted a
position as bookkeeper for the Friend & Terry Lumber Company of Sacramento, and
subsequently, in 1884, took charge of his father's ranch three miles north of
Washington, which later on he purchased. The property consists of one hundred
and eighty-three acres, sixty of which are in hops and one hundred in alfalfa.
This is considered the finest alfalfa land in California, in 1910 producing six
crops without irrigation. Subsequently he put in an irrigating plant for the hop
yard and in 1912 the yield approximated three thousand pounds to the acre, dry,
which makes a gross yield of $600 per acre.

    In 1890 Mr. Flint was united in marriage with Miss May Burnham, who was born
in Sacramento, and whose father, Henry Burnham, came to California in 1850 via
Cape Horn, from Gloucester, Mass. For fifty years he was in the service of the
Friend & Terry Lumber Company of Sacramento, his death occurring in 1908. Mr.
Flint is a member of the Sutter Club and he is a Republican in politics. His
interest in behalf of the community in which he has so long resided never
wavers, and he is conceded to be one of the most able citizens.


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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