Madison County ID Archives Biographies.....Flamm, Henry J. 1870 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1920)

HENRY J. FLAMM is a prominent exponent of commercial enterprise at Rexburg,
where he is conducting business as the president and manager of the Henry Flamm
Company, having one of the leading mercantile establishments in his section of
the state. Nor are his efforts confined alone to this line. He recognizes his
duties and responsibilities in other connections and particularly in relation to
the moral progress of the community and he is now a bishop in the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was born in Logan, Utah, July 14, 1870,
and is a son of Henry and Helena (Bock) Flamm, who were natives of Switzerland
and of Germany respectively. They came to America in early life with their
parents and both families established homes in Pennsylvania. Henry Flamm worked
in the woolen mills of that state until 1852, when he crossed the plains with ox
teams to Utah, settling at Cottonwood, where he lived for several years, being
employed in various ways there. He afterward went to Logan, Utah, where he
engaged in farming for a number of years, and then turned his attention to
merchandising, in which he engaged until 1883. In that year he removed to Oneida
county, Idaho, settling in a section which is now included within the borders of
Madison county. He engaged in farming until 1886, when he once more took up
mercantile pursuits and established the store which has since been developed
into the large department store now carried on under the name of the Henry Flamm
Company. This is the largest and oldest mercantile institution of this character
north of Pocatello. Mr. Flamm continued in active connection with the business
throughout his remaining days, and his progressive spirit, close application and
unfaltering enterprise were dominant factors in its upbuilding and success. He
died August 19, 1913, leaving a handsome competence as the reward of his
business endeavors and an honorable name, which came as the result of an upright
life. He was in the stake presidency at Rexburg in connection with Thomas E.
Ricks, being first counselor to the president. He first came to Rexburg at the
call of the church to assist in colonizing the district. Mrs. Helena Flamm
passed away in December, 1883.

   Henry J. Flamm, whose name introduces this review, spent his youthful days in
Logan, Utah, and Rexburg, Idaho, and in both places attended school, becoming
eventually a student in the Ricks Academy, while later he continued his
education in the Brigham Young College at Logan, Utah. He then returned home and
took charge of his father's office, continuing in that connection for four
years. At the end of that time the business was incorporated and Henry J. Flamm
became general manager of the Henry Flamm Company and has been both president
and manager since his father's death. The business is capitalized at one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, and the department store which they own and control
would be a credit to a city of much larger size. The store comprises one
building ninety-four by one hundred feet and another thirty-eight by thirty-four
feet, and they utilize two floors and basement. They carry the largest stock of
merchandise in the state, and the firm name has ever stood as the expression of
most progressive and modern business methods. They have always maintained the
highest standards in the personnel of the house, in the line of goods carried
and in the treatment accorded patrons. Mr. Flamm has valuable farming interests
in this section of the state. He is also identified with banking as vice
president of the First National Bank and one of its directors. This is one of
the oldest and strongest moneyed institutions of Madison county and Mr. Flamm
was numbered among its founders. He is also a partner of R. J. Comstock in
irrigation and land projects at Mud Lake, Jefferson county, where they are
reclaiming a large tract of land, owning now ten thousand acres.

   In December, 1891, Mr. Flamm was married to Miss Lorena Eckersell and though
they have no children of their own they have reared two: John E. Terry, who
operates a farm belonging to Mr. Flamm; and May Darley, now the wife of Renaldo
Harper, living at Albion, Idaho.

   Mr. Flamm is a stalwart supporter of the democratic party and has served as a
member of the city council for five terms. His father was the first'mayor of the
town and chairman of the first village board, while Henry J. Flamm has served as
chairman of the city council. He has also been a member of the board of
education for five or six terms and is at present its chairman. In religious
belief he is connected with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
is bishop of the second ward, having occupied the position for seven years. He
was previously counselor to the bishop of the first ward for fifteen years and
has worked in the various church organizations. The name of Flamm is inseparably
interwoven with the history of Rexburg and the development of the city and
surrounding district and Mr. Flamm is numbered among the energetic, farsighted
and successful business men of the city.


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