Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Flint, Axel 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00003.html#0000719 February 6, 2008, 5:24 am

Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Axel Flint, who is now at the head of an extensive business, as a dealer in 
milk, cottage cheese, butter and also ice cream, which he manufactures, was 
born in Sweden in 1864. His father, N. N. Flint, was a native of that country, 
born in 1834. He came to American in 1881, locating at Lemont, where he worked 
as a common laborer in the rock quarry. His wife, Gertrude Flint, was also a 
native of Sweden and their family numbered eight children: Nils, living in 
Sweden; August, who is a painter of Joliet; Axel; Thomas, of Joliet; Oliver, 
who is alderman from the First ward of Joliet, and is in the dairy business 
with his two brothers, Axel and Thomas; Johanna, the wife of Peter Munson, of 
Joliet; Anna, who is a deaconess in Omaha, Nebraska; and Minnie, the wife of 
Ernest Anderson, of Joliet. Axel Flint came to the new world about 1883. He 
was then a young man of nineteen years and the opportunities for more rapidly 
winning success in the United States caused him to bid adieu to friends and 
native country and come to America. After two weeks spent upon the water he 
landed at New York and thence made his way to Lemont, where he remained for a 
short time. He afterward accompanied the family on the removal to Edmonson 
county, Kentucky, making settlement at a place now called New Sweden. Three 
months later, however, he returned to Lemont, where he remained for about a 
year, then removing to Lockport, where he worked in the flour mills for a 
year. On the expiration of that period he accepted a position with Mr. 
Sprague, delivering milk in Joliet, for three years, after which he embarked 
in business on his own account, opening a store at No. 406 Collins street, 
where he buys and delivers milk, also buys and sells butter and manufactures 
ice cream. He began the business in 1891 and continued alone for a year, after 
which he admitted his brother Tom to a partnership. When another year had 
passed their brother Oliver became a member of the firm, which is known as the 
Flint Sanitary Milk Company. They now have an extensive trade, handling milk, 
cottage cheese, butter and ice cream, and they have steadily prospered, now 
doing a business which amounts to fifty thousand dollars annually. The 
excellence of their products has secured to them a liberal patronage, which is 
continued by reason of their fair and honorable methods and their earnest 
desire to please their customers. Mr. Flint has been dependent upon his own 
resources since coming to the new world and has made steady advance in 
business circles, thus winning his way to a position of affluence. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/bios/flint2582nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 3.4 Kb