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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  JOHN F. FLYNN, attorney at law, Worthington, has been a resident of Nobles

county for twenty-eight years, having spent nearly his whole life here, and he

enjoys an acquaintance throughout the county equalled by but few men. He was

born in Buffalo county, Wisconsin, Dec. 12, 1871, being next to the eldest of

nine children, all but one of whom are still living. His father, Andrew Flynn,

was a native of Ireland. He died at his home near Ellsworth in 1885. His mother,

Susan (Canole) Flynn, also a native of Ireland, is still living at Ellsworth.



  John accompanied his parents to Nobles county when they moved here April 20,

1880, and the county has been his home ever since. Their first place of

residence was on section 31, Grand Prairie township, and that was the home of

our subject for many years. He had started his schooling at Wernerville, Wis.,

and after his arrival in Nobles county he attended the district school of Grand

Prairie township, and later, when the town of Ellsworth was founded in 1884, he

was a student in the graded schools of that village. Completing the course there

in 1893, he began teaching school just over the line in Iowa. During the winter

of 1894-95 he attended the Sioux Falls Business college, and the following

summer worked en the farm. The next winter he again went to school, taking one

term in a preparatory school at Sioux City.



  He then decided to enter the law business, and on May 12, 1896, he entered the

law office of C. M. Crandall at Worthington, where he was a student for about a

year and a half. In September, 1897, he began his studies in the law department

of the Minnesota state university, and completed a two years' course in one

year. He returned to Worthington in June, 1898, and again entered Mr. Crandall's

office. The following November he moved to Ellsworth and opened a law office,

although at the time he had not been admitted to the bar. He took the

examination of the state board at once, however, and on Jan. 9, 1899, was

admitted to the bar. He continued his practice at Ellsworth until 1905, when he

moved to Worthington. In addition to his law business Mr. Flynn was interested

in other lines of business. In company with C. A. Bird and P. F. Levins he

formed the real estate firm of Flynn, Levins & Bird, and was a member of that

firm Several years. He was one of the organizers of the First National Bank of

Ellsworth, which was granted a charter in 1901, and was made vice president of

the bank. He resigned that office in 1906, but is still a director. In 1903 he

was one of the founders of the Ellsworth Land & Town Lot company, which

purchased the Ellsworth townsite. He was made president at the time, an office

he still holds.



  During all the time of his residence in Ellsworth Mr. Flynn was village

attorney, and he drafted many of the ordinances of that village. He also served

one term as recorder of that village. Mr. Flynn is one of the wheelhorses of the

democratic party of Nobles county, and no democrat takes a more active interest

in the affairs of his party than does Mr. Flynn. In 1902 he received the

democratic nomination for state senator from the Nobles-Murray district and was

defeated by Daniel Shell by a majority of 718. Again in 1906 was he honored with

the nomination, and came within 67 votes of carrying the county against S. B.

Bedford, who was elected.



  Mr. Flynn removed to Worthington in February, 1905, formed a partnership with

J. A. Cashel, a graduate of Ann Arbor, and since then has been practicing law in

the county seat town. Fraternally Mr. Flynn is associated with the Modern

Woodmen of America and Catholic Order of Foresters, of Ellsworth. He owns 570

acres of real estate in the vicinity of Worthington and owns his own home in the

city.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 



WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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