Biographical Sketch of Frederick C. Flint, Phelps County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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Frederick C. Flint, broker and speculator of Rolla, and one of the
prominent citizens of Phelps county, Mo., is a native of Steuben 
county, N. Y., and the son of Edward and Jane (Clute) Flint.  The
father was born in New York State, was of English descent, and was a
farmer and blacksmith by occupation.  In 1833 he moved to Crawford
county, Ohio, and the following year to Lucas County, in 1835 to
Jackson County, Mich., and in 1837 to Lake County, Ind.  He died in
1860.  His wife, Jane (Clute) Flint, was born in New York State, and
died in 1865, at the age of seventy-two.  They were the parents of
ten children, Frederick C. being the fourth.  He made his home with
his parents and assisted on the farm until twenty-four years of age,
when in 1841 he married Miss Caroline Morris, a native of New York,
born in 1822.  They have three children: Asa, Wilbur and Leonard.
Wilbur is a grocery merchant in Rolla, and was born in Lake County,
Ind., in 1852.  At the age of thirteen he commenced working on the
Pittsburg & Fort Wayne Railroad, where he remained seven years in 
the capacity of brakeman and conductor.  He then worked three years
in a saw mill at Grand Rapids, Mich., four years for P. D. Armour in
Chicago, one year on the dock in Chicago, and the past four years he
has spent engaged in merchandising in Rolla.  In 1887 he married 
Miss Mary Gift, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1859, and to them
has been born one child, Carrie.  Frederick C. Flint followed farming
in Lake County, Ind., until 1865, when he sold out and moved to
Valparaiso, where he engaged in merchandising.  In 1874 he sold out
and became a resident of Rolla, Mo., speculating in notes, etc.  In
1867 he lost his wife, and he afterward married Miss Lizzie McDonald
a native of New York, born in 1857.  Mr. Flint is a good business
man and a well to do citizen.  He is a stanch Republican, and he and
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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