Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Flansburg, John Y. May 15, 1838 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Flansburg, John Y,. Ohio, was born in Ohio, May 15, 1838. His father was 
Bartholomew, a son of Richard Flansburg, of Revolutionary fame, who was a 
boatman from Albany to Fort Stanwix. Joseph Flansburg was a resident of 
Mayfield, Fulton county and at an early day came to Russia, and afterwards 
went to Hasenclever Hills. Herkimer county, and spent the remainder of his 
days. He was in the war of 1812. Bartholomew Flansburg was born in Mayfield in 
1809. He married Angeline Stephens, of Russia, by whom he had six sons and 
four daughters. In 1824 Mr. Flansburg came to Ohio and purchased a farm, where 
he lived and died May 3, 1882. He was a Whig and later a Republican. He and 
his wife were Methodists. The latter is now living with her son, Francis, in 
Wilmurt, at the age of eighty-two. John Y. Flansburg was reared on a farm and 
educated in the common schools of Ohio, where he has always lived. In 1861 he 
enlisted in Company E, Ninety-seventh regiment, N.Y. Volunteers, and was 
inservice eighteen months. He was in the battles of Cedar Mountain, 
Rappahannock Station, Thoroughfare Gap and the Second Bull Run. At the latter 
battle he was wounded and held prisoner on the field eight days, when he made 
his escape and joined the hospital corps, where he remained from September 9, 
1862. to January 30, 1863, being then discharged. At the close of the war he 
returned to his home in Ohio, and has since followed farming. October 17, 
1868, he married Sarah E. Conklin, daughter of Henry S. and Annie (Edick) 
Conklin. of Columbia county. Mr. Conklin and wife were early settlers of Ohio, 
where both died. Subject and wife have one child, Dean R. August 6, 1871, Mrs. 
Flansburg died, and February 19, 1874. he married second, Ann Cumming She died 
September 29, 1877, and in 1878 he married Jane Bovce, of Saratoga, daughter 
of David and Elizabeth Boyce. By his third marriage he has four children : 
Earl G., Edna A., Edith M. and Fred.   Mr. Flansburg is a Republican.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.


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