DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: FLOWERS, DAVID WHITMER (A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894)
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A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND.
A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894

        DAVID WHITMER FLOWERS, late a prominent merchant of Mount Pleasant
township, was born in Darke county, Ohio, June 9, 1846, son of Amos and
Phebe (Longstreet) Flowers. Mr. Flowers' paternal ancestors were of English
descent, and in early day settled in eastern Pennsylvania, in Bucks county,
of which part of the state his grandparents, William and Mary Flowers, were
pioneers, locating there before the dawn of the present century. Amos
Flowers was born in Bucks county, December 5, 1811, and there married his
wife, who was born in the same county and state in the year in 1821. She
was the daughter of Miller Longstreet, who was also one of the early
settlers of eastern Pennsylvania, where he located in the time of the
colonies. Amos and Phebe Flowers had a family of eleven children, of whom
the following grew to maturity: Virena, wife of L.W. Colvin; Ella, wife of
L.S. Allen; David W., the subject of this sketch and George M., a resident
of Delaware county, Ind. The parents moved to Darke county, Ohio, in 1840,
where they resided on a farm until 1852. Amos Flowers died in 1861. He was
for many years a local minister of the Methodist church, in which he was
highly esteemed; belonged to the Masonic fraternity, and was a firm
supporter of the principles of the republican party. He passed away in the
hope of a life beyond, and left as a legacy to his children an unblemished
reputation and a record of a life well spent in the service of his Master
and in behalf of his fellow men. His wife, a woman of most excellent
character, and a consistent member of the Methodist church, in the
communion of which the greater part of her life was passed, was summoned to
her final rest in 1874.
        David Whitmer Flowers enjoyed the advantages of a liberal
education, attending, first, the common schools and later the National
normal at Lebanon, Ohio, where he pursued his studies for a period of one
year. In 1866 he went to Mason county, Ill., where he was engaged in
teaching for some time, and afterwards accepted a clerkship in a general
store, in which capacity he continued two years. In 1869, April 25, he was
united in marriage to Miss Cassie Kelley, of Miami county, Ohio, who bore
him two children: Harry W. and Ellis C. Mrs. Flowers died July 3, 1873, in
Mason county, Ill., and in September, 1875. Mr. Flowers married Mattie
Curtis, in Butler county, Ohio, where she was born in 1853. To this
marriage four children were born, namely: Edna M., Laura B., Charles and
Oscar. While in Illinois Mr. Flowers, for some time, held the office of
town clerk. He removed to Vermillion county, that state, in 1882, and
engaged in farming for two years, and, later, began merchandising, which he
carried on for one year, removing at the end of that time to Yorktown,
Delaware county, Ind., where, after 1885, he successfully conducted a
general goods establishment. Mr. Flowers, by diligently pursuing a
straightforward and honorable course, succeeded in building up a very
profitable business, and at the same time was an honor to the occupation in
which he was engaged. He carried a large stock of miscellaneous
merchandise, and by consulting the wishes of his many customers, kept fully
abreast of the times, and occupied a front rank among the successful
commercial men of Delaware county. He was a member of the Odd Fellows
fraternity, and prominently identified with the order of Red Men. August
25, 1893, David Whitmer Flowers passed from earth, a sincere member of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Yorktown.


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