Sullivan-Lycoming County PA Archives Biographies.....FLYNN, John W. 1871 - living in 1899
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  JOHN W. FLYNN, who has been engaged in the tanning business more or less all of
  his life, is at present superintendent of the Union Tanning Company of  Laporte,
  Pa., one of the largest industries of its kind in Sullivan County, and he has
  proven himself well worthy of a position of so great responsibility. He is of
  Irish extraction, was born in Sullivan County, N. Y., March 22, 1856, and is a
  son of Michael and Mary Agnes (Nolan) Flynn, and a grandson of Roger Flynn.
  
    Roger Flynn was the founder of this well-known family in this country. He was
  born in Leansborough, County Roscommon, Ireland, immigrated to the United States
  about 1848, and settled in Sullivan County, N. Y., where he followed the
  pursuits of an agriculturist the remainder of his active days. He was the father
  of the following children: Bridget; James; Michael; Catherine; Mary-Ann; and Jane.
  
    Michael Flynn, the father of our subject, was also born in Ireland, and was a
  young man when his parents came to America. He engaged in the tanning business
  during his early manhood and a few years later purchased a farm in Sullivan
  County, N. Y., carrying on general farming until his death at the age of
  eighty-four years. He was united in the bonds of wedlock with Mary Agnes Nolan,
  a native of Ireland, who died at the age of sixty years, leaving the following
  children: Joseph, who most of the time has been engaged in the tanning business,
  and married Adelia Clark; John W., our subject; Busie; Michael, who also is
  connected with the Union Tanning Company; Thomas, a farmer on the old homestead;
  and Edward J., a woodsman.
  
    Our subject acquired a liberal education in the common schools of his native
  township, attending school during the winter months and working in a tannery
  during his spare time. In 1882 he and his brothers, Joseph and Michael, went to
  Thorndale, Pa., and took contracts for finishing leather for the Laporte Tanning
  Company. In the year following, John went to Laporte for the same company and
  two years later was advanced to bookkeeper, remaining in that capacity for one
  year, when he entered Warner's Business College at Elmira, N. Y., graduating
  from that institution on January 16, 1888. He then accepted a position as
  bookkeeper for Boak, Woddrop & Co., of Hughesville, Pa., where he remained until
  the following fall. He then bought an interest in the Muncy Manufacturing
  Company at Muncy, Pa., which he held until July, 1889; in August, following, he
  again entered the employ of James McFarlane & Co. of Laporte, as bookkeeper and
  remained until June, 1890. Mr. Flynn then went to Jamison, Pa., where he
  accepted a position as bookkeeper and manager of the company store for Thomas E.
  Proctor, a well-to-do tanner of that village. Remaining in the latters employ
  until he sold his tannery to the Union Tanning Company, our subject then engaged
  as bookkeeper for the new company until February, 1894, at Jamison, when he was
  transferred to Laporte as superintendent of the company's interests in that
  borough. Our subject has remained in this employ up to the present time and has
  won the confidence and good-will of both his employers and the men under him.
  The Union Tanning Company owns and operates several tanneries in that section of
  the state and is composed of the following officers: C. S. Horton, president; M.
  F. Hammond, secretary; W. H. Newton, treasurer; A. S. Buckley, general
  superintendent of the tanneries: and C. B. Farr, general superintendent of bark
  and timber. The officers are all prominent residents of Williamsport, Pa., with
  the exception of Mr. Buckley, who resides at Athens, Pa.
  
    Mr. Flynn, while a resident of Jamison, was appointed postmaster of that
  village and held that office until 1897. He was wedded September 25, 1894, to
  Mary A. Breiger, a daughter of Charles and Frances Breiger of Laporte. Two
  children bless their home, namely: Joseph, born December 31, 1895; and Charles,
  born June 6, 1898. Religiously Mr. and Mrs. Flynn are prominent members of the
  Catholic Church. He has served as a member of the borough council, has been
  member of the school board and board of health for the past five years, and in
  his political affiliations is a supporter of the Democratic party. He has been a
  member of the Democratic standing committee for the past three years; he served
  as delegate to the state convention held at Altoona, Pa., in 1898.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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