Robert L. Flickinger Biography


	This biography appears on pages 773-774 in "History of Dakota 
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				ROBERT L. FLICKINGER. 

	Robert L. Flickinger, a successful lawyer of Gettysburg, Potter 
county, who is now serving as states attorney, was born in Faulk county 
on the 10th of June, 1887, a son of Lewis D. and Mahala M. (Peterson) 
Flickinger. The father was born near Port Byron, Illinois, in 1857, and 
devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. He removed from Illinois to 
Iowa and thence to South Dakota in 1882. The mother was born near 
Keosauqua, Iowa, in 1862, and came to this state in 1881. They were 
married in Spink county, where Mr. Flickinger owned land, and he 
subsequently purchased a tract adjoining his farm, which, however, was 
situated just across the line, in Brown county. He continued to reside 
upon his place in Spink county until 1905 and published a weekly paper 
at Mellette for a number of years in addition to operating his farms. 
For some time he also engaged in buying and selling stock in Gettysburg 
and at one time he was in the automobile business in North Dakota. He 
is now living in northeastern Montana, where he is engaged in farming 
and stock-raising on a claim. He gives his political allegiance to the 
democratic party and served as justice of the peace in Spink county and 
also held a number of other local offices. 

	Robert L. Flickinger attended school in Mellette, where he 
completed the high school course, and later entered the law college of 
the State University of South Dakota at Vermillion, from which he was 
graduated in 1908. When twenty-one years of age he began the practice 
of his profession at Clark, South Dakota, and remained there for a year 
in the office of C. G. Sherwood. He then located in Gettysburg, where 
he has since remained and where he has gained a high standing 
professionally. He engages in the general practice of law, and his 
ability and the care with which he prepares his cases has enabled him 
to win a large percentage of favorable verdicts. He owns stock in the 
Potter County Telephone Company, of which he is the secretary. 

	Mr. Flickinger was married on the 30th of June, 1912, to Miss 
Grace Libby, a native of lndiana. Her father, Wallace Lisby, is a 
contractor and carpenter and since about 1895 has resided in Clark, 
South Dakota. In her maidenhood her mother was Miss Margaret Pike, a 
native of Indiana. To Mr. and Mrs. Flickinger have been born two 
children: Margaret May, born on the 23d of July, 1913; and Glenn 
Wallace, born October 2, 1914. 

	Mr. Flickinger is a republican and is at present serving as 
states attorney of Potter county, in which office he is proving very 
capable and aggressive. For three years, from the 1st of May, 1911, to 
the 1st of May, 1914, he was city auditor of Gettysburg, and was 
secretary of the Chautauqua Association in 1915. He attends the 
Methodist Episcopal church and gives his support to those movements 
which seek the moral advancement of his community. Fraternally he 
belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows lodge, of which he is 
noble grand; the Modern Brotherhood of America; and the Modern Woodmen 
of America. He is a member of the board of managers of the local 
organization of the last named order and has served as its 
representative at the state camp. He has won a high place in the 
estimation of his fellow citizens and has gained many warm personal 
friends since removing to Gettysburg.