“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  
Western Historical Company.   1879.


HON. H. FLINN, nurseryman and farmer, Sec. 8;  P.O. Watertown; born 
March 7, 1825, in Leesville, Lawrence Co., Ind.; moved to Illinois in 
1830 with his parents, who located in Paris, where he learned his 
profession of nurseryman.  In 1848, he came to Wisconsin and settled in 
Watertown Township, Jefferson Co.; bought two and one-half acres and 
afterward five acres of land near the College; then ten acres on Silver 
Creek, when he sold the first two pieces.  About 1858, he bought ninety-
nine acres of prairie and timber land, a tavern stand and ferryboat in 
Iowa, and sold it within six days.  In 1859, he bought 120 acres in Iowa 
for $600, and within a year, sold it for $1,200; then bought forty acres 
near Columbia, Wis., and sold it at an advance of $150.  In 1860, bought 
160 acres near Delton, on Webster Prairie, and sold it at a loss of over 
$800.  In 1874, bought his nursery grounds and farm of sixty-two acres, 
on which he raises all kinds of fruit and shade trees and evergreens 
suitable to this climate; on the farm, he raises all kinds of grain and 
stock.  Married Miss Annice Frost, of Hustisford, Wis., March 10, 1850; 
had eight children – Eunice (now Mrs. Squiers), Alvy N., Harriet (now 
Mrs. Hurtubise), Annie, Eudora, Viola, Benjamin and William S. (who 
died at 9 years of age).  Mr. Flinn was Mayor of Watertown for 1873 and 
1874; was employed in the Quartermaster’s department in St. Louis from 
1864 till the close of the war; member of Assembly for 1877, 1878, and 
is for 1879; was elected the first time without opposition, polling 2.034 
votes.  In 1879, he received 819 against 534 for J. Gibb (Independent 
Democrat), 5,387 for Shennick (Independent Democrat), and 183 for 
S.S. Woodworth (Greenbacker).  He was Alderman of the Third Ward 
for 1877.


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