JOHN FLINT is another well-known pioneer of Pottawattamie County. He cast his lot here in 1856, and has since made this place his home.

Mr. Flint was born in Madison County, Ohio, August 28, 1838, son of Samuel Flint, who was of English extraction and a native of New Hamphire. Samuel Flint married Miss Nancy Dominy, who was born in New York, a descendant of English ancestors. After their marriage they removed, in 1834, to Madison County, Ohio, where the mother died, leaving nine children, when John, the youngest, was six years old. Six years later the father died. All the children grew to adult age.

For two years John was engaged in boating on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers with his brother, H. M. He afterward went to La Salle County, Illinois, where he worked by the month on a farm two years and where he attended the commmon schools in winter.

In 1856 Mr. Flint came to Pottawattamie County. In 1857 or '58, he entered a quarter section of land in Wright Township, which is now owned by Samuel Passmore.

In 1860, in company with his brother Hannibal and others, he went to Pikes's Peak on the hunt for gold, and prospected the most of the summer, failing to make it pay.

In 1861 he bought his present farm, 178 acres on Section 11, Waveland Township. A part of this farm is timber land. During the years of his residence here Mr. Flint has made great improvements in his place. He has a good frame house, 26 x 32 feet, situated on a natural building site and surrounded by shade and ornamental trees. Other improvements are a barn, sheds, yards, feed-lots and an orchard and grove. The school-house of District No. 1 is located only a few rods from his house, and it is a pleasant drive of three miles from his home to Griswold. Like many other farmers of this county, Mr. Flint's attention is divided between stock-raising and cultivating the soil.

During the late war he served eight months and a half in the Thirteenth Iowa Infantry, Company B.

Mr. Flint was united in marriage, January 18, 1863, to Miss Mary E. Pierson, a native of Shelby County, Indiana. She was ten years old when her parents, Joseph and Sarah Pierson, came to Pottawattamie County, where she was educated and grew to woman-hood. Her father died in Griswold, where her mother still resides.

Mr. and Mrs. Flint have seven children: Delia A., wife of John W. McCaskey, of Waveland Township; Alvin also of Waveland Township; Warren, Rhoda, Ada E., Ida M. and Edna.

Mr. Flint is a Democrat. He has served officially in the township at different times, but never aspired to political distinction. He is a member of the I.O.O.F., Nashnabotna Lodge, No. 409, of Griswold.

Mrs. Flint is a worthy member of the Christian Church, as is also one of her daughters. Two other daughters are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Mr. Flint is frank and cordial in his manner, broad and progressive in his views, and is well known throughout the county.

Contributed By: Mona Sarratt-Knight