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Frederick C. Flint, broker and speculator of Rolla, and one of the prominent citizens of Phelps County, Mo., is a native of Steuben County, N. Y., and the son of Edward and Jane (Clute) Flint. The father was born in New York State, was of English descent, and was a farmer and blacksmith by occupation. In 1833 he moved to Crawford County, Ohio, and the following year to Lucas County, in 1835 to Jackson County, Mich., and in 1837 to Lake County, Ind. He died in 1860. His wife, Jane (Clute) Flint, was born in New York State, and died in 1865, at the age of seventy-two. They were the parents of ten children, Frederick C. being the fourth. He made his home with his parents and assisted on the farm until twenty-four years of age, when in 1841 he married Miss Caroline Morris, a native of New York, born in 1822. They have three children: Asa, Wilbur and Leonard. Wilbur is a grocery merchant in Rolla, and was born in Lake County, Ind., in 1852. At the age of thirteen he commenced working on the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne Railroad, where he remained seven years in the capacity of brakeman and conductor. He then worked three years in a saw-mill at Grand Rapids, Mich., four years for P. D. Armour in Chicago, one year on the dock in Chicago, and the past four years he has spent engaged in merchandising in Rolla. In 1887 he married Miss Mary Gift, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1859, and to them has been born one child, Carrie. Frederick C. Flint followed farming in Lake County, Ind., until 1865, when he sold out and moved to Valparaiso, where he engaged in merchandising. In 1874 he sold out and became a resident of Rolla, Mo., speculating in notes, etc. In 1867 he lost his wife, and he afterward married Miss Lizzie McDonald, a native of New York, born in 1857. Mr. Flint is a good business man and a well-to-do citizen. He is a stanch Republican, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.