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FLINT, TIMOTHY (1780-1840)

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FLINT, See also:TIMOTHY (1780-1840) , See also:American clergyman and writer, was See also:born in See also:Reading, See also:Massachusetts, on the 11th of See also:July 1789. He graduated at Harvard in 1800, and in 1802 settled as a Congregational See also:minister in Lunenburg, See also:Mass., where he pursued scientific studies with' See also:interest; and his labours in his chemical laboratory seemed so See also:strange to the See also:people of that fetired region, that some persons supposed and asserted that he was engaged in See also:counterfeiting. This, together with See also:political See also:differences, led to disagreeable complications, which resulted in his resigning his See also:charge (1814) and becoming a missionary (1815) in the valley of the See also:Mississippi. He was also for a See also:short See also:period a teacher and a See also:farmer. His observations on the See also:manners and See also:character of the settlers of the See also:Ohio and Mississippi valleys were recorded in a picturesque See also:work called Recollections of the Last Ten Years passed in the Valley of the Mississippi (1826; reprinted in See also:England and translated into See also:French), the first See also:account of the western states which brought to See also:light the real See also:life and character of the people. The success which this work met with, together with the failing See also:health of the writer, led him to relinquish his more active labours for See also:literary pursuits, and, besides editing the Western See also:Review in See also:Cincinnati from 1825 to 1828 and See also:Knickerbocker's See also:Magazine (New See also:York) in 1833, he published a number of books, including See also:Francis Berrian, or the Mexican Patriot (1826), his best novel; A Condensed See also:Geography and See also:History of the Western States, or the Mississippi Valley (2 vols., 1828); See also:Arthur Clenning (1828), a novel; and See also:Indian See also:Wars in the See also:West (1833). His See also:style is vivid, See also:plain and forcible, and his See also:matter interesting; and his See also:works on the western states are of See also:great value. He died in See also:Salem, Mass., on the 16th of See also:August 1840.

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