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John Joseph Flinn
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

John Joseph Flinn

active Chicago, 1851 - 1929
BiographyLC name authority id no00082351
LC heading: Flinn, John J. (John Joseph), 1851-1929

Editor and lecturer

Biography:
Night editor St. Louis Globe, 1873. Afterward staff correspondent in legislature and constitutional convention for Globe-Democrat. Became associate editor of Chicago Daily News a few months after founding of that paper and remained with it 7 years.

Later was managing editor Chicago Mail and the Chicago Times. Editorial writer on Chicago Inter Ocean, 1898-1908. Editorial writer Christian Science Monitor from its founding, 1908-1919.

Compiled The Standard Guide to Chicago. Appointed United States consul to Chemnitz, Saxony, 1882, and during 2 years abroad contributed series of humorous letters to Chicago Morning News. First reader, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Winchester, Massachusetts (1911-1914).

Alderman, Evanston, Illinois, 3 terms. Appointed member Christian Science Board of Lectureship, June 1921. Home: Glencoe, Ill

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