h/o Mary F Leedy
Birth: 2nd of five known children in Almont, Lepeer county, Michigan
NOTE: This is first of three John Hagar Flanigans in Carthage from 1857 for well over one hundred years, till 1976.
Parents removed to Jasper county, Missouri following Civil War, around 1866 from Atchison county in the northwest corner of Missouri, near Maryville. Removed with family to a 200 acre farm southwest of Carthage following Civil War, then the Grasshopper Plague of 1866 reportedly caused his father, James, to trade 40 acres for a home on east 4th street in town of Carthage.
Census: 1870, age 14, Sarcoxie township, Jasper county, Missouri with parents, one older & two Missouri born younger siblings, father a merchant.
Reportedly, John returned to Michigan for a short spell, them back to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1880, age 23, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & three younger siblings, father, city marshall, living on east 4th street.
John Hager Flanigan, was first of three so named, ~ ~ gaining his legal shingle from Jasper County Bar in 1881, was an outstanding orator, elected to state house in 1889, a leading attorney who partnered with the likes of Thomas Bond Haughwout, George T Perry, George E Booth, T C Tadlock his son John Hager Flanigan. His father's nickname also found a home with him, "Fire Alarm".
Started his law practice May 1881 in Carthage to become one of oldest family law firms in Missouri in 2012.
Census: 1900, age 42, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife and two living of three born children, at 713 Fulton street.
Death: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Father: James Flanigan b: 2 MAY 1831 County, Cavan, Ireland
Mother: Olive Marie Hager b: about 1831 New York
Marriage: Mary F Leedy b: DEC 1855 in Springfield, Greene county, Missouri
Married: May 1883, likely in Greene county, Missouri
Known Children (3 born)
John Hagar Flanigan JUL 1889 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Lon Flanigan b: JAN 1894 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
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In May of 1905 the Carthage Press published a special edition of the newspaper focusing on and show-casing many Carthage citizens. The article below is an excerpt from it.
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
SPECIAL EDITION MAY 1905
JOHN H. FLANIGAN - CRIMINAL LAWYER
A Leader at the Bar of Jasper County, a Politician of State Repute and a Citizen of High Esteem
John H. Flanigan, one of the leaders at the Jasper county bar, was born July 3, 1857, in Almont, Michigan. His father was brought to American fro Ireland when a mere infant. He came to Carthage when the subject of this sketch was nine years old and settled upon a farm. Mr. Flanigan attended the common schools of this county and at an early age began teaching school. He studied law without a preceptor and was admitted to the bar when 21 years of age by the Jasper county circuit court.
Mr. Flanigan opened an office and began the practice of his profession immediately after being admitted. In 1881 he was chosen city attorney for Carthage, and in 1889 he was elected as a representative to the Missouri State Legislature. Though he has been an active Republican all his life these are the only public offices he has ever held. Each and every campaign finds him an ardent and enthusiastic worker for the party, and as an orator and public speaker he has no superior in the state. He is a valued counselor in all political gatherings and he has always manifested an active interest in the affairs of the party. For four years he was a member of the executive committee of the National Republican League, and he has attended three national conventions. Mr. Flanigan was the floor leader of the Missouri House of Representatives during the session of the 35th general assembly. Because of his able manner in handling the various questions which arose daily and his ever ready response to the retorts of Champ Clark and other distinguished Democratic members, he was given the sobriquet of "Fire Alarm Flanigan."
Mr. Flanigan has achieved considerable success at the bar of Jasper county and of the state in the trial of criminal cases. His keen, analytical mind and his pungent and penetrating expression finds a response when he is addressing a jury, which operates greatly to his advantage in the trial of important cases. He is able and aggressive; unrelenting in the prosecution or defense of one charged with crime, and yet charitable and sympathetic, he is considered one of the shrewdest criminal lawyers in Southwest Missouri.
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Below is Excerpts from;
Biographical Record of Jasper County
by Malcolm McGregor
JOHN H. FLANIGAN
Was held in very high esteem among his legal peers and was very prominent in public affairs of the community.
John Flanigan was born in Almont, Michigan July 3, 1857.
His father, James Flanigan, was a native of the Emerald Isle, and in early boyhood became a resident of the United States.
He married Olive M. Hogan (sic), a native of New York and a daughter of Jonas Hogan (sic). James Flanigan was a farmer by occupation and in 1866 removed from Almont, Michigan to Jasper County, locating upon a farm which he made his home for a number of years, when he then moved into Carthage. His wife died in Carthage in 1893.
John H. Flanigan spent his boyhood upon the farm and for a time attended district schools, but later became a student in the public schools in town, graduating from Carthage High School.
In 1874 he returned to Michigan, where he was employed on a farm and in various other ways, spending eight years in his native state. He then again came to Jasper County, and after working as a farm hand for a brief time, he was again back in Carthage and after a brief interval began studying law under the direction of T. B. Hargrant.
On the 25th of March, 1881 he was admitted to the bar and immediately afterward he began his law practice in Carthage, where he soon established a good business as an attorney.
On the 6th of May, 1883 Mr. Flanigan wedded Miss Mary F. Leedy of Springfield, Missouri. She was a daughter of A. G. Leedy, a prominent architect and builder.
They were the parents of two sons, John H. and Lon P. Flanigan.
Socially, Mr. Flanigan belongs to the Knights of Phythias and was a politically a stalwart Republican. As the nominee of his party he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature, and twice was the candidate of choice for the Republican party, but the Democratic majority of Jasper County was too great and he lost the election to his democratic challenger.
He actively engaged in his law practice and his clientage was of a distinctively representative character that connected hi with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of his district.
It is said he was a deep and logical reasoner, strong in argument and forceful in reasoning, and in the trial of his causes won many notable forensic victories.
Birth: 2nd of five known children in Almont, Lepeer county, Michigan
NOTE: This is first of three John Hagar Flanigans in Carthage from 1857 for well over one hundred years, till 1976.
Parents removed to Jasper county, Missouri following Civil War, around 1866 from Atchison county in the northwest corner of Missouri, near Maryville. Removed with family to a 200 acre farm southwest of Carthage following Civil War, then the Grasshopper Plague of 1866 reportedly caused his father, James, to trade 40 acres for a home on east 4th street in town of Carthage.
Census: 1870, age 14, Sarcoxie township, Jasper county, Missouri with parents, one older & two Missouri born younger siblings, father a merchant.
Reportedly, John returned to Michigan for a short spell, them back to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1880, age 23, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & three younger siblings, father, city marshall, living on east 4th street.
John Hager Flanigan, was first of three so named, ~ ~ gaining his legal shingle from Jasper County Bar in 1881, was an outstanding orator, elected to state house in 1889, a leading attorney who partnered with the likes of Thomas Bond Haughwout, George T Perry, George E Booth, T C Tadlock his son John Hager Flanigan. His father's nickname also found a home with him, "Fire Alarm".
Started his law practice May 1881 in Carthage to become one of oldest family law firms in Missouri in 2012.
Census: 1900, age 42, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife and two living of three born children, at 713 Fulton street.
Death: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Father: James Flanigan b: 2 MAY 1831 County, Cavan, Ireland
Mother: Olive Marie Hager b: about 1831 New York
Marriage: Mary F Leedy b: DEC 1855 in Springfield, Greene county, Missouri
Married: May 1883, likely in Greene county, Missouri
Known Children (3 born)
John Hagar Flanigan JUL 1889 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Lon Flanigan b: JAN 1894 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
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In May of 1905 the Carthage Press published a special edition of the newspaper focusing on and show-casing many Carthage citizens. The article below is an excerpt from it.
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
SPECIAL EDITION MAY 1905
JOHN H. FLANIGAN - CRIMINAL LAWYER
A Leader at the Bar of Jasper County, a Politician of State Repute and a Citizen of High Esteem
John H. Flanigan, one of the leaders at the Jasper county bar, was born July 3, 1857, in Almont, Michigan. His father was brought to American fro Ireland when a mere infant. He came to Carthage when the subject of this sketch was nine years old and settled upon a farm. Mr. Flanigan attended the common schools of this county and at an early age began teaching school. He studied law without a preceptor and was admitted to the bar when 21 years of age by the Jasper county circuit court.
Mr. Flanigan opened an office and began the practice of his profession immediately after being admitted. In 1881 he was chosen city attorney for Carthage, and in 1889 he was elected as a representative to the Missouri State Legislature. Though he has been an active Republican all his life these are the only public offices he has ever held. Each and every campaign finds him an ardent and enthusiastic worker for the party, and as an orator and public speaker he has no superior in the state. He is a valued counselor in all political gatherings and he has always manifested an active interest in the affairs of the party. For four years he was a member of the executive committee of the National Republican League, and he has attended three national conventions. Mr. Flanigan was the floor leader of the Missouri House of Representatives during the session of the 35th general assembly. Because of his able manner in handling the various questions which arose daily and his ever ready response to the retorts of Champ Clark and other distinguished Democratic members, he was given the sobriquet of "Fire Alarm Flanigan."
Mr. Flanigan has achieved considerable success at the bar of Jasper county and of the state in the trial of criminal cases. His keen, analytical mind and his pungent and penetrating expression finds a response when he is addressing a jury, which operates greatly to his advantage in the trial of important cases. He is able and aggressive; unrelenting in the prosecution or defense of one charged with crime, and yet charitable and sympathetic, he is considered one of the shrewdest criminal lawyers in Southwest Missouri.
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Below is Excerpts from;
Biographical Record of Jasper County
by Malcolm McGregor
JOHN H. FLANIGAN
Was held in very high esteem among his legal peers and was very prominent in public affairs of the community.
John Flanigan was born in Almont, Michigan July 3, 1857.
His father, James Flanigan, was a native of the Emerald Isle, and in early boyhood became a resident of the United States.
He married Olive M. Hogan (sic), a native of New York and a daughter of Jonas Hogan (sic). James Flanigan was a farmer by occupation and in 1866 removed from Almont, Michigan to Jasper County, locating upon a farm which he made his home for a number of years, when he then moved into Carthage. His wife died in Carthage in 1893.
John H. Flanigan spent his boyhood upon the farm and for a time attended district schools, but later became a student in the public schools in town, graduating from Carthage High School.
In 1874 he returned to Michigan, where he was employed on a farm and in various other ways, spending eight years in his native state. He then again came to Jasper County, and after working as a farm hand for a brief time, he was again back in Carthage and after a brief interval began studying law under the direction of T. B. Hargrant.
On the 25th of March, 1881 he was admitted to the bar and immediately afterward he began his law practice in Carthage, where he soon established a good business as an attorney.
On the 6th of May, 1883 Mr. Flanigan wedded Miss Mary F. Leedy of Springfield, Missouri. She was a daughter of A. G. Leedy, a prominent architect and builder.
They were the parents of two sons, John H. and Lon P. Flanigan.
Socially, Mr. Flanigan belongs to the Knights of Phythias and was a politically a stalwart Republican. As the nominee of his party he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature, and twice was the candidate of choice for the Republican party, but the Democratic majority of Jasper County was too great and he lost the election to his democratic challenger.
He actively engaged in his law practice and his clientage was of a distinctively representative character that connected hi with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of his district.
It is said he was a deep and logical reasoner, strong in argument and forceful in reasoning, and in the trial of his causes won many notable forensic victories.
h/o Mary F Leedy
Birth: 2nd of five known children in Almont, Lepeer county, Michigan
NOTE: This is first of three John Hagar Flanigans in Carthage from 1857 for well over one hundred years, till 1976.
Parents removed to Jasper county, Missouri following Civil War, around 1866 from Atchison county in the northwest corner of Missouri, near Maryville. Removed with family to a 200 acre farm southwest of Carthage following Civil War, then the Grasshopper Plague of 1866 reportedly caused his father, James, to trade 40 acres for a home on east 4th street in town of Carthage.
Census: 1870, age 14, Sarcoxie township, Jasper county, Missouri with parents, one older & two Missouri born younger siblings, father a merchant.
Reportedly, John returned to Michigan for a short spell, them back to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1880, age 23, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & three younger siblings, father, city marshall, living on east 4th street.
John Hager Flanigan, was first of three so named, ~ ~ gaining his legal shingle from Jasper County Bar in 1881, was an outstanding orator, elected to state house in 1889, a leading attorney who partnered with the likes of Thomas Bond Haughwout, George T Perry, George E Booth, T C Tadlock his son John Hager Flanigan. His father's nickname also found a home with him, "Fire Alarm".
Started his law practice May 1881 in Carthage to become one of oldest family law firms in Missouri in 2012.
Census: 1900, age 42, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife and two living of three born children, at 713 Fulton street.
Death: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Father: James Flanigan b: 2 MAY 1831 County, Cavan, Ireland
Mother: Olive Marie Hager b: about 1831 New York
Marriage: Mary F Leedy b: DEC 1855 in Springfield, Greene county, Missouri
Married: May 1883, likely in Greene county, Missouri
Known Children (3 born)
John Hagar Flanigan JUL 1889 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Lon Flanigan b: JAN 1894 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
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In May of 1905 the Carthage Press published a special edition of the newspaper focusing on and show-casing many Carthage citizens. The article below is an excerpt from it.
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
SPECIAL EDITION MAY 1905
JOHN H. FLANIGAN - CRIMINAL LAWYER
A Leader at the Bar of Jasper County, a Politician of State Repute and a Citizen of High Esteem
John H. Flanigan, one of the leaders at the Jasper county bar, was born July 3, 1857, in Almont, Michigan. His father was brought to American fro Ireland when a mere infant. He came to Carthage when the subject of this sketch was nine years old and settled upon a farm. Mr. Flanigan attended the common schools of this county and at an early age began teaching school. He studied law without a preceptor and was admitted to the bar when 21 years of age by the Jasper county circuit court.
Mr. Flanigan opened an office and began the practice of his profession immediately after being admitted. In 1881 he was chosen city attorney for Carthage, and in 1889 he was elected as a representative to the Missouri State Legislature. Though he has been an active Republican all his life these are the only public offices he has ever held. Each and every campaign finds him an ardent and enthusiastic worker for the party, and as an orator and public speaker he has no superior in the state. He is a valued counselor in all political gatherings and he has always manifested an active interest in the affairs of the party. For four years he was a member of the executive committee of the National Republican League, and he has attended three national conventions. Mr. Flanigan was the floor leader of the Missouri House of Representatives during the session of the 35th general assembly. Because of his able manner in handling the various questions which arose daily and his ever ready response to the retorts of Champ Clark and other distinguished Democratic members, he was given the sobriquet of "Fire Alarm Flanigan."
Mr. Flanigan has achieved considerable success at the bar of Jasper county and of the state in the trial of criminal cases. His keen, analytical mind and his pungent and penetrating expression finds a response when he is addressing a jury, which operates greatly to his advantage in the trial of important cases. He is able and aggressive; unrelenting in the prosecution or defense of one charged with crime, and yet charitable and sympathetic, he is considered one of the shrewdest criminal lawyers in Southwest Missouri.
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Below is Excerpts from;
Biographical Record of Jasper County
by Malcolm McGregor
JOHN H. FLANIGAN
Was held in very high esteem among his legal peers and was very prominent in public affairs of the community.
John Flanigan was born in Almont, Michigan July 3, 1857.
His father, James Flanigan, was a native of the Emerald Isle, and in early boyhood became a resident of the United States.
He married Olive M. Hogan (sic), a native of New York and a daughter of Jonas Hogan (sic). James Flanigan was a farmer by occupation and in 1866 removed from Almont, Michigan to Jasper County, locating upon a farm which he made his home for a number of years, when he then moved into Carthage. His wife died in Carthage in 1893.
John H. Flanigan spent his boyhood upon the farm and for a time attended district schools, but later became a student in the public schools in town, graduating from Carthage High School.
In 1874 he returned to Michigan, where he was employed on a farm and in various other ways, spending eight years in his native state. He then again came to Jasper County, and after working as a farm hand for a brief time, he was again back in Carthage and after a brief interval began studying law under the direction of T. B. Hargrant.
On the 25th of March, 1881 he was admitted to the bar and immediately afterward he began his law practice in Carthage, where he soon established a good business as an attorney.
On the 6th of May, 1883 Mr. Flanigan wedded Miss Mary F. Leedy of Springfield, Missouri. She was a daughter of A. G. Leedy, a prominent architect and builder.
They were the parents of two sons, John H. and Lon P. Flanigan.
Socially, Mr. Flanigan belongs to the Knights of Phythias and was a politically a stalwart Republican. As the nominee of his party he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature, and twice was the candidate of choice for the Republican party, but the Democratic majority of Jasper County was too great and he lost the election to his democratic challenger.
He actively engaged in his law practice and his clientage was of a distinctively representative character that connected hi with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of his district.
It is said he was a deep and logical reasoner, strong in argument and forceful in reasoning, and in the trial of his causes won many notable forensic victories.
Birth: 2nd of five known children in Almont, Lepeer county, Michigan
NOTE: This is first of three John Hagar Flanigans in Carthage from 1857 for well over one hundred years, till 1976.
Parents removed to Jasper county, Missouri following Civil War, around 1866 from Atchison county in the northwest corner of Missouri, near Maryville. Removed with family to a 200 acre farm southwest of Carthage following Civil War, then the Grasshopper Plague of 1866 reportedly caused his father, James, to trade 40 acres for a home on east 4th street in town of Carthage.
Census: 1870, age 14, Sarcoxie township, Jasper county, Missouri with parents, one older & two Missouri born younger siblings, father a merchant.
Reportedly, John returned to Michigan for a short spell, them back to Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
Census: 1880, age 23, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with parents & three younger siblings, father, city marshall, living on east 4th street.
John Hager Flanigan, was first of three so named, ~ ~ gaining his legal shingle from Jasper County Bar in 1881, was an outstanding orator, elected to state house in 1889, a leading attorney who partnered with the likes of Thomas Bond Haughwout, George T Perry, George E Booth, T C Tadlock his son John Hager Flanigan. His father's nickname also found a home with him, "Fire Alarm".
Started his law practice May 1881 in Carthage to become one of oldest family law firms in Missouri in 2012.
Census: 1900, age 42, Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri with wife and two living of three born children, at 713 Fulton street.
Death: Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Father: James Flanigan b: 2 MAY 1831 County, Cavan, Ireland
Mother: Olive Marie Hager b: about 1831 New York
Marriage: Mary F Leedy b: DEC 1855 in Springfield, Greene county, Missouri
Married: May 1883, likely in Greene county, Missouri
Known Children (3 born)
John Hagar Flanigan JUL 1889 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
Lon Flanigan b: JAN 1894 Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri
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In May of 1905 the Carthage Press published a special edition of the newspaper focusing on and show-casing many Carthage citizens. The article below is an excerpt from it.
CARTHAGE EVENING PRESS
SPECIAL EDITION MAY 1905
JOHN H. FLANIGAN - CRIMINAL LAWYER
A Leader at the Bar of Jasper County, a Politician of State Repute and a Citizen of High Esteem
John H. Flanigan, one of the leaders at the Jasper county bar, was born July 3, 1857, in Almont, Michigan. His father was brought to American fro Ireland when a mere infant. He came to Carthage when the subject of this sketch was nine years old and settled upon a farm. Mr. Flanigan attended the common schools of this county and at an early age began teaching school. He studied law without a preceptor and was admitted to the bar when 21 years of age by the Jasper county circuit court.
Mr. Flanigan opened an office and began the practice of his profession immediately after being admitted. In 1881 he was chosen city attorney for Carthage, and in 1889 he was elected as a representative to the Missouri State Legislature. Though he has been an active Republican all his life these are the only public offices he has ever held. Each and every campaign finds him an ardent and enthusiastic worker for the party, and as an orator and public speaker he has no superior in the state. He is a valued counselor in all political gatherings and he has always manifested an active interest in the affairs of the party. For four years he was a member of the executive committee of the National Republican League, and he has attended three national conventions. Mr. Flanigan was the floor leader of the Missouri House of Representatives during the session of the 35th general assembly. Because of his able manner in handling the various questions which arose daily and his ever ready response to the retorts of Champ Clark and other distinguished Democratic members, he was given the sobriquet of "Fire Alarm Flanigan."
Mr. Flanigan has achieved considerable success at the bar of Jasper county and of the state in the trial of criminal cases. His keen, analytical mind and his pungent and penetrating expression finds a response when he is addressing a jury, which operates greatly to his advantage in the trial of important cases. He is able and aggressive; unrelenting in the prosecution or defense of one charged with crime, and yet charitable and sympathetic, he is considered one of the shrewdest criminal lawyers in Southwest Missouri.
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Below is Excerpts from;
Biographical Record of Jasper County
by Malcolm McGregor
JOHN H. FLANIGAN
Was held in very high esteem among his legal peers and was very prominent in public affairs of the community.
John Flanigan was born in Almont, Michigan July 3, 1857.
His father, James Flanigan, was a native of the Emerald Isle, and in early boyhood became a resident of the United States.
He married Olive M. Hogan (sic), a native of New York and a daughter of Jonas Hogan (sic). James Flanigan was a farmer by occupation and in 1866 removed from Almont, Michigan to Jasper County, locating upon a farm which he made his home for a number of years, when he then moved into Carthage. His wife died in Carthage in 1893.
John H. Flanigan spent his boyhood upon the farm and for a time attended district schools, but later became a student in the public schools in town, graduating from Carthage High School.
In 1874 he returned to Michigan, where he was employed on a farm and in various other ways, spending eight years in his native state. He then again came to Jasper County, and after working as a farm hand for a brief time, he was again back in Carthage and after a brief interval began studying law under the direction of T. B. Hargrant.
On the 25th of March, 1881 he was admitted to the bar and immediately afterward he began his law practice in Carthage, where he soon established a good business as an attorney.
On the 6th of May, 1883 Mr. Flanigan wedded Miss Mary F. Leedy of Springfield, Missouri. She was a daughter of A. G. Leedy, a prominent architect and builder.
They were the parents of two sons, John H. and Lon P. Flanigan.
Socially, Mr. Flanigan belongs to the Knights of Phythias and was a politically a stalwart Republican. As the nominee of his party he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature, and twice was the candidate of choice for the Republican party, but the Democratic majority of Jasper County was too great and he lost the election to his democratic challenger.
He actively engaged in his law practice and his clientage was of a distinctively representative character that connected hi with much of the important litigation tried in the courts of his district.
It is said he was a deep and logical reasoner, strong in argument and forceful in reasoning, and in the trial of his causes won many notable forensic victories.
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