JAMES H. FLYNT, a native of Franklin, New York, came to Superior City in 1856, where he engaged in surveying until 1861; then enlisted in the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry and served four years. Since 1865, he has been engaged in the jewelry business; two years in Albany, New York; two years at Shelby, Ohio; and in South Bend, Indiana, until 1872, since which time he has conducted a jewelry store at this place [St. Louis County, Minnesota].
SOURCE: Newton Horace Winchell, Edward Duffield Neill & John Fletcher Williams History of the upper Mississippi Valley, p. 690