1860
Joseph Nelson Flint, son of Joseph and Susan (Phillips) Flint, was born in South Dansville, Steuben County, N. Y., June 16, 1838, and entered college from Canaseraga, N. Y., in the adjoining county of Allegany. He was a member of the military company formed in his class after the fall of Fort Sumter, which drilled until graduation, but he did not enter the army at once, teaching mathematics for a year at Kingston Academy, Kingston, N. Y.
In August, 1862, he enlisted in the Union army as a private in the i30th New York Volunteer Infantry, which the next year was transferred to the cavalry service and became known as the First New York Dragoons. He remained in service through the war, attained the rank of First Lieutenant, January 1, 1865, and the following April was brevetted Captain. In 1864 he served on the staff of General Philip H. Sheridan. His regiment, of which he prepared a brief history in 1865. took part in forty-five engagements and was with General Grant in the march on Richmond.
At the close of the war Captain Flint began teaching again, and for years conducted a successful preparatory school for both sexes in Virginia City, Nevada, also occasionally contributing to the newspapers articles on education. In 1886 he removed to San Francisco, and after engaging for a time in teaching and journalism, became a clerk in the naval office of the United States Custom House. Here he remained until the close of his life, finding his work congenial and enjoying in his leisure hours returning to the study of mathematics and the Greek and Latin poets.
He died at San Rafael, Cal., July 30, 1907, in his 69th year. He was never married.
Source: Obituary Record Of Graduates Of Yale University, Deceased from June, 1900, to June 1910, By Yale University, 1910; Pg. 896
