Fayette County PA Archives Biographies.....Flanigan, Rev David November 10, 1850 - ????
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Marta Burns marta43@juno.com September 21, 2024, 1:35 pm

Source: Gresham and Wiley, 1889: Biographical & Portrait Cyclopedia, Fayette Co, PA, page 333
Author: John H. Gresham & Samuel T. Wiley

    Rev David Flanigan, an agreeable, energetic and talented minister of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Dawson, is a son of Clark Flanigan and
Martha Roberts Flanigan, and was born in Henry Clay township, Fayette
county, Penna, November 10, 1850.
    His grandfather, Andrew Flanigan, was born in what is now Henry Clay
township, and died in 1867.  He was a farmer, a soldier in the War of
1812, and kept a hotel for many years at Jockey Valley on the National
Road where he owned the valuable Jockey Valley farm.
    His father, Clark Flanigan, is a native of Henry Clay township where he
owns a good farm.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, has
served as school director and filled various other township offices.  
    He is seventy eight years old, is active for his years, and is well
liked by his neighbors.  He married Miss Martha Roberts, a niece of the
celebrated Richard Roberts.
    Rev David Flanigan was reared on a farm, educated in the common schools,
normal schools of Somerset county, and Smithfield and Terra Alta
academies.  He taught his home school for four successive years, and was
licensed to preach in the spring of 1879, by the Rev J H Miller of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
    In the fall of the same year he was given work by the West Virginia
Methodist Episcopal Conference and was sent as a supply to the
Grantsville chart in Maryland where he remained three years.  Rev Flanigan
was next sent to the Albrightsville charge in Preston county, West
Virginia, and the next year on account of his wife's ill health, was
transferred to Brandonville where he remained for two years.
    In 1885 asked for and received a certificate of location and became a
member of the Pittsburgh Conference.  His first field of service in
Pennsylvania was Addison charge in Somerset county, served two years, and
was sent in October, 1877, to his present charge at Dawson.
    In 1880 he married Miss Sallie Tissue, daughter of Charles and Amy
Tissue of Henry Clay township.  To them have been born three children:
Gratta Lee Flanigan, born at Grantsville, Maryland; Wilbur Dwight
Flanigan, born at Brandonville, West Virginia; and Mary E Flanigan, born
at Dawson, Penna.
    Rev David Flanigan is pleasant and courteous in manner and in the pulpit
he is logical, earnest and forcible.  


Additional Comments:
Originally submitted 2000.

This file has been created by a form at http://www.usgwarchives.net/pafiles/

File size: 3.0 Kb