Yolo County Biographies


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Russell R. FLINT
 
A man who has done much toward the development of Yolo county is R. R. Flint, 
who as trustee of reclamation district No. 537, working in conjunction with the 
government, lent valuable assistance toward the reclamation of the bottom lands 
of Sacramento river.  His father, Daniel Flint, came to California in 1853 via 
Cape Horn, and established the pioneer hop yards of California.  (His 
biographical sketch appears on a separate page of this work.)  
 
Russell R. Flint was born in Sacramento, Cal., in 1859, and was educated in this 
city and at the California Military Academy at Oakland.  He later accepted a 
position as bookkeeper for the Friend & Terry Lumber Company of Sacramento, and 
subsequently, in 1884, took charge of his father�s ranch three miles north of 
Washington, which later on he purchased.  The property consists of one hundred 
and eighty-three acres, sixty of which are in hops and one hundred in alfalfa.  
This is considered the finest alfalfa land in California, in 1910 producing six 
crops without irrigation.  Subsequently he put in an irrigating plant for the 
hop yard and in 1912 the yield approximated three thousand pounds to the acre, 
dry, which make a gross yield of $600 per acre.
 
In 1890 Mr. Flint was united in marriage with Miss May Burnham, who was born in 
Sacramento, and whose father, Henry Burnham, came to California in 1850 via Cape 
Horn, from Gloucester, Mass.  For fifty years he was in the service of Friend & 
Terry Lumber Company of Sacramento, his death occurring in 1908.  Mr. Flint is a 
member of the Sutter Club and he is a Republican in politics.  His interest in 
behalf of the community in which he has so long resided never wavers, and he is 
conceded to be one of the most able citizens.
 
Transcribed by Bea Barton
Source:  �History of Yolo County, California� by Tom Gregory.  Published by the 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1913, page 804.