Charles Wesley Flint (November 14, 1878 – December 12, 1964) was a Canadian-born educator and

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of the

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in the United States.

Early life

Charles Wesley Flint was born in Canada to George and Eliza Flint and was the youngest of four children. He graduated from the University of Toronto and went on to study at Drew Theological Seminary and Columbia University.

Career

Flint began his Methodist ministry in the Northwest Conference of the Iowa at the age of 21. In 1915, Flint was serving as the pastor of the New York Avenue Methodist church in

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. On June 15 of that year, he was elected president of

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. He was inaugurated on November 19. He was the

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of Cornell College for seven years (1915–22), then was the fifth

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from 1922 until his election as a bishop. During his time as chancellor, he served as an advisor to the

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chapter at Syracuse University.

Publications

Flint wrote a biography of

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in 1957.

Personal life

Flint married Clara Yetter in 1901; they had a daughter, Dr Lois Flint and a son, George Y. Flint, who served as a Methodist minister in Ohio, New Jersey and Maryland.

References

External links

Cornell archive
1878 births 1964 deaths American Methodist bishops Presidents of Syracuse University Bishops of The Methodist Church (USA) 20th-century Methodist bishops {{US-bishop-stub