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FLANAGAN, ROGER (1845-1921)

FLANAGAN, ROGER, retail merchant and hotel operator; b. Laketon, Kent Co., N.B., 14 Feb 1845, s/o Martin Flanagan and Mary Deagan; brother of Thomas Flanagan; m. 1st, 1871, Ellen Keating, of Chatham, d/o John Keating and Ann Burns, natives of Ireland, and 2nd, 1885, Mary Henry, d/o John Henry; d. Chatham, 11 Mar 1921.

At the time of his birth, and for many years afterwards, Roger Flanagan's parents kept a roadhouse for the travelling public midway between Chatham and Richibucto.

Flanagan moved to Chatham around the time of his first marriage in 1871 and was a retail merchant in the town for more than thirty years. In 1884 he was one of the incorporators of the Miramichi Steam Navigation Co., of which John P. Burchill was president. In 1894, while still conducting a store, he was involved in the management of the Adams House hotel, which was owned by his brother Thomas Flanagan. He entered the hotel business full time in 1903 when he leased the Bowser House from his brother, and he conducted it until his death seventeen years later. He was "a genial host, solicitous for the comfort of his guests," but like several other hotel keepers on the Miramichi in that era he ran afoul of the Canada Temperance Act. When he was convicted of his third offence in 1898 (a bottle of brandy having been sold over the desk at the hotel by the clerk on duty), he was sentenced to sixty days in jail. The imposing of a jail sentence on such a prominent resident of the town was considered to be outrageous by all but the temperance zealots, however, and his conviction was later overturned by the Supreme Court.

Flanagan stated in 1900 that he had served a total of eighteen years on the County Council. Between 1896 and 1905 he was a member of the Almshouse Commission. In 1903 he was the first among twelve men selected as a committee of management for the construction of St Michael's Cathedral in Chatham.

Flanagan's first wife, Ellen Keating, died in 1882, at age twenty-eight. Five children survived his second wife, "Molly" Henry, when she died, at age fifty-five, in 1909. A daughter, Anna I. Flanagan, was the first wife of W. Parker Hickey. A son, Vincent Flanagan, died at the Bowser House in 1917 from injuries received overseas in World War I.

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[b] census [m] official records; church records [d] Advocate 15 Mar 1921 / Advance 17 Jan 1901, 1 Jan 1903; Advocate 23 Dec 1896, 7 Jun 1898, 28 Jun 1898, 8 Nov 1898, 11 Feb 1899, 29 Mar 1905, 15 Sep 1909, 15 Nov 1917; Fraser (C); Leader 14 Jul 1993; tombstone; World 3 Dec 1884, 24 Mar 1900


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