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FLANAGAN, THOMAS (1849-1908)

FLANAGAN, THOMAS, retail merchant and hotel owner and operator; b. Laketon, Kent Co., Apr 1849, s/o Martin Flanagan and Mary Deagan; brother of Roger Flanagan; m. 1878, Alice Henry, d/o John Henry; d. Chatham, 15 Jul 1908.

Thomas Flanagan opened a store in Chatham about 1875. In 1882 he announced that he had a Fairbank Scale and would weigh coal, hay, and the like on reasonable terms. In 1891 he was enumerated in the census as a dry-goods merchant. His store was located on Cunard Street in 1900, prior to his withdrawal from the retail field. Meanwhile, in 1886 he took over operation of the Adams House on a rental basis. Three years later he bought the hotel. He expanded it in 1890 and continued to conduct it until it burned to the ground in February 1899. He then replaced it with a new hotel by the same name. This was built by James M. Troy and was fully equipped with "electric lights and bells." In 1903 he also bought the Bowser House, of which his brother Roger Flanagan became leasee and manager.

Flanagan's wife, Alice Henry, died in 1897 at age thirty-nine, and he eleven years later at age fifty-nine. After his death, his brother continued to conduct the Bowser House, while proprietorship of the Adams House passed to John C. White, a former desk clerk, who was married to his niece Margaret Keating.

Flanagan sat on the County Council for a time and was among the founding directors of the Miramichi Exhibition Association in 1902. He and his wife were adherents of the Catholic church. They had a number of children who died in infancy or early childhood. C. Lillian Flanagan, their only daughter to live to maturity, was the wife of Edward J. Morris.

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[b] census [m] official records [d] church records / Advance 16 Feb 1899, 27 Sep 1900, 26 Jun 1902; Advocate 26 Sep 1899; Commercial 26 Sep 1899; Commercial World 8 Jun 1944 (re. John C. White); Fraser (C); Leader 17 Jul 1908; tombstone; World 18 Jan 1882, 13 Jun 1903


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