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Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (politician)

December 03, 2023

This article is about the 19th-century politician. For his son, see Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (lawyer).

Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (November 25, 1846 – January 28, 1904) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessperson in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Flournoy served as a state senator representing the 12th Senatorial District in the West Virginia Senate (1885–1890) and served three terms as mayor of Romney, West Virginia. Flournoy unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the West Virginia Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination in 1900.

Honorable
Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy
Member of the West Virginia Senate
from the 12th district
In office
1885–1890
Serving with George Edmund Price
Preceded byJoseph Van Meter
Succeeded byHenry Bell Gilkeson
Personal details
Born(1846-11-25)November 25, 1846
Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States
DiedJanuary 28, 1904(1904-01-28) (aged 57)
Orlando, Florida, United States
Political partyDemocratic Party
SpouseFrances "Fannie" Ann Armstrong White
RelationsRichard W. Flournoy (father)
Sarah Parke Poindexter Flournoy (mother)
John Baker White (father-in-law)
Christian Streit White (brother-in-law)
Robert White (brother-in-law)
John Baker White (nephew)
Robert White (nephew)
ChildrenRichard Parke Flournoy
Harry Lightfoot Flournoy
Frances T. Flournoy Preston
Robert Baker Flournoy
Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy
Alexander White Flournoy
Residence(s)Romney, West Virginia
Charleston, West Virginia
Alma materHampden–Sydney College (B.A.)
Professionlawyer, politician, businessperson
Military service
Allegiance Confederate States of America
Branch/service Confederate States Army
Years of service1863–1865 (CSA)
Rankprivate
UnitCompany A, Otey Battery
13th Battalion Virginia Light Artillery
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

Flournoy was born in 1846 in Chesterfield County, Virginia. In 1863, during the American Civil War, he enlisted as a private in the Confederate States Army and served until the war's end in 1865. After graduating from Hampden–Sydney College in 1868, Flournoy taught school for four years while studying law. In 1870 he relocated to Romney, West Virginia, where he served as principal of the Potomac Academy. He was admitted to the bar in 1873, and afterward served on the Board of Regents for the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind (1876–1880). During his second term in the West Virginia Senate, Flournoy relocated to Charleston to practice law. He also engaged in several business ventures and was an incorporator of the Bank of Romney, the Tug and Guyandotte Railroad Company, the Bradford Building Company, the White Oak Mining Company, and the West Construction Company. Flournoy served on the Board of Trustees of Hampden–Sydney College from 1892 until his death in 1904.

Through his marriage to Frances "Fannie" Ann Armstrong White, Flournoy was a brother-in-law of West Virginia Attorney General Robert White and West Virginia Fish Commission President Christian Streit White, and the son-in-law of Hampshire County Clerk of Court John Baker White. Through his father, Flournoy was a relative of Thomas Flournoy, United States Representative from Virginia. Flournoy was the father of prominent Charleston lawyer Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy.

Early life and military career edit

Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy was born on November 25, 1846, in Chesterfield County, Virginia, 7 miles (11 km) from Richmond, and was the son of Richard W. Flournoy and his wife, Sarah Parke Poindexter Flournoy.[1][2][3][4] He had four siblings, two brothers and two sisters: Reverend Parke Poindexter Flournoy, Eliza Flournoy Ayler, Richard W. Flournoy, and Ellen Flournoy Thornton.[4] Flournoy was of English and French ancestry.[3] He was a relative of Thomas Flournoy, United States Representative from Virginia.[5] The majority of Flournoy's youth and early adulthood were spent in Richmond, where he attended the city's public schools.[1][2]

In 1863, during the American Civil War, Flournoy enlisted as a private in the Confederate States Army at the age of 17.[1][2] He served the entirety of his enlistment in Company A, Otey Battery, 13th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery in Richmond, throughout the course of the war until its end in 1865.[1][2][3]

Education and teaching career edit

Following the war, Flournoy entered Hampden–Sydney College in Hampden Sydney, Virginia, to pursue an education in classical studies.[1][2] His elder brother Parke Poindexter Flournoy had been an assistant professor at the college during the war.[4][6] Flournoy graduated with honors and a Bachelor of Arts from Hampden–Sydney College in 1868 and received the Speaker's Medal from the institution's Philanthropic Debating Society.[1][2][6][7] While attending Hampden–Sydney College, he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.[7] Following graduation, Flournoy taught school for four years while studying law.[1][2] Around 1870 he relocated to Romney, West Virginia, where he took charge as principal and taught at the Potomac Academy with "considerable success" and continued his law studies.[8][9][10] Flournoy was admitted to the bar in Romney in January 1873.[1][2][11]

Law and political careers edit

Romney law practice edit

 
Hampshire County Courthouse in Romney

Following his admission to the bar, Flournoy immediately began practicing law in Romney and "won merited distinction" in his field.[2] He became a prominent leader in the community and was elected as a member of the Romney Literary Society.[1][2][12] Flournoy served on the fourth Board of Regents of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind from 1876 to 1880.[13] He served three terms as mayor of Romney.[1][2][11] As his law career prospered, Flournoy was active in the establishment of The Society of the Ex-Confederate Soldiers in Hampshire County.[14] The society's missions were to obtain an accurate roster of Confederate veterans and to collect and preserve materials to maintain a "truthful" history of the American Civil War.[14] Flournoy and a group of Confederate veterans met at the Hampshire County Courthouse in Romney on July 31, 1883, where he was appointed secretary of the society.[14] The society's constitution was presented at its first annual reunion on September 5, 1883, at which time Flournoy was officially titled as the society's corresponding secretary.[14] Alexander W. Monroe was among the society's three concurrently-serving vice presidents.[14]

West Virginia Senate edit

Flournoy was elected to represent the 12th Senatorial District, consisting of Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, and Pendleton counties, in the West Virginia Senate in 1885 and was re-elected to the seat in 1889.[15][16][17][18] In the West Virginia state senatorial election on November 6, 1888, Flournoy defeated his Republican challenger S. G. Pownall with 5,578 votes to Pownall's 4,028 votes.[15] Following his election, Flournoy was selected as part of West Virginia's attending delegation to the inauguration of President Benjamin Harrison.[19][20] In his first term in the West Virginia Senate, Flournoy served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and in his second term he served as chairman of the Committee on Counties and Municipal Corporations.[1][2] Throughout his two terms, Flournoy served on the committees of Privileges and Elections, Federal Relations, Immigration and Agriculture, and Public Printing.[1][2] In 1890, during his second term in the West Virginia Senate, Flournoy relocated from Romney to Charleston and continued practicing law there.[2][11][21] He resigned from his senate seat in 1890.[16]

Charleston law practice edit

In Charleston, in 1891, Flournoy founded the law firm Couch, Flournoy and Price with former West Virginia Senate President, George Edmund Price.[22][23] The firm would later become Flournoy, Price, and Smith with the addition of Harrison Brooks Smith in 1894.[22][24] On March 7, 1892, Flournoy and his partner Price were admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.[25] Flournoy and Price continued to expand their law practice into Southern West Virginia when they were admitted to the bar of Summers County in 1894.[26]

In April 1897, while practicing law in Charleston, Flournoy became qualified to practice law at the bar of Tazewell County, Virginia.[27] As a Charleston lawyer, Flournoy represented both plaintiffs and defendants involved in suits over coalfield land titles in Southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia. From 1900 to 1901, Flournoy represented the defendant Henry C. King in a widely publicized case involving claim to a land title of 500,000 acres (2,000 km2) spanning counties in Southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals.[28][29][30] In 1901, Flournoy represented S. J. Ritchie of Akron, Ohio, in the Tazewell County Court, where his client claimed a large land tract of valuable coalfields spanning Tazewell County and McDowell County, West Virginia.[31]

Gubernatorial candidacy edit

In early April 1900, a movement among prominent West Virginia Democratic Party members in Charleston began to coalesce around Flournoy in support of his candidacy for West Virginia governor.[32][33] Flournoy was considered a William Jennings Bryan Democrat with conservative positions, and Charleston Democrats felt he would receive wide support and would not antagonize corporations.[32] Flournoy took the matter under advisement and on April 25, 1900, he announced his candidacy for West Virginia governor.[32][34][35] In his announcement, Flournoy stated that he was unwilling to engage in a heated contest for the nomination and that he would be content with the outcome of the Democratic Party state convention, no matter the decision.[34][36] He further stated that he trusted the state convention would craft a ticket that would command the support of the people of West Virginia.[34][36] Following his announcement, the Spirit of Jefferson newspaper in Charles Town stated of Flournoy on May 1, 1900: "Mr. Flournoy is a most estimable gentleman, well and favorably known here, would doubtless make an excellent governor, and as the nominee of the Democratic party would receive a hearty support in the Eastern panhandle."[36] Flournoy also received the support of the Democratic Party in Mineral County in May 1900.[37]

At the West Virginia Democratic Party State Convention held in Parkersburg on June 6, 1900, Flournoy competed for the party's nomination for gubernatorial candidacy against Lewis N. Tavenner of Parkersburg, John H. Holt of Huntington, and Virgil G. Lewis of Mason City.[35][38][39] Prior to the convention, Daniel B. Lucas of Jefferson County had been a candidate for nomination.[40] Holt won the Democratic Party's nomination on the first ballot, but lost in the general election to Republican candidate Albert B. White.[38][39] Flournoy and Lewis each received just one vote while Holt received 483 and Tavenner received 450 votes.[38][39][41]

West Virginia Bar Association edit

Flournoy was present at the first meeting of the West Virginia Bar Association held on the date of its organization on July 8, 1886, in Grafton.[42][43] As a member, Flournoy was appointed to draft the association's constitution and by-laws and served on its executive committee.[43][44][45] In addition to serving as a vice president of the association, Flournoy also represented the 12th Judicial Circuit on the association's Committee on Judicial Administration and Legal Reform and later served on the Committee of Admissions.[46] On January 7, 1892, Flournoy was elected as the association's vice president for West Virginia's 3rd congressional district.[47]

Business pursuits edit

In addition to his law practice and political pursuits, Flournoy also engaged in several business ventures. On August 4, 1888, he purchased five shares priced at $100 each in order to invest in and provide capital stock for the incorporation of the Bank of Romney.[21] Along with Harrison B. Smith and fellow state senator George E. Price, Flournoy again served as an incorporator on April 25, 1901, when the Tug and Guyandotte Railroad Company was granted its charter with $100,000 in capital.[48] The Tug and Guyandotte Railroad was constructed between the Norfolk and Western Railway at Davy and Baileysville to facilitate the transportation of coal.[29] Flournoy, Price, and Flournoy's son Richard Parke Flournoy were incorporators of the Bradford Building Company which was chartered with capital of $20,000 on September 25, 1901, with the purpose of engaging in general building and construction projects.[49]

The following year, on December 20, 1902, Flournoy, Price, and their law partner Smith were also incorporators of the White Oak Mining Company and of the West Construction Company.[50][51] With an authorized capital stock of $100,000, the White Oak Mining Company, that was engaged in the mining, shipment, and sale of coal, the cutting and sawing of timber, and the operations and sales of railway, telephone, and telegraph lines and networks.[50] The West Construction Company, based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was a general contracting and construction firm also involved in the operation and maintenance of railway, telephone, and telegraph lines.[51]

Personal life edit

Marriage and children edit

On April 10, 1875, in Hampshire County, Flournoy married Frances "Fannie" Ann Armstrong White (April 10, 1844 – February 25, 1922), the daughter of Hampshire County Clerk of Court John Baker White and his wife Frances Ann Streit White.[3][52][53][54] Frances White's brother, Robert White, served as West Virginia Attorney General, and her brother Christian Streit White served as President of the West Virginia Fish Commission. Flournoy and his wife Frances had six children (five sons and one daughter):[3][52]

  • Richard Parke Flournoy (December 29, 1875 – May 5, 1959)[55][56]
  • Harry Lightfoot Flournoy (March 4, 1878 – December 31, 1954)[57]
  • Frances T. Flournoy Preston, married James M. Preston of Lewisburg, West Virginia[58][59]
  • Robert Baker Flournoy (October 10, 1882 – July 25, 1883)[60][61]
  • Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy (January 7, 1886 – May 17, 1961), married Sarah Katharine Cotton[62][63][64]
  • Alexander White Flournoy (March 15, 1887 – March 16, 1958), married Anne Cary Gravatt[65][66]

Religious activities edit

Flournoy was active in the Presbyterian Church in Hampshire County and served as a trustee for the Presbytery of Winchester, along with Henry Bell Gilkeson.[67] In 1881, Flournoy and his fellow trustees were instrumental in securing from Amos L. and Allie G. Pugh a house and a large partially wooded lot in Capon Bridge for use by the Presbytery as a centrally located manse in Hampshire County.[67] Flournoy was elected as a deacon in the Presbyterian Church in 1879 and remained a trustee of the Presbytery of Winchester until 1891 when he relocated to Charleston.[68] Following his move to Charleston, Flournoy became a member of the First Presbyterian Church and served as one of seven church elders there.[69]

Later life and death edit

Flounoy died as a result of throat and pulmonary illnesses on January 28, 1904, at 2:40 a.m. in Orlando, Florida, where he had traveled to restore his failing health.[24][70][71] His wife and his physician Dr. Henry were at his side at the time of his death.[24] Flournoy was survived by his wife, and five of his children.[24]

He served on the Board of Trustees of Hampden–Sydney College from 1892 until his death.[6][72] A tribute to Flournoy was rendered by college president Richard McIlwaine at a meeting of the Hampden–Sydney College trustees on June 13, 1904.[73]

Following his death, The Weekly Register newspaper in Point Pleasant remarked that Flournoy "was one of the prominent [Democratic] leaders of the state, and occupied a high place in the estimation [of] the party followers".[24] The Times-Dispatch of Richmond stated that Flournoy "was one of the best known members of the bar" of Charleston and described his service during the American Civil War as gallant.[70]

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This article is about the 19th century politician For his son see Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy lawyer Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy November 25 1846 January 28 1904 was an American lawyer politician and businessperson in the U S state of West Virginia Flournoy served as a state senator representing the 12th Senatorial District in the West Virginia Senate 1885 1890 and served three terms as mayor of Romney West Virginia Flournoy unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the West Virginia Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination in 1900 HonorableSamuel Lightfoot FlournoyMember of the West Virginia Senate from the 12th districtIn office 1885 1890Serving with George Edmund PricePreceded byJoseph Van MeterSucceeded byHenry Bell GilkesonPersonal detailsBorn 1846 11 25 November 25 1846Chesterfield County Virginia United StatesDiedJanuary 28 1904 1904 01 28 aged 57 Orlando Florida United StatesPolitical partyDemocratic PartySpouseFrances Fannie Ann Armstrong WhiteRelationsRichard W Flournoy father Sarah Parke Poindexter Flournoy mother John Baker White father in law Christian Streit White brother in law Robert White brother in law John Baker White nephew Robert White nephew ChildrenRichard Parke FlournoyHarry Lightfoot FlournoyFrances T Flournoy PrestonRobert Baker FlournoySamuel Lightfoot FlournoyAlexander White FlournoyResidence s Romney West VirginiaCharleston West VirginiaAlma materHampden Sydney College B A Professionlawyer politician businesspersonMilitary serviceAllegiance Confederate States of AmericaBranch service Confederate States ArmyYears of service1863 1865 CSA RankprivateUnitCompany A Otey Battery 13th Battalion Virginia Light ArtilleryBattles warsAmerican Civil WarFlournoy was born in 1846 in Chesterfield County Virginia In 1863 during the American Civil War he enlisted as a private in the Confederate States Army and served until the war s end in 1865 After graduating from Hampden Sydney College in 1868 Flournoy taught school for four years while studying law In 1870 he relocated to Romney West Virginia where he served as principal of the Potomac Academy He was admitted to the bar in 1873 and afterward served on the Board of Regents for the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind 1876 1880 During his second term in the West Virginia Senate Flournoy relocated to Charleston to practice law He also engaged in several business ventures and was an incorporator of the Bank of Romney the Tug and Guyandotte Railroad Company the Bradford Building Company the White Oak Mining Company and the West Construction Company Flournoy served on the Board of Trustees of Hampden Sydney College from 1892 until his death in 1904 Through his marriage to Frances Fannie Ann Armstrong White Flournoy was a brother in law of West Virginia Attorney General Robert White and West Virginia Fish Commission President Christian Streit White and the son in law of Hampshire County Clerk of Court John Baker White Through his father Flournoy was a relative of Thomas Flournoy United States Representative from Virginia Flournoy was the father of prominent Charleston lawyer Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy Contents 1 Early life and military career 2 Education and teaching career 3 Law and political careers 3 1 Romney law practice 3 2 West Virginia Senate 3 3 Charleston law practice 3 4 Gubernatorial candidacy 3 5 West Virginia Bar Association 4 Business pursuits 5 Personal life 5 1 Marriage and children 5 2 Religious activities 5 3 Later life and death 6 References 7 Bibliography 8 External linksEarly life and military career editSamuel Lightfoot Flournoy was born on November 25 1846 in Chesterfield County Virginia 7 miles 11 km from Richmond and was the son of Richard W Flournoy and his wife Sarah Parke Poindexter Flournoy 1 2 3 4 He had four siblings two brothers and two sisters Reverend Parke Poindexter Flournoy Eliza Flournoy Ayler Richard W Flournoy and Ellen Flournoy Thornton 4 Flournoy was of English and French ancestry 3 He was a relative of Thomas Flournoy United States Representative from Virginia 5 The majority of Flournoy s youth and early adulthood were spent in Richmond where he attended the city s public schools 1 2 In 1863 during the American Civil War Flournoy enlisted as a private in the Confederate States Army at the age of 17 1 2 He served the entirety of his enlistment in Company A Otey Battery 13th Battalion Virginia Light Artillery in Richmond throughout the course of the war until its end in 1865 1 2 3 Education and teaching career editFollowing the war Flournoy entered Hampden Sydney College in Hampden Sydney Virginia to pursue an education in classical studies 1 2 His elder brother Parke Poindexter Flournoy had been an assistant professor at the college during the war 4 6 Flournoy graduated with honors and a Bachelor of Arts from Hampden Sydney College in 1868 and received the Speaker s Medal from the institution s Philanthropic Debating Society 1 2 6 7 While attending Hampden Sydney College he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity 7 Following graduation Flournoy taught school for four years while studying law 1 2 Around 1870 he relocated to Romney West Virginia where he took charge as principal and taught at the Potomac Academy with considerable success and continued his law studies 8 9 10 Flournoy was admitted to the bar in Romney in January 1873 1 2 11 Law and political careers editRomney law practice edit nbsp Hampshire County Courthouse in RomneyFollowing his admission to the bar Flournoy immediately began practicing law in Romney and won merited distinction in his field 2 He became a prominent leader in the community and was elected as a member of the Romney Literary Society 1 2 12 Flournoy served on the fourth Board of Regents of the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind from 1876 to 1880 13 He served three terms as mayor of Romney 1 2 11 As his law career prospered Flournoy was active in the establishment of The Society of the Ex Confederate Soldiers in Hampshire County 14 The society s missions were to obtain an accurate roster of Confederate veterans and to collect and preserve materials to maintain a truthful history of the American Civil War 14 Flournoy and a group of Confederate veterans met at the Hampshire County Courthouse in Romney on July 31 1883 where he was appointed secretary of the society 14 The society s constitution was presented at its first annual reunion on September 5 1883 at which time Flournoy was officially titled as the society s corresponding secretary 14 Alexander W Monroe was among the society s three concurrently serving vice presidents 14 West Virginia Senate edit Flournoy was elected to represent the 12th Senatorial District consisting of Grant Hampshire Hardy Mineral and Pendleton counties in the West Virginia Senate in 1885 and was re elected to the seat in 1889 15 16 17 18 In the West Virginia state senatorial election on November 6 1888 Flournoy defeated his Republican challenger S G Pownall with 5 578 votes to Pownall s 4 028 votes 15 Following his election Flournoy was selected as part of West Virginia s attending delegation to the inauguration of President Benjamin Harrison 19 20 In his first term in the West Virginia Senate Flournoy served as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and in his second term he served as chairman of the Committee on Counties and Municipal Corporations 1 2 Throughout his two terms Flournoy served on the committees of Privileges and Elections Federal Relations Immigration and Agriculture and Public Printing 1 2 In 1890 during his second term in the West Virginia Senate Flournoy relocated from Romney to Charleston and continued practicing law there 2 11 21 He resigned from his senate seat in 1890 16 Charleston law practice edit In Charleston in 1891 Flournoy founded the law firm Couch Flournoy and Price with former West Virginia Senate President George Edmund Price 22 23 The firm would later become Flournoy Price and Smith with the addition of Harrison Brooks Smith in 1894 22 24 On March 7 1892 Flournoy and his partner Price were admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States 25 Flournoy and Price continued to expand their law practice into Southern West Virginia when they were admitted to the bar of Summers County in 1894 26 In April 1897 while practicing law in Charleston Flournoy became qualified to practice law at the bar of Tazewell County Virginia 27 As a Charleston lawyer Flournoy represented both plaintiffs and defendants involved in suits over coalfield land titles in Southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia From 1900 to 1901 Flournoy represented the defendant Henry C King in a widely publicized case involving claim to a land title of 500 000 acres 2 000 km2 spanning counties in Southern West Virginia and Southwest Virginia in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals 28 29 30 In 1901 Flournoy represented S J Ritchie of Akron Ohio in the Tazewell County Court where his client claimed a large land tract of valuable coalfields spanning Tazewell County and McDowell County West Virginia 31 Gubernatorial candidacy edit In early April 1900 a movement among prominent West Virginia Democratic Party members in Charleston began to coalesce around Flournoy in support of his candidacy for West Virginia governor 32 33 Flournoy was considered a William Jennings Bryan Democrat with conservative positions and Charleston Democrats felt he would receive wide support and would not antagonize corporations 32 Flournoy took the matter under advisement and on April 25 1900 he announced his candidacy for West Virginia governor 32 34 35 In his announcement Flournoy stated that he was unwilling to engage in a heated contest for the nomination and that he would be content with the outcome of the Democratic Party state convention no matter the decision 34 36 He further stated that he trusted the state convention would craft a ticket that would command the support of the people of West Virginia 34 36 Following his announcement the Spirit of Jefferson newspaper in Charles Town stated of Flournoy on May 1 1900 Mr Flournoy is a most estimable gentleman well and favorably known here would doubtless make an excellent governor and as the nominee of the Democratic party would receive a hearty support in the Eastern panhandle 36 Flournoy also received the support of the Democratic Party in Mineral County in May 1900 37 At the West Virginia Democratic Party State Convention held in Parkersburg on June 6 1900 Flournoy competed for the party s nomination for gubernatorial candidacy against Lewis N Tavenner of Parkersburg John H Holt of Huntington and Virgil G Lewis of Mason City 35 38 39 Prior to the convention Daniel B Lucas of Jefferson County had been a candidate for nomination 40 Holt won the Democratic Party s nomination on the first ballot but lost in the general election to Republican candidate Albert B White 38 39 Flournoy and Lewis each received just one vote while Holt received 483 and Tavenner received 450 votes 38 39 41 West Virginia Bar Association edit Flournoy was present at the first meeting of the West Virginia Bar Association held on the date of its organization on July 8 1886 in Grafton 42 43 As a member Flournoy was appointed to draft the association s constitution and by laws and served on its executive committee 43 44 45 In addition to serving as a vice president of the association Flournoy also represented the 12th Judicial Circuit on the association s Committee on Judicial Administration and Legal Reform and later served on the Committee of Admissions 46 On January 7 1892 Flournoy was elected as the association s vice president for West Virginia s 3rd congressional district 47 Business pursuits editIn addition to his law practice and political pursuits Flournoy also engaged in several business ventures On August 4 1888 he purchased five shares priced at 100 each in order to invest in and provide capital stock for the incorporation of the Bank of Romney 21 Along with Harrison B Smith and fellow state senator George E Price Flournoy again served as an incorporator on April 25 1901 when the Tug and Guyandotte Railroad Company was granted its charter with 100 000 in capital 48 The Tug and Guyandotte Railroad was constructed between the Norfolk and Western Railway at Davy and Baileysville to facilitate the transportation of coal 29 Flournoy Price and Flournoy s son Richard Parke Flournoy were incorporators of the Bradford Building Company which was chartered with capital of 20 000 on September 25 1901 with the purpose of engaging in general building and construction projects 49 The following year on December 20 1902 Flournoy Price and their law partner Smith were also incorporators of the White Oak Mining Company and of the West Construction Company 50 51 With an authorized capital stock of 100 000 the White Oak Mining Company that was engaged in the mining shipment and sale of coal the cutting and sawing of timber and the operations and sales of railway telephone and telegraph lines and networks 50 The West Construction Company based in Chattanooga Tennessee was a general contracting and construction firm also involved in the operation and maintenance of railway telephone and telegraph lines 51 Personal life editMarriage and children edit On April 10 1875 in Hampshire County Flournoy married Frances Fannie Ann Armstrong White April 10 1844 February 25 1922 the daughter of Hampshire County Clerk of Court John Baker White and his wife Frances Ann Streit White 3 52 53 54 Frances White s brother Robert White served as West Virginia Attorney General and her brother Christian Streit White served as President of the West Virginia Fish Commission Flournoy and his wife Frances had six children five sons and one daughter 3 52 Richard Parke Flournoy December 29 1875 May 5 1959 55 56 Harry Lightfoot Flournoy March 4 1878 December 31 1954 57 Frances T Flournoy Preston married James M Preston of Lewisburg West Virginia 58 59 Robert Baker Flournoy October 10 1882 July 25 1883 60 61 Samuel Lightfoot Flournoy January 7 1886 May 17 1961 married Sarah Katharine Cotton 62 63 64 Alexander White Flournoy March 15 1887 March 16 1958 married Anne Cary Gravatt 65 66 Religious activities edit Flournoy was active in the Presbyterian Church in Hampshire County and served as a trustee for the Presbytery of Winchester along with Henry Bell Gilkeson 67 In 1881 Flournoy and his fellow trustees were instrumental in securing from Amos L and Allie G Pugh a house and a large partially wooded lot in Capon Bridge for use by the Presbytery as a centrally located manse in Hampshire County 67 Flournoy was elected as a deacon in the Presbyterian Church in 1879 and remained a trustee of the Presbytery of Winchester until 1891 when he relocated to Charleston 68 Following his move to Charleston Flournoy became a member of the First Presbyterian Church and served as one of seven church elders there 69 Later life and death edit Flounoy died as a result of throat and pulmonary illnesses on January 28 1904 at 2 40 a m in Orlando Florida where he had traveled to restore his failing health 24 70 71 His wife and his physician Dr Henry were at his side at the time of his death 24 Flournoy was survived by his wife and five of his children 24 He served on the Board of Trustees of Hampden Sydney College from 1892 until his death 6 72 A tribute to Flournoy was rendered by college president Richard McIlwaine at a meeting of the Hampden Sydney College trustees on June 13 1904 73 Following his death The Weekly Register newspaper in Point Pleasant remarked that Flournoy was one of the prominent Democratic leaders of the state and occupied a high place in the estimation of the party followers 24 The Times Dispatch of Richmond stated that Flournoy was one of the best known members of the bar of Charleston and described his service during the American Civil War as gallant 70 References edit a b c d e f g h i j k l Atkinson amp Gibbens 1890 p 442 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n 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