page_title: Dennis Thomas Flynn
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Dennis Thomas Flynn / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: Streeter Flynn
context_page_description: Dennis Thomas Flynn was an American politician and a Delegate from Oklahoma Territory to the United States House of Representatives.
context_section_description: Flynn was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, on February 13, 1861, son of Dennis T. and Margaret (Clancy) Flynn. He moved with his mother to Buffalo, New York, in 1863. There, he became an orphan at the age of three when his mother died. He was raised in a Catholic orphanage where he remained until 1880. He attended common school and then Canisius College in Buffalo.
  He married Addie M. Blanton in 1887. Mrs. Flynn was born, reared and educated in Kansas. She was married to Mr. Flynn in Kiowa, Kansas, while he was a practicing lawyer there. In 1889 Flynn was appointed by President Harrison Postmaster of the City of Gutherie, Oklahoma, and the family moved to that place. Mrs. Flynn is the mother of four children; her oldest son, Dennis, died when quite young; surviving a daughter, Dorothy, a son, Streeter Flynn, and another son.
caption: Streeter Flynn
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