Flint Public Library

The Flint Public Library that is located in Middleton Square in Middleton, Massachusetts was found by my ancestor Charles L. Flint, who is the cousin of Sylvanus Flint the secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, he offered one million dollars to help start the library. In 1891, under the will of Charles Flint for the purposes of raising the long-lasting library building that was built of brick with Nova Scotia sandstone trimming and a slate roof. The entire book collection that is in the library has five thousand volumes, representing accumulations from earlier private library associations and the personal library and writings of Charles Flint..

Throughout the years the library contains more than forty thousand books, one thousand and three hundred videotapes, one thousand and one hundred audiotapes.

Another fact of my ancestor is that he was one of the founders of the Massachusetts Agricultural college (today which is “University of Massachusetts Amherst), in 1912 a laboratory was built in his name, which is called “Flint Laboratory” and told part of the founding of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a member of the Boston School Committee.

Cited:

http://www.massachusetts.edu/presidents/flint.html

http://www.flintlibrary.org/aboutus.html