"An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties."  Interstate
Publishing Company, 1906.  p. 579.
 
ARTHUR W. FLAGG

	is one of the bright young business men and farmers of the Swinomish flats
and is fast making a name for himself among the members of the community as a
success at whatever he undertakes. He was born in New Brunswick and came to
Skagit county with his parents when eighteen years of age. His father, Benjamin
Flagg, also a native of New Brunswick, was in his earlier days a carpenter by
trade, but took up farming after coming to Washington. He is still living at
Avon. Mary (Daggett) Flagg, the mother, was born in New Brunswick; she died on
the homestead near La Conner in 1890, the mother of four children, of whom
Arthur is the oldest. Arthur W. Flagg received his education in New Brunswick
before coming to Washington. His first years here were spent as a farm hand. On
becoming of legal age he filed on a preemption of eighty acres near Avon,
selling out several years after proving up.  In 1891 he opened a drug store at
Avon and conducted it for five years, selling out to go into the employ of the
Hayton-Dunlap hardware store in La Conner. After a year and a half in the
hardware business. Mr. Flagg bought a farm on the Samish and operated it for
three years. He sold out there and bought his present place of eighty acres six
miles west of Mount Vernon in 1901. 
	In 1893 at Seattle Mr. Flagg married Miss Rose Dunlap, daughter of Isaac
Dunlap, retired farmer and stock raiser near La Conner, a sketch of whom appears
elsewhere in this volume.   Mrs. Susan (Maxwell) Dunlap was born in Iowa, and is
still living near La Conner, the mother of seven children. Mrs. Flagg was born
during the residence of her parents in California, in the last days of 1867, and
came to Skagit county when ten years old. She received her education in the
schools of this county.
	Mr. and Mrs. Flagg have three children: Philip, Frank and Robin, all born in
this county. In politics Mr. Flagg is an ardent Republican. He is much
interested in the efficiency of the schools and is serving a term as clerk of
the school board of District No. 15. The farm consists of sixty-five acres under
cultivation, the balance in pasture. Mr. Flagg is interested in stock raising
and has thirty head of cattle as his chief venture in that direction. By his
energy, application to business and his administrative qualities, he is building
up a handsome fortune. At the same time he does not confine all his energies to
his private matters, but takes a lively interest in all affairs which pertain to
the betterment of his community.
     
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