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DR. E. D. FLAGG, supt. and treas. Sergeant Milling Co., was born in Chenango county, N. Y., May 18, 1852. His father, Jesse Flagg, was born in Rutland county, Vt., in 1812, and his mother in Cattaraugas county, N. Y., in 1823. They are now living in Wisconsin. When about thirteen years of age he moved with his parents to Portage county, Wis., where they located on a farm, and young Flagg attended school; also Ripon College. At seventeen he left home going to the Wisconsin pineries on Wolf River, and shortly after to those on the Black River; continued there six months, then engaged on the Wis. Cent. Railroad for a time, after which he traveled in Arkansas, Texas, and other states South. He came to Joplin in March, 1871, and for some time engaged in mining, and commenced the study of medicine in the fall of 1873, studying of evenings and working through the day. In the spring of 1875 he entered the Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, graduating from that institution in June, 1877, and returned to Wisconsin and engaged in the practice of his profession at Mindore, LaCrosse county, for about three years, returned to Cincinnati and entered the Eclectic Medical Institute, graduating in June, 1880. He returned at once to Joplin and practiced until the December following, when he was elected supt. and treas. of the Sergeant Milling Co., and in June became one of the company. Dr. Flagg was married in Wisconsin, July 13, 1877, to Miss Ellen B. Sergeant, daughter of J. B. Sergeant of this city. By this union there are two children: Helen C., born July 13, 1878, and Edith Dore, born March 10, 1882. The doctor is a man of good business qualifications and withal a genial gentleman.