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THE OOLOGIST 



added to this habit of observation we 

 shall also have joined the habit of 

 veracious and conscientious chronic- 

 ling, we shall have begun to show our- 

 selves really bird students; and not 

 merely hoggish amassers of material. 

 Isn't this all richly worth the while? 



P. B. Peabody. 



JOHN H. FLANAGAN 



Prominent Attorney, Former Solicitor 



of Town of Warwick, Dead in 



His 52nd Year. 



The Evening Bulletin, Feb. 24, 1920. 

 — John H. Flanagan, prominent attor- 

 ney here for many years, former War- 

 wick Town Solicitor and a law partner 

 pf John Doran before the latter be- 



came justice of the Superior Court, 

 died last right at his home, 89 Power 

 street. He was 51 years old and had 

 been ill since last November. Cere- 

 bral hemorrhage caused his death. 



Next to legal affairs bird life ap- 

 pealed most to Mr. Flanagan. He was 

 an expert ornithologist, was Bird Com- 

 missioner for Providence county and 

 chairman of the board from 1905 to 

 1908, when he declined reappointment, 

 and had one of the best private col- 

 lections of eggs in this section of the 

 country. He had also been secretary 

 of the Bird Commission for several 

 years. 



The American Ornithological Union 

 claimed him as one of its most in- 

 terested members. He was in the 

 Providence Fish and Game Associa- 

 tion, the Franklin Lyceum, of which he 

 was a lecturer, and the Providence 

 Gun Club. Mr. Flanagan was also a 

 member of the Rhode Island Bar As- 

 sociation and its executive board, the 

 Catholic Club and the Athenaeum. 



He was born July 7, 1868, in Crans- 

 ton, and lived the greater part of the 

 time, prior to being admitted to the 

 bar in 1894, in Apponaug. He was a 

 graduate of La Salle, and a member 

 of the executive board of that institu- 

 tion. In 1892, he was graduated from 

 Manhattan College, and the Harvard 

 Law School three years later. 



He studied law in the offices of Ed- 

 win D. McGuinness, who was at the " 

 time Mayor of Providence, and a part- 

 ner of John Doran. Upon the death 

 of Mr. McGuinness in 1901, the firm of 

 Doran & Flanagan was established. 

 Mr. Flanagan continued the practice 

 of law alone, following the election of 

 his partner as judge. 



He is survived by a sister, Josephine 

 A., and three brothers, Edward J., 

 Thomas L., and Dr. William F. Flana- 

 gan. 



