"An Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish Counties."  Interstate
Publishing Company, 1906.  p. 603.
 
BENJAMIN FLAGG

     after a life of hard work and the best endeavor in behalf of his family, is
living as a retired farmer on his holdings four miles northwest of Mount Vernon.
In Mr. Flagg's case, retirement from the activities of farm life does not mean
loss of activity in the interests of the community in which he makes his home.
He is one of the public-spirited citizens, modest and taking little credit to
himself for good deeds done and good works accomplished. He was born in New
Brunswick in 1835, the son of Winslow Flagg, who died while his son was quite
young, and Haddasa (Woodbury) Flagg, a native of Maine, near the New Brunswick
border. Mrs. Flagg passed away in 1898. having brought three children into the
world, Benjamin being the only one now living. Mr. Flagg lived with his mother
until twenty years of age. His life in Skagit county commenced in 1882, when he
came there with his family, settling in the solitudes of the forest, a part of
which he has converted into cultivated farm land.
     In New Brunswick in 1862 Mr. Flagg married Miss Mary Daggett, daughter of
Mark Daggett, a native of Maine, who lived until a few years ago. Mrs. Flagg was
born in New Brunswick and lived with her parents until her marriage. She died in
1900, the mother of four children, one of whom is dead. The surviving are Arthur
W. and Annie, the latter living with her father in his Skagit county home. Mr.
Flagg has retained but five acres for the home of his declining days, but still
holds title to ten acres elsewhere. He has in recent years sold an eighty-acre
tract of fertile land for $70 per acre.  One of the chief characteristics of Mr.
Flagg's later years is the interest he manifests in the development of his
community and the activity along directions of uplift to all with whom he comes
in contact. He is recognized in the community as a man of the best public spirit
and of the most honorable private life.  As such he is a power in the
neighborhood. In politics he is a Republican and in church circles a
Methodist.
     
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