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Robert Elliott Flickinger
b. 1846
A Presbyterian minister, educator, and local historian, he wrote with a strong sense of memory and community. His books preserve family records, regional history, and the story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy and the Choctaw Freedmen.
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The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
by Robert Elliott Flickinger
About the author
Born in Pennsylvania in December 1845, Robert Elliott Flickinger is often cataloged as "1846-" in library records, but local historical and memorial sources give his birth date as December 3, 1845. He became a Presbyterian minister and later wrote several substantial historical works.
His best-known books include The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy, The Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa, and The Flickinger Family History. Together, these works show his long-running interest in education, church life, genealogy, and the preservation of community history.
Flickinger died in 1937. Although he is not widely known today, his writing remains useful to readers interested in American religious history, Iowa and Pennsylvania local history, and family records from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.