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Framed oil portrait of Rufus Flynt (1775-1836) with thinning hair brushed forward and long sideburns, who is wearing a high white stock and black jacket. The portrait was bought by HD founder Henry N. Flynt (1893-1970) along with a portrait of Rufus' wife, Sally Norcross Flynt (HD 66.123A.2), from Rufus Roleson Flynt in 1966. The son of Jonathan Flynt and Mercy Leonard of Hardwick, Massachusetts, Rufus moved to Monson in 1792 where he became a clerk in the store of William Norcross and married Norcross's daughter, Sarah (Sally) Norcorss (1780-1863), in 1800. They had four children - one, William Norcross Flynt (1818-1895), was the grandfather of Henry Needham Flynt. Rufus Flynt was a successful businessman, including establishing Flynt Quarry, a granite quarry, that opened in 1809 in Monson, Massachusetts to originally supply granite for the construction of the Springfield Armory. It was later used to supply granite to virtually all buildings in Monson that are made of granite, including the Memorial Town Hall, the library, the Universalist church, and all of the monuments in town. The quarry went into decline with the introduction of concrete as a more popular form of construction, and the quarry was finally closed by around 1935. The painter has not been identified.
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