Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 
1901, reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical 
Society.

JOHN M. FLEGE.  Grant County numbers among her common school teachers
some of the best in the state.  Among all of them there is not one more
popular, or who has made a more unqualified success of teaching than
John M. Flege, of whom we write.  Born September 9, 1863, he was the 
son of J. F. and Sallie (Woodyard) Flege, his father having emigrated 
to this country from Germany, and the son has inherited many of the 
stick-to-it qualities which abound in that race.  He was reared on a 
farm, and went to school in winter at the common schools, where he 
received a good common school education, after which he became a pupil 
of C. C. Overstreet in his high school at Williamstown, and attended 
his school four years.  He taught his first school at the Cartersville 
school-house, near this city, in the years 1885-6, and has taught five 
years in that district, besides teaching four years at Bracht Station, 
in Kenton County, and three years at Dry Ridge, and three more at 
Stewartsville.  He has taught altogether fifteen years in the county 
and state, teaching five months of each year and farming in the summer, 
and has always held a first-class certificate.   He is now classed among 
the oldest teachers, professionally, in the county.  In politics he is 
a Democrat and has never voted any but that ticket.  He was a candidate 
for the office of County Superintendent of Schools last fall, but was 
defeated.  He made a clean campaign and received a good vote.  He is 
now straight out for the whole ticket nominated at the primary from
end to end.  He is a Methodist, having been converted many years ago,
and his name stands at the head of the list of church and Sunday school 
workers in Grant County.  Mr. Flege was married May 21, 1889 to Miss 
Fannie Blaine, to which union there have been born six children, three 
boys and three girls, all of whom are living, and who are bright, 
beautiful children.

Flege Woodyard Overstreet Blaine
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Kenton-KY Germany

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