FARMINGTON – Allen Flint, a professor emeritus at the University of Maine at Farmington, suffered a major stroke in his home in Farmington and died on Friday, May 4, 2007, surrounded by his family.

Born and raised in Park River, N.D., Allen was the son of Orva Hastings Flint and William Henry Flint.

Allen was a loving husband for 40 years to Mary Halpern Flint; and an outstanding father to Catherine Morgan (husband, Stuart) of Minnesota, Andrew Flint (wife, Ida) of Washington, Meredith Kendall (husband, Schuyler) of Maine, Susan Barr (husband, John) of New York, and Joshua Flint (fiancée, Mercy Ann Dioquinio) of Arizona.

He read and fished with his nine grandchildren, Lev and Hannah Morgan; Miles, Adrian, and Dylan Flint; Elliot Allen and Micah Kendall; and Gwendolyn and Gabriel Barr. He also took them to baseball games.

Allen served in the U.S. Army and took great pride in the work he did teaching illiterate soldiers to read. Allen was an administrator at the University of Minnesota. He taught first at Western Illinois University, then for 26 years at UMF. His doctoral dissertation was on the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. A scholar, he was awarded Fulbrights to Cluj-Napoca, Romania and Brno, Czechoslovakia. He lectured on a wide variety of topics, sometimes humorously. His vast depth of studies included black literature, literature of the Civil War, and works of Robert Gould Shaw and Elizabeth Akers Allen.

He loved his family and the game of golf. He will be sorely missed.

He is also survived by his sisters, Lois Flint Eldridge and Helen Mary Flint.

He was predeceased by his parents; his brothers, Roland, David and Donald Flint; and his first wife, Helen Sorlie Flint.