Surely named after surveyor Frank F. Flournoy (1868-1960) although the man himself was based in Santa Barbara. Flournoy Road was christened in 1905 on the Philinda tract, owned by Philinda Hunt. She and her husband Charles Clifford “C.C.” Hunt had vast holdings in Hawthorne and Manhattan Beach but, like Flournoy, resided in Santa Barbara (where there’s a Philinda Avenue intersecting a Clifford Street). Newspaper articles indicated that Flournoy knew the Hunts – no surprise, since SB was a small town in those days – and he served as Santa Barbara county surveyor while the Hunts’ son Charles Albert was county clerk. Frank Flournoy was born in Missouri and came to California in childhood. Initially working as a surveyor in Merced County, he moved to SB in 1887 to ply his trade there. By all accounts he was instrumental in the upbuilding of that fair city, where in 1892 he married local gal Nellie Buckingham (1872-1960). He was also something of a character: he claimed to own the largest shotgun in the world and sported a large hat ringed with rattlesnake rattles.
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