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 HBRRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. sentative from Pennsylvania to the fortyninth congress as a republican. He died in 1908 in Butler, Pa. Fleet, Alexander Frederick, soldier, educator, college president, was born June 6, 1848, in King and Queen county, Va. He was an officer in the confederate army during the civil war. In 1868-73 he was professor of Greek and German in the William Jewell college of Missouri; in 1879-90 he was professor of Greek at the university of Missouri; and in 1890-96 was founder and superintendent of the Missouri military academy at Mexico. In 1873-79 he was president of the female college at Lexington, Mo.; and since 1896 has been superintendent of the Culver military academy of

Indiana. printer, journalist, was 1685, in England. He was the father of the celebrated Mother Goose Melodies. He was the editor and proprietor of The Boston Evening Post from 1733, which was conducted until 1757 by himself and two sons. He died July 21, 1758, in

Fleet,

Thomas,

born on Sept.

8,

Boston, Mass. Flemer, Jolm Adolph,

civil

and landscape

engineer, horticulturist, author, was born April 1, 1S59. in Xew York aty. He received the rudiments of his education in a private school; in 1870-74 attended the latin school in Cassel, Hessia, Germany; in 1874-78 was at the polytechnic school at the same place; and in 1878-81 attended the Royal technical high school of Berlin. He is a successful horticulturist, topographic and landscape engineer. In 1886-1900 he was assistant in the United States coast and geodetic survey; and in 1900-03 was connected with the F. and F. nurseries of Since 1904 he has been Springfield, X.J. engineer to the commissioner for demarcaHe is the aution of Alaskan boundary. thor of Treatise on Photographic Methods

and Instruments. Fleming, Aretas Brooks, lawyer, jurist, governor, was born Oct. 29, 1839, in Fairmont, W.Va. He was educated in the academy at Fairmont, W.Va.; and in 185960 was a student in the law department of the university of Virginia. In 1891 he received the degree of LL.D. from the university of West Virginia. In 1862 he was admitted to the pracof law; and in 1863-68 was prosecuting attorney. In 187273 and 1875-76 he was a member of the Virginia state legislature. In 1877-88 he was judge of the second judicial circuit of West Virginia. In 1889-93 he was governor of West Virginia. He is one of the leading lawyers of the south; and is interested in tice

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extensive coal mines in the upper Monongahela valley.

Fleming, Andrew Magnus, lawyer, author, was born April 2, 1858, in Plymouth, Mass.

He

is a noted lawyer of Delaware county, Iowa. He is the author of Joe Bowers; Captain Kiddle Wreckleback's Hotel; and Gleanings of a Tyro Bard. Fleming, Francis Philip, soldier, gover-

nor, Fla.

was bom

Sept. 28, 1841, in Panama, He served in the civil war; and attained the rank of first lieutenant. He was the fourteenth governor of Florida in 188993. He died in 1908 in Jacksonville, Fla. Fleming, George Elliott, lawyer, composer, author, was born June 20, 1877, in Shelbyville, Ind. In 1899 he graduated with the degree of A.B. from Harvard college; and afterward attended Harvard law school and

Harvard graduate

school.

He

is

engaged

corporation practice in New York and Indiana and is a noted campaign speaker. He is treasurer and director .of the Eastern telegraph and telephone company; a director of the American district telegraph company; and secretary and vice-president of the Southern fuel and iron corporation. He is actively engaged in railroad and mining enterprises in Washington, Idaho, Nevada and Alaska. He has traveled extensively in Europe, making a special study of sociological and economical eonditionis; and is the author of the proposed law providing for the deportation of all aliens convicted of crime. He was on the editorial staflF of the American and English Encyclopaedia of Law; and is the author of the Laws and Decisions Relating to Attorneys. He is also the author of Cecil Gray, a novel; A Beggar in Evening Dress; and is also the composer of The Celebrity and other works. in



Fleming, John, printer. He was one of the publishers of the Boston Chronicle in 1767, the first paper that was published twice a week in New England. He died In Boston. Mass. Fleming, John, lawyer, was born June 1, He received a thorough 1842, In Ireland. education In the public schools and academies; studied law and was admitted to the bar. In 1883 he was

appointed by Governor Cleveland as district

attorney

of

Queens county, N.Y. and was then elected to the same office for three years. He was again appointed to that oflice in 1887 by

Governor

Hill;

and

he was subsequently elected twice to that position. He is one of the foremost criminal lawyers in the state of New York. Fleming, Lucy Ward Randolph, author, poet, was born in 1847 in Brooklyn, N.Y.