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Fleming, David C – Fletcher, Duncan Upshaw

Fleming, David C

educator, public officer, was born March 22, 1855, in Huntington, Ind. He was a farmer and teacher until 1883 in his native state, and then emigrated to Colorado. He has been county superintendent of schools and has filled numerous other public offices in Sterling, Col.

Fleming, Francis P

soldier, governor, was born Sept. 28, 1841, in Panama, Fla. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of first lieutenant. He was elected governor of Florida in 1888, and was inaugurated in 1889.

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.

Fleming, Maybury

dramatic critic.

He is a dramatic critic, on the editorial staff of the New York Mail and Express.

Fleming, Thomas

soldier, was born in 1727, in Botetourt county, Va. He was a revolutionary soldier, and attained the rank of colonel. He died in August, 1776.

Fleming, William

jurist, congressman, was born in 1734. He became judge of the general court and presiding judge of the court of appeals; and served as a delegate from Virginia to the continental congress in 1779-81. He died February 2, 1824.

Fleming, Williamina Paton

astronomer, author, was born May 15, 1857, in Scotland. In 1879 she became connected with the Harvard college observatory.

She is the author of a work entitled Annals of the Observatory.

Flenniker, Robert P

jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed a justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah, residing at Salt Lake City.

FLETCHER, ALICE CUNNINGHAM, ethnologist, was born about 1845 in Boston, Mass. Under the care of the Woman's National Indian association, Miss Fletcher established a system by which small sums of money were lent to such Indians as wished to buy tracts of land and build houses. She has published numerous papers and monographs.

Fletcher, Asaph

physician, was born June 28, 1746, in Westford, Mass.

He was elected in 1780 to the convention that framed the constitution of Massachusetts, and labored earnestly to introduce into that instrument the principle of absolute freedom of worship. He died Jan. 5, 1839, in Cavendish, Vt.

Fletcher, Austin Barclay

lawyer, was born March 13, 1852, in Mendon, Mass. He was treasurer and later president of the leading corporation in the wool and leather business in New York city.

FLETCHER, BENJAMIN. He was governor of New York, and lived in the seventeenth century.

Fletcher, Charles

manufacturer, was born Nov. 20, 1840, in England. He has erected one building after another, until six large mills now stand upon the grounds of the Providence Worsted Mill company. Other industrial interests have been managed and promoted by him, including the Saranac, the National and the Fulton Worsted mills, and in 1886 he bought the Narragansett hotel, the principal public house in Providence.

Fletcher, Duncan Upshaw

lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 6, 1859, in Sumter county, Ga. He is a successful lawyer of Jacksonville, Fla.; was president of the city council in 1889-91; mayor of that city in 1893-95; and in 1893 served with distinction as a member of the Florida state legislature.