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Fleming, William Henry

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 18, 1856, in Augusta, Ga. He was elected superintendent of the public schools of Augusta and Richmond county, Ga., in 1877-80. He was elected to the state legislature from Richmond county in 1888, 1890, and 1892, and again elected in 1894, and was speaker of the house. He was elected president of the Georgia State Bar association in 1894, and at the annual meeting in 1895 delivered an address on the Ethics of the Bar in Relation to the State. He was chosen in 1895 grand commander of the Knights Templar for the state of Georgia, and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

FLEMING, WILLIAM MAYBURY, actor, was born Sept. 29, 1817, in Danbury, Conn. He became known chiefly for his personations of Romeo, Claude Melnotte, Edgar in King Lear, the Bastard in King John, Hamlet, Richelieu, Sir Giles Overreach, Sir Edward Mortimer, Mathias in The Bells, Rolla, Jack Cade, and a few special roles of poetic character. He died May 7, 1866, in New York.