Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 7 February 2005

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J. C. FLEMING, M. D., Carlisle Station, was born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., Dec. 13, 1826. At an early age, his parents, Matthew and Eliza J. (Caldwell) Fleming, removed to Monongahela City, where he passed his youth and early manhood, receiving his classical training in the schools of that place, and in Jefferson College, from which he graduated in 1845; he taught one year, then took up the study of medicine under the instructions of Dr. J. C. Connelly, with whom he remained two years; he then took a course of lectures in the regular Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio. In 1849, he came to Deerfield, Warren Co., and practiced till 1852, when he came to Carlisle; he attended medical college of Cleveland a second term, and graduated as Doctor of Medicine in March, 1861; he then returned to Carlisle and resumed his profession. He was married in Pennsylvania, to Eliza J. Johnson, daughter of John and Rachel Johnson, born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., Jan, 11, 1831: they have eight children, viz., Edward M., Mary I., Libbie R., Thomas W., Maggie, William J., Jennie E. and Joseph J. Dr. Fleming and wife are members of the New Jersey Presbyterian Church of Carlisle. Politically, the Doctor is a close adherent to the principles and doctrines of the Republican party.