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EDWARD
J. FLEMING
Edward
J. Fleming, successful attorney of Los Angeles, with office at 354 South Spring
Street, has been a representative member of the legal profession in southern
California during the past thirty-six years.
He has also manifested an active interest in the business life of Los
Angeles, being now (1933) president of the Downtown Business Men’s Association
of this city. Mr. Fleming was born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 18, 1872, a son of Peter and Margaret (Coleman)
Fleming, who established their home in the Golden state in 1874. Peter Fleming saw and realized that water was
“king” in California and became a very successful developer of water in the San
Jose Valley, at Pomona and Ontario. He
passed away in 1898, being for a third of a century survived by his wife, whose
death occurred in 1931.
Edward
J. Fleming, who was but two years of age when brought by his parents to
southern California, supplemented his public school education by special work
at Pomona College. He took up the study
of law and in 1897 was admitted to the bar.
He served as city attorney of Pomona for two terms, was deputy district
attorney from 1903 until 1908 and held the office of city prosecuting attorney
in Los Angeles from 1908 until 1910. He
is widely recognized as one of Los Angeles’ most able and learned lawyers and
is accorded a most gratifying clientele.
Aside from his professional work he is now serving as president of the
Los Angeles Downtown Business Men’s Association and as a director of the Better
Business Bureau and the Central Business Men’s Association. He is also an active member of the Chamber of
Commerce.
In
1898 Mr. Fleming was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude V. Dennis, of Nebraska. Their home, one of the most beautiful in
southern California, is at San Marino.
Mr. Fleming gives his political support to the Republican Party and
fraternally is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen of
America, the Knights of the Maccabees and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has many warm friends among his fellow
members of the Los Angeles Athletic Association and the San Gabriel Country
Club, and along strictly professional lines he has membership in the Los
Angeles, California State and American Bar Associations.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 691-692,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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