Lewis L. Fleeger Biography


	This biography appears on page 1685 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	LEWIS L. FLEEGER, an able and representative member of the legal 
profession in Turner county, is a native of the old Keystone state, 
having been born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, on the 12th of 
December, 1864, and being a son of Samuel L. and Mary A. (Pierce) 
Fleeger. When he was but two years of age his parents removed to 
Missouri and located in Cooper county, where his father engaged in 
farming, and in that county the subject secured his early educational 
discipline in the public schools, while he was reared to the sturdy life 
of the homestead farm. He continued his studies for some time in 
Clarksburg College, at Clarksburg, Missouri, and then entered Waynesburg 
College, at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, where he was graduated as a member 
of the class of 1889. receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. After 
his graduation he took up the reading of law in the office of his 
cousin, George Fleeger, of Butler, Pennsylvania, one of the 
representative members of the bar of that section, and under this 
preceptorship continued his technical studies for two years, at the 
expiration of which, in the autumn of 1891, he returned to Missouri, and 
for the following years was engaged as instructor in mathematics in 
Clarksburg College, in which institution he had previously been a 
student, as has been noted in this context. In the autumn of 1892 he 
came to South Dakota and located in the city of Yankton, where he was 
shortly afterward admitted to the bar of the state, and there he was for 
a short interval engaged in the practice of his profession. In the 
spring of 1893 he came to Turner county and located in the village of 
Centerville, where he was engaged in practice about eighteen months, at 
the expiration of which he took up his residence in Parker, the judicial 
center of the county, where he has since been successfully established 
in practice, controlling a large and representative clientage. In 
politics Mr. Fleeger is a stalwart advocate of the principles and 
policies of the Republican party and he is one of its wheelhorses in 
Turner county, having served for the past four years as chairman of the 
Republican central committee of the county and having handled his forces 
with marked skill and discrimination in the furtherance of the interests 
of his party. In the autumn of 1893 he was elected state's attorney of 
the, county and served in this capacity for two terms, or four 
consecutive years, making an admirable record as prosecutor. Fraternally 
he is affiliated with Parker Lodge, No. 30, Ancient Free and Accepted 
Masons. 

	On the 5th of November, 1899, Mr. Fleeger was united in marriage 
to Miss Cliffie M. Elliott, daughter of Judge W. Elliott, of Parker, and 
of this union has been born one son, Samuel Boyd.