Biographies:  John Bernard FLEMING, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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John Bernard Fleming, mayor of Eau Claire, was born in the village of this 
name, June 27, 1866, to Michael and Catherine Fleming, and is of Irish 
descent.  His father was born in Buffalo, New York, and his mother in 
Washington county, Wisconsin.  They settled in Eau Claire in 1865.

Mayor Fleming was educated in the parochial and public schools, entered 
the law office of Levi M. Vilas in 1884, and was graduated from the law 
department of the Minnesota State University, and was admitted to practice 
in the state and federal courts of Minnesota in 1889, and to the state and 
federal courts of Wisconsin in 1891.  He became cashier of the Union Savings 
bank of Eau Claire, and secretary of the Union Mortgage & Loan Company in 
1907, resigning when elected mayor in 1910 for a term of six years, and is 
the first mayor of Eau Claire and Wisconsin to serve under the new commission 
form of government.  He was associated in practice with George L. Blum for 
ten years, was private secretary for Hon. William F. Vilas 1891 and 1892; 
register of the United States land office in Eau Claire 1895-1900.  He is 
a member of the Elks, the Knights of Columbus and St. Patrick's church.  He 
married Edith S. Robinson at Milwaukee, December 12, 1894, and has one 
daughter -- Edith Marion.        

--Taken from "The History of Eau Claire County, 1914, Past & Present",
page 299.