BIOGRAPHIES: Edward FLEMING, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by:  oldstufn@hotmail.com  on  9 July 2005
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Edward Fleming, who is operating a farm of 240 acres lying partly in
Pepin and partly in Buffalo county, was born in Madison, Wis., May
27, 1862, son of Michael and Elizabeth (Burns) Fleming. There parents
were natives of Ireland, the father born March 15, 1835, and his wife
a few years earlier. Michael Fleming, who came to this country about
1853, in early life was a railroad man. He and his wife settled on
the farm now owned by their son Edward when it consisted of wild land
without improvements. With courage and resolution he faced the
pioneer task of developing a far, and in time succeeded,. His wife
proving a worthy helpmate. In 1900 he sold the property to his son
and took up his residence in Mondovi, where he remained for a few
years, afterwards returning to the farm on which his death occurred
in 1916. His wife is now also deceased. Edward Fleming was the third
born of four children. He attended school in Canton township, Buffalo
county, and for a number of years subsequently resided with his
parents. He then went to Plainview, Minn., where he spent two years
engaged in threshing. Returning home at the end of that time, he took
charge of the parental homestead, which he purchased in 1900. Forty
acres of the farm lie in section 34, Lima township, Pepin county, and
the other 200 acres in Canton township, Buffalo county, the boundary
line between the two counties passing through his farm, and Mr.
Fleming’s residence standing on the Buffalo county side of the road.
He is doing a successful business in general farming, having a well-
improved place with good buildings and modern implements and
machinery, and is one of the prosperous citizens of this locality. In
religion, Mr. Fleming is a Catholic, and his society affiliations
include membership in the Catholic Order of Foresters. In politics he
is independent.

-Transcribed from the "History of Buffalo and Pepin Counties
Wisconsin, 1919," page 640

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