Marion County, West Virginia         Biography of CARTER SLOCUM FLEMING, M. D.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 604-605


CARTER SLOCUM FLEMING, M. D., is engaged in the suc-
cessful practice of his profession in his native city of Fair-
mont, Marion County, as a specialist in gynecology and
obstetrics. He was born at Fairmont on the 1st of April,
1891, and is a son of Joseph Perry Fleming and Cora D.
(Fisher) Fleming, the Fleming family having long been one
of prominence and influence in Marion County. The doctor
is a descendant of John Fleming, who, in company with his
three brothers, came from the North of Ireland and settled
on the Delaware River in Pennsylvania in 1741. He took
up a large tract of land in what is now known as Mispillion
Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, and in 1789, with three
of his nephews, he came to what is now West Virginia
and settled on the Monongahela River. The line of descent
to Doctor Fleming is as follows: John, Matthew; Alex-
ander, William B., Francis M. and Joseph Perry. Francis
M. Fleming, grandfather of the doctor, was born at Fair-
mont, in 1821. He learned the shoemaker's trade under
the direction of his father, and eventually engaged in the
retail boot and shoe business at Fairmont, where he con-
tinued a representative citizen and business man until his
death, October 28, 1892. His wife, Sarah A., a daughter
of Henry and Mary Pugh, of Cumberland, Maryland, sur-
vived him by about eight years and passed away in July,
1900. Francis M. Fleming served as a musician in the
Sixth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry (Union) in the
Civil war, and in later years maintained affiliation with the
Grand Army of the Republic. He was a republican, and
he and his wife were members of the Methodist Protestant
Church.

Joseph Perry Fleming was born at Fairmont in the year
1845, and his death occurred November 11, 1911. As a
youth he assisted in his father's shoe store and later he was
for ten years independently engaged in the same line of
business enterprise at Fairmont. In 1898 he was elected
city clerk, his service continuing two years. He then be-
came associated with Charles E. Reed, the firm being for
nine years West Virginia state agents for J. M. Gaffey of
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1910 Mr. Fleming became
secretary of the Monongahela Industrial Company, and of
this office he continued the incumbent until his death, in
the following year. He was affiliated with the Knights of
Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. On
October 23, 1889, he married Cora D. Fisher, who was born
at Fairmont, a daughter of Capt. John Fisher, and she still
resides in her native city. Doctor Fleming is the only child
of this union.

In 1909 Doctor Fleming graduated from the Fairmont
High School, and thereafter he was for one year a student
in the State Normal School in this city. He then entered
the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of
Baltimore, Maryland, in which institution he was gradu-
ated in 1914.  Since receiving his degree of Doctor of
Medicine he has taken post-graduate work each successive
year. He has been established in practice at Fairmont
since 1914, and has been specially successful in his service
as a gynecologist and obstetrician. He is a member of the
Marion County and West Virginia State Medical Societies,
Southern Medical Association, American Medical Associa-
tion, and the American Child Hygiene Association. He
holds membership in the Kiwanis and Country clubs of
Fairmont, and is affiliated with the Elks, Knights of
Pythias, Ancient Order of United Workmen and Knights
of the Maccabees. He and his wife hold membership in
the Methodist Protestant Church in their home city.

Doctor Fleming married Mary Rolena, daughter of the
late James Nuzum, of Fairmont. Mrs. Fleming is a gradu-
ate of the Fairmont High School and West Virginia State
Normal School at Fairmont. Doctor and Mrs. Fleming have
a fine little son, Joseph Smith Fleming, born June 17, 1920.