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Language
English
Abstract
Papers of Aretas Brooks Fleming (1839-1923), the eighth governor of West Virginia, 1890-1893, who was an attorney in Marion
County, 1863-1867, a member of the House of Delegates, 1872-1875, a circuit judge, 1878-1888. Fleming was closely associated
with James O. Watson in the development of the coal and railroad industry in the Monongahela Valley. There are scattered papers,
including several hundred sermons of Benjamin F. Fleming (1810-1876); one common pleas book; two "Memorandum of Decisions"
books from the law firm of A.B. Fleming; and family genealogical records. Among the correspondents are J.N. Camden, H.G. Davis,
A.G. Dayton, S.B. Elkins, and F.H. Pierpont.
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Aretas Brooks Fleming Papers, A&M 0568, West Virginia and Regional History
Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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