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Born 1848, Huntingdon county
From Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905), History of Des Moines County, Iowa (1915)
JOHN C. FLEMING, M. D.
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From 1880 until 1886 he served as county ])physician for Des Moines county, and for two years of that time was also city physician and health officer. About 1888 he was appointed local surgeon for the Chicago, luirlington & Quincy Railroad, and has since acted in that capacity. He is also examiner for the New York Life Insurance Company, and for a similar ])period. fifteen or twenty years. he has been thus connected with the Ivcjuitable
Life Assurance Society, of New N'ork, and the.Mutual Benefit Insurance Com- I)any. of New Jersey. He performs ail this professional service in addition to the duties of a large general practice. He has never had a partner, and his success has come in direct recognition of his professional skill and ability, won through careful )preliminary preparation and thorough investigation and broad study since leaving college. He keeps in touch with the advanced thought and improved methods of the profession, and has practiced along scientific lines, with the result that his labors have been most effective in checking the ravages of disease and alleviating human suffering. He has, too, the strictest regard for a high standard of professional ethics, and therefore commands the respect and confidence of his professional brethren. He belongs to the Des Moines.Medical Society and the.American Medical.Association. In his political views and affiliations he is an inde])endeiit Democrat.
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As printed in Biographical review of Des Moines County, Iowa (1905). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
JOHN CALVIN FLEMING, M. D.
Modern thought and investigation have reached the conclusion that not the good that comes to us but the good that comes to the world through us is the measure of our success; and judged by this standard, the life record of Dr. John Calvin Fleming was a most successful one, for his life was the expression of good deeds, of kindly purposes, of noble thought and generous action. To know him but slightly was to esteem and honor him; to come within the closer circle of his acquaintance was to entertain for him the warmest friendship and love, for his life ever measured up to the highest standards of manhood and citizenship.
He was a native of Pennsylvania, born in Huntingdon county on the 24th of November, 1848. His ancestors had lived in that locality through several generations. His great-grandfather, who was the progenitor of the American branch of the family, died at sea while on his way from the north of Ireland. His family completed the voyage and established their home in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, where many of his descendants have since lived. James Fleming, the father of Dr. Fleming, was a silk knitter who spent his
As printed in History of Des Moines County, Iowa (1915). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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