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Matthew C. Fleming

Lawyer

Centurion, 1920–1946

Full Name Matthew Corry Fleming

Born 24 June 1864 in Xenia, Ohio

Died 20 February 1946 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, New Jersey

Proposed by Wilson Farrand and Henry W. Jessup

Elected 1 May 1920 at age fifty-five

Century Memorial

Matthew Corry Fleming. [Born] 1864. Lawyer.

He led an active and accomplishing life as a lawyer, doing his fair share of public service as assistant corporation of New York City in the gas investigation of 1905 and in the insurance investigation that followed.

A member of our Association for more than a quarter of a century, he came seldom to the Club-house. He was a Trustee of Princeton University for over thirty years and was a Trustee and Secretary of the Presbyterian Hospital.

Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia

Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1946 Memorials