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JOHN FLEMING, manufacturer, Pittsburgh, founder of the largest establishment in Pittsburgh for the manufacture of pressed and japanned wares, now under the firm name of Fleming & Hamilton, was born in Pine Creek township, this county, Aug. 28, 1823, and is a son of Andrew and Jane (Murry) Fleming, natives of Pennsylvania, who, in 1815, settled at Pine Creek, where for many years the father operated a gristmill, and for the first few years a distillery. The father died in 1858, aged seventy-six years; the mother died in 1853, aged sixty-two years. Andrew Fleming was the paternal grandfather of John Fleming, and his maternal grandfather was David Murry. Mr. Fleming, the subject of this sketch, received a common free-school education, and in 1840 learned the trade he has since built up, of John Dunlap. Three years later, in 1849, he began business for himself on the lot where his factory now stands, corner of Third avenue and Market street, and three years later admitted a partner, whom he bought out the next year. He next admitted Joseph Kranz as partner, and afterward Edward Agnew and John Hamilton, under firm name of Fleming, Agnew & Co., which continued until 1884, when it became Fleming & Hamilton. Their business has grown to vast proportions, and they now ship goods to Boston, New York, San Francisco, and all parts of the United States. Mr. Fleming was married, in 1845, to Jane Dunlap, sister of John Dunlap, by whom he has three living children, viz.: John, Mary Louisa and Nettie Jane. His wife died in 1861, and in 1862 he married Rachel Rutherford, who is the mother of six children: Charles P. (now in Wyoming), Frank H., Harry R., Sadie Y., Thomas B. and Glen H. Mr. and Mrs. Fleming are members of the U. P. Church; politically he is a republican, as are all of his boys who are of age.