Warren D. Fleming

    Warren D. Fleming was born in this county (Warren), May 4, 1850, and is a son of James and Lucinda (Purviana) Fleming; the former a native of Ohio, the latter of Tennessee; the father died in 1853, the mother in 1877. The parents of Warren came to this township (Pike) in 1827, and were truly pioneers.

    Mr. Fleming received but little schooling, yet he has, by diligence acquired a practical education. After he became of age, he commenced the grocery business at West Lebanon, in company with R. P. Adams; this, after three months, he renounced for farming, and in 1873 purchased the family homestead, on which he began the manufacture of tiles, under the firm name of Fleming, Hamar & Co.

    On April 16, 1871, he was married to Miss Ettie French, by whom he had one child -Harry L. Mr. Fleming, in 1882, began making tile by the steam-drying process, the firm having manufactured 300,000 during that year, and has since increased its facilities for the work. Mr. Fleming is a radical Republican, and gave his first Presidential vote for Gen. Grant.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.