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Louise Celia Fleming
Louise Celia "Lulu" Fleming (January 28, 1862 – June 20, 1899) was an American Medical Doctor, medical doctor. She was one of the first African Americans to graduate from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She returned from Africa to improve her skills and she was the first African American woman to be commissioned for work in Africa by the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. Biography Fleming was born on January 28, 1862 to Slavery in the United States, enslaved parents on Col. Lewis Michael Fleming's Hibernia Plantation complexes in the Southern United States, Plantation in Hibernia, Florida, Hibernia, Clay County, Florida, Clay County, Florida. Fleming's parents had unique backgrounds; her mother was half Congolese Americans, Congolese and her father was half white. When Fleming was young, her father fought with the Union Army during the American Civil War and died after two years of service. In December o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleming Island, Florida
Fleming Island is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Clay County, Florida, United States. It is located southwest of downtown Jacksonville, on the western side of the St. Johns River, off US 17. As of the 2010 census the Fleming Island CDP had a population of 27,126. Fleming Island's ZIP code became 32003 in 2004, giving it a different code from Orange Park, the incorporated town to the north. History Fleming Island was an area of Florida settled by Irish immigrant, George Fleming (1760-1821), who received a 1,000-acre land grant from the Spanish governor of East Florida for his military service. George Fleming built a plantation in 1790 and it was named Hibernia Plantation (in what is now Hibernia, Florida), after the Latin word for Ireland. When he died in 1821, the plantation was left to his son, Col. Lewis Michael Fleming (1798-1862). In 1942, when the area was undeveloped, the U.S. Navy constructed four asphalt runways on the site and establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |