. Leslie's history of the greater New York . dmitttMl tothe Pennsylvania bar, while hewas admitted to the New Yorkbar, in New York City, in .March,1867. He has ]>racticed law in Brooklyn continuously since lln latterdate, ac(|uiring a large real estate and commeicial business, lie iscounsel and one of the trustees of the Kings County Trust was a])pointed General Ajtpraiser of the Ioit of New York byPresident Cleveland, January ;{, 1885, and adnnnistered rhe oflice withal)iliry until ISSII, when, ujion the exjiiratioii of Mr. Clevcdands firstterm, he resigned. In .Inly, , he
. Leslie's history of the greater New York . dmitttMl tothe Pennsylvania bar, while hewas admitted to the New Yorkbar, in New York City, in .March,1867. He has ]>racticed law in Brooklyn continuously since lln latterdate, ac(|uiring a large real estate and commeicial business, lie iscounsel and one of the trustees of the Kings County Trust was a])pointed General Ajtpraiser of the Ioit of New York byPresident Cleveland, January ;{, 1885, and adnnnistered rhe oflice withal)iliry until ISSII, when, ujion the exjiiratioii of Mr. Clevcdands firstterm, he resigned. In .Inly, , he was aisjiointed by .Mayor Chapin one of the Park Goi issioner^- of the Gity of , uiidei- the law limiting th*^ Park (ommissioners to three, and by his colleagueswas at once elected President of the Board. Subsequently, the ParkDejiartment being made a single-headed conmussion, Mr. Brower wasa])pointed the (oiiiiiiissione]-, and retained (he jxisition until Pebruary1, Lsitl. \lv was one of the oruanizers and original members of the. (>; served for six years as a member of theBoard of Trustees of that village, and on October 27, 1883, was ap-pointed by Governor Grover Cleveland District Attorney of QueensCounty, New York, to succeed B. W. Downing, wlio had been removedfrom office. In November of the same year 31 r. Flenuug becamethe Democratic nominee for the same office, and was elected for theterm of three years. His administration was signalized by his sticcess-ful prosectition of a plieuomenally large number of murder successor in office, Thomas F. Gowan, having been removed with-in tliree montlis, in August, 1S87, Mr. Fleming was once more ap-jjointeil District ,\ttorney, this time by Governor Hill, while
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