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A Poor Man's Biography: Bernhard Fleming's Long Life
Bernhard Fleming, 92, of Wellsville, born in Germany, records his life from immigrating to the United States to homesteading in Kansas, chronicling a century of work, family, and memory in a 90 page manuscript titled A Poor Man's Biography. His wife Josephine notes he began the work 18 years ago and has suffered strokes, now bedridden, with limited speech but rich past reflections.
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Bernhard Fleming
Red Jacket
Germany
Statue of Liberty
Kansas
Josephine
Bernice Holden
Wellsville