[3] Fleming got his start at the age of 13 working for local textile firm, Messrs Edward Baxter and Son.
In time, Fleming had learned enough about investment procedures from Baxter to oversee the firm's American holdings.
[6] A contemporary of J. P. Morgan and a close business associate and friend of Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Fleming was widely known and respected in financial circles on both sides of the Atlantic.
Marie, Ontario, but he had the foresight to associate with the project James Hamet Dunn, who would come to control the works from 1935.
[6] Sir John Fleming, onetime Lord Provost of Aberdeen and later a local MP, was a younger brother.