Former WV State Senator and a son-in-law of another former WV State Senator, Joel Estes Stollings

WV in Art, History, and Literature (1928), Vol. 3, p. 80:

[FLEMING C. LEFTWICH, attorney at Huntington, is a native of West Virginia and was admitted to the bar in 1889. His practice has brought him in intimate touch with the business and industrial life of the state and he has also been a leading figure in the Republican party for many years. Judge Leftwich was born in Giles County, Virginia, April 17, 1866, son of T. W. and Mary (Porterfield) Leftwich, natives of Virginia. His father was a carpenter by trade and was a Confederate soldier, serving as first lieutenant. He was three times wounded and was captured two times, and was in a northern prison when the war ended. For a number of years he held the office of justice of the peace and he became a Republican after the war: He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Fleming C. Leftwich, third in a family of twelve children, had the limited school advantages of most boys in the years following the close of the Civil war. He attended common schools and select schools and studied law under J. E. Stollings, of Boone County, West Virginia. On being admitted to the bar in 1889 he located in Boone County, and still has an office at Madison in that county. On December 1, 1910, he established his home and office in Huntington. While engaged in general practice, a large part of his time is taken up with his duties as attorney for the Yawkey and Freeman Estates, owners of large interests in land, mines and other properties in Boone, Logan, Lincoln and Mason counties. Judge Leftwich married, December 20, 1893, Miss Minnie Stollings. Her father, Col. J. E. Stollings, was a colonel in the Confederate army and for many years a leading member of the bar of Boone County. Mr. and Mrs. Leftwich have a daughter, Ruby. They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a York and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and served as master of his lodge in Boone County. Judge Leftwich several times was called to the bench to act as special judge, and he served as prosecuting attorney in Boone County, was postmaster of Madison, and a member of the State Senate. Judge Leftwich is a member of the law firm Leftwich & Shaffer at Madison, and of the firm of Leftwich & Meadows, with offices at Huntington in the First National Bank Building.]

Bench and Bar of WV (1919), pp. 358-360:

[Hon. Fleming C. Leftwich Mr. Leftwich was born in Giles County, Virginia, April 17, 1860, and is the son of Tubal W. and Mary (Porterfield) Leftwich; attended the public schools three or four months in winter, and worked on his father's farm the remainder of the year, until he was eighteen years old, when he commenced teaching in the public schools, in winter, and still worked on the farm in summer; came to Boone County, West Virginia, in 1886, where he taught school and studied law until October, 1889, when he was admitted to the Bar at Madison, Boone County, and entered at once into active practice, forming a partnership with Col. Joel E. Stollings, who was then Prosecuting Attorney of Boone County; which partnership continued until the death of Colonel Stollings, in 1897. After the death of Colonel Stollings he formed a partnership with M. A. Byrnside, under the firm name of Leftwich and Byrnside. which continued until 1910, when Mr. Harry G. Shaffer became a member of the firm, and the name was changed to Leftwich, Byrnside and Shaffer, as it now stands. Colonel Stollings had a huge practice, which Mr. Leftwich took hold of as soon as he was admitted to the- Bar, and hold the same, and added to it, after Colonel Stollings' death, practicing, principally, in the Circuit Courts of Boone and Logan counties, in the Supremo Court of Appeals of the State and in the United States Court at Charleston. At the time he was admitted to the Bar land titles wore in n very unsettled condition in his section of the State, and. while he hail a general practice, it was largely made up of cases involving the title to lands, many of which were very important, and would have been notable in any other State, or in the northern or eastern parts of this State. But. arising in this section, they were only considered routine business by a lawyer engaged in general practice. Mr. Leftwich began to take an active part in politics before he was old enough to vote, and was Chairman of the Republican County Committee of Boone County almost continuously from 1888 to 1910. He was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Boone County in 1896, by a small margin, when the county was Democratic by a large majority; declined to stand for re-election, but was prevailed upon to accept the Republican nomination for Representative in the House of Delegates in and was defeated; was elected, on the Republican ticket, to the State Senate, from the Eighth Senatorial District, in order to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Hon. J. A. Browning; was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banks and Corporations, member of the Committee of the Judiciary, and of several other important committees; declined a renomination and has never sought or held any other public office. He aided in the organization of the Madison National Bank of Madison, the first bank organized in Boone County, and was its President until 1910, when he moved to Huntington. Cabell County, and took charge of the legal department of the Yawkey and Freeman land, coal and oil interests, in which he is still engaged. He was married, in 1893, to Miss Minnie, daughter of Col. Joel K. Stollings, and has one child, a daughter. He is a Past Master of Odell Lodge of Freemasons at Madison; member of Tyrean Royal Arch Chapter; Kanawha Commandery No. 4, Knights Templar; and Beni-Kedem Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Charleston; and of Huntington Lodge of Perfection No. 4. Scottish Rite Masonry; also member of Huntington Lodge No. 313, B. P. O. Elks. Although Mr. Leftwich resides in the city of Huntington, he attends all of the sessions of the Circuit Court of Boone County.]

Leftwich-Turner Families of Virginia and Their Connections (1980), p. 166:

[Fleming Crittenden Leftwich, Huntington, W. Va., b. April 17, 1866, married Minnie West Stollings (b. 1871), daughter of Colonel Joel E. Stollings, December 20, 1893 at Madison, W. Va. He was prosecuting attorney of Madison County, W. Va., at one time, and 1906-08 he represented the counties* of Boone, Logan and Kanawha in the State Senate. He is now practicing law in Huntington, W. Va. Issue: (a) Ruby Leftwich, b. 1894.]