Fletcher Family
The Fletcher Family collection includes family correspondence from the period 1826-1903 and photographs from circa 1860-1890. The material comes from the Fletcher Family subseries of the Consuelo Northrop Bailey Papers, which contains family papers collected by Consuelo's mother, Katherine Fletcher Northrop.
The correspondence included in this collection was collected by Ruth Allen Colton Fletcher, Henrietta Smith Fletcher, and Katherine Fletcher. Ruth was born in 1810 or 1811 to Lydia and Lemuel Colton of Sharon, VT. She married Andrew Fletcher in 1839, and lived in Waterville, Belvidere, and then Johnson, VT until her death, circa 1903. Her oldest surviving child was Andrew Craig Fletcher, who married Henrietta Smith in 1869. Henrietta was born in 1845 to Catherine and George Smith of Burke, NY. Katherine Fletcher was born in 1870 to Henrietta and Andrew Craig Fletcher of Jeffersonville, VT. She attended Johnson State Normal School from 1885-1887, graduating in January 1888.
The correspondence describes the experiences of several family members who moved west to New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, and California. The correspondents recount in great detail the work of creating and managing their farms in these new states or territories, and many letters give meticulous lists of the prices of land, grains, stock, and groceries. The families in this correspondence endure a great deal of sickness and deaths and these as well as some accounts of their medical treatments are described in the letters. There are a few letters from Enos Fletcher and Charles Hogan that are from the Civil War, and several letters refer to the War and its effects on their communities. There is an account of the "St. Albans Raid" by Ruth's son Andrew Craig Fletcher, who was working in St. Albans at the time. Katherine Fletcher's correspondence with her family and classmates document her life and studies at Vermont's teacher training institution twenty years into its history as such.
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Katherine Fletcher to Carrie Fletcher\, 1887 February 19 and Katherine Fletcher to Henrietta Fletcher
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include Carrie using better spelling and punctuation in her future letters, Carrie's recent illness, a local musical production, a lecture on Naval battles, the founding of a preparatory school where Johnson State Normal School students teach, and difficulty raising money for Katherine's next term.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Gertie Harrington to [Katherine Fletcher]\, 1887 April 12
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- Creator: Harrington, Gertie.
- Description: Topics include her failing eyesight and recollections from when they were schoolmates.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [1887 June 4?]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include Katherine's measles and sending things back and forth with Miss Barton.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Mamie Flagg to Katherine Fletcher\, 1887 September [26]
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- Creator: Flagg, Mamie.
- Description: Topics include joining the church and the Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, attending prayer meetings with boys, and exchanging photographs.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Carrie Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, 1887 September 8
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- Creator: Fletcher, Carrie.
- Description: Topics include her school, the birth of a baby in the neighborhood, and new shoes, stockings, and print dress (with enclosed sample of fabric).
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Invoice from D.C. Heath & Co. to Katherine Fletcher\, 1887 October 1 and Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta., D.C. Heath & Co.
- Description: Topics include paying the enclosed invoice, Andrew Craig taking the cattle, and Carrie getting her dress.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
[Jennie Perry] to Katherine Fletcher\, [1888] February 10
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- Creator: Perry, Jennie.
- Description: Topics include her activities since graduation, her desire to teach in the summer, recalling an "episode" involving cars, and the illness of Mrs. Campbell.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Joe [s.n.] to Katherine Fletcher\, 1888 March 7
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- Creator: [s.n.], Joe.
- Description: Topics include his hurt hand, town meeting in Johnson, VT, and recollections of good times with Katherine.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Tom [Guild] to Katherine Fletcher\, 1888 March 18
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- Creator: Guild, Tom.
- Description: Topics include going to balls, visiting female friends, the activities of former classmates, the possibility meeting classmate Bugbee in Minnesota and continuing west to Washington Territory, and Katherine's various male friends.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Tom [Guild] to Katherine Fletcher\, 1888 April 15
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- Creator: Guild, Tom.
- Description: Topics include Katherine's treatment of various young men, the possibility that she will go west, the activities and fortunes of various former schoolmates, his rehearsal of a play, recollections of when they were at Johnson State Normal School, and his chance to take a teaching position in a "graded" school.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family