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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Willis Hubbard to Katherine Fletcher\, 1885 December 18
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- Creator: Hubbard, Willis.
- Description: Topics include stories Gertrude is telling about him and his desire to take Katherine on a sleigh ride.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Family\, 1885 December 19
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include examinations, school entertainments, the end of term, and her hopes to return to Johnson Normal School next term.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Henrietta Fletcher\, [1887 October 3?]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include doing well on an Arithmetic exam, staying at the school due to a storm, a description of a geography class that is going on in the same room, and her Christmas experiences and gifts.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Carrie Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [1886] December 22
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- Creator: Fletcher, Carrie.
- Description: Topics include whether she will meet Katherine or not and Rhett's illness.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [1886 or 1887?] [May 13]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include money for Mrs. Tracy for Katherine's board, the burial of neighbors, and Katherine having school pictures taken.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [circa 1886 May]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include sending money when Craig receives some from his work and lumber.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [circa 1887 September 29]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include trading and buying livestock.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Henrietta Fletcher\, [circa 1887 September?]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include a concert and lecture, asking Prof. Campbell for money for her board, needing more sleep, losing her hair, her high marks in Arithmetic, a fellow student breaking his leg, asking her mother if she is on Christ's side, needing clothes and money, and seeing her Grandpa in Johnson.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Andrew Craig Fletcher\, [circa 1887]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include asking for money and for more news from home.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Henrietta Fletcher\, undated
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include where she would like to teach the next term and Carrie's injured ankle.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family