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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Edward C. Smith to Katherine Fletcher\, 1888 March 26
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- Creator: Smith, Edward C.
- Description: Topics include planning a trip East, Uncle Bent's decision to return to Burke, NY, his desire for sugar on snow, and Katherine's plans.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
C.P. Hogan to Katherine Fletcher\, 1888 March 28
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- Creator: Hogan, C.P.
- Description: Topics include forwarding her teaching application to the appropriate person with favorable remarks.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Will Newcomb to Katherine Fletcher\, 1888 April 3
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- Creator: Newcomb, Will.
- Description: Topics include having been close friends with Katherine, inquiries about the class letter and former classmates, and public events in the Johnson town and school communities.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Joe [s.n.] to [Katherine Fletcher]\, 1888 April 17
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- Creator: [s.n.], Joe.
- Description: Topics include a earlier visit he made Katherine, whether a friend found out about his visit, and his love for her.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Tom [Guild] to Katherine Fletcher\, 1888 May 5
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- Creator: Guild, Tom.
- Description: Topics include playing ball instead of going to church, Katherine and Fred Ober's relationship, lumber companies sending logs down the river and the wild behavior of the loggers, fellow former schoolmates, and possibly meeting at Johnson in June.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Viola [Allen?] to Katherine Fletcher\, 1888 May 26
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- Creator: Allen, Viola.
- Description: Topics include her father's pneumonia, her students, the subjects she enjoys teaching, morning exercises, class behavior, and her sister's progress at Normal school.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Tom [Guild] to Katherine Fletcher\, 1888 June 17
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- Creator: Guild, Tom.
- Description: Topics include recollections of school days, news about former schoolmates, and plans to meet Katherine at the graduation ceremony in Johnson in a week.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Mary Harvey to Ruth and Andrew Fletcher\, [1850?] January 13
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- Creator: Harvey, Mary.
- Description: Topics include her trip home previously and the entertaining she did, the activities of her brothers Cornelius and Levi, attending the New Years Ball in Peacham, and church meetings in the schoolhouse.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Lue Colton to Ruth Fletcher\, [circa 1893] February 23
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- Creator: Colton, Lue.
- Description: Topics include the hard winter they are having in Pleasant Lake, Indiana, how Della and her children are doing, and their plans to attend the World's Fair in Chicago.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Tom Guild photographic portrait
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- Creator: Merrill, [s.n.].
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family