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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Clara Gris to Katherine Fletcher\, 1885 June 11
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- Creator: Gris, Clara.
- Description: Topics include finding baby birds in a field and plans to go berry picking.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1885 June 11
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include a request for her mother to visit.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Harry [Fallangton?] to Katherine Fletcher\, 1885 November 4
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- Creator: [Fallangton?], Harry.
- Description: Topics include pranks students play on teachers and the nearness of the end of term.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Carrie Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, 1885 November 19 and Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher
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- Creator: Fletcher, Carrie., Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include Carrie trying to get to Johnson, VT, and receiving her dolls for her birthday, and Dell's illness.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Addie Melvin to Katherine Fletcher\, 1885 December 9
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- Creator: Melvin, Addie.
- Description: Topics include recovering her rubbers.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Willis Hubbard to Katherine Fletcher\, [circa 1885] November 10
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- Creator: Hubbard, Willis.
- Description: Topics include Katherine's new male friend, whom she described in French, Willis' plans to take a school in Morrisville, VT, and the probability that he will no longer attend the lodge functions.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [1886] December 28
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include Rhett's nervous illness and using a battery to help him.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [circa 1886 September]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include Katherine's board, heavy rain, and telling Katherine not to be lonely.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [1886 or 1887?] April 15 and Carrie Maude to Katherine Fletcher
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta., Maude, Carrie.
- Description: Topics include finishing Katherine's dress, Carrie's health and Maying, and staying the night with Carrie Maude.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Family\, [circa November 1887]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include entertaining gentlemen friends from school at their boarding house, her parts in a class reception at Normal Hall, purchasing shoes for the occasion, and asking Prof. Campbell for money for her board.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family