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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Mamie Flagg to Katherine Fletcher\, 1886 October and name card
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- Creator: Flagg, Mamie.
- Description: Topics include a dance at which Mamie and a friend embarrassed a boy, a prank that she and a friend played at their boarding school, and how much she likes her school (Bakersfield Academy).
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, 1886 December 12
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include her healing foot, Rhett's nervous disorder and their attempts to treat it, and a request that Katherine attend a Templar Oyster dinner.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1887 March 19
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include a fellow boarder moving out and needing money.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Carrie Fletcher\, 1887 April 30
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include a school reception she helped organize, preparing for her piece in the B exhibition, and encouragement for Carrie to try to get her teacher to like her.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Ida Barton to Andrew Craig Fletcher\, 1887 June 22
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- Creator: Barton, Ida.
- Description: Topics include needing to give up her teaching position in Jeffersonville due to poor health.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1887 October 1
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include activities at her boarding house, an evening jubilee with Fred Ober and friends, her schoolwork and grades, church functions and religious desires, the teachers at various local schools, her father's harsh language to her, and naming the baby Bessie.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, 1887 December 18
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include the completion of Katherine's dress, Andrew Craig's travels, the death and burial of a girl named Simmons, and social visits.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1888 January 9
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include raising money to pay for her board and tuition, the long hours she has been studying, and preparing her delivery of "The Chimes of St. Nicholas" for the graduation exercises.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Joe [s.n.] to Katherine Fletcher\, 1888 March 19
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- Creator: [s.n.], Joe.
- Description: Topics include his healed hand and resumed work at the mill, attending a reception, and his plans to visit Katherine in Jeffersonville the next Sunday.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Carrie Carroll to Sheldon Prudential Committee\, 1888 March 30
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- Creator: Carroll, Carrie.
- Description: Topics include Katherine Fletcher's qualifications for a teaching position in Sheldon.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family