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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Miniature of Moses S. Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher\, 1860 January 29
Moses S. Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher\, 1860 January 29
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    • Creator: Colton, Moses Shepard.
    • Description: Topics include the various prices of crops and land in Indiana, the state of his farm and finances, the state of Lemuel's farm and finances, Lyman's preaching, and Verona's and Seth's families activities.
    • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
    Miniature of Mary Harvey to Ruth and Andrew Fletcher\, 1860 November 3
    Mary Harvey to Ruth and Andrew Fletcher\, 1860 November 3
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      • Creator: Harvey, Mary.
      • Description: Topics include their activities starting a farm in Malcom Iowa, the good land and good prospects of the country, and the nearness of Iowa State College in Grinnell.
      • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
      Miniature of Lemuel Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher\, 1860 June 21
      Lemuel Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher\, 1860 June 21
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        • Creator: Colton, Lemuel.
        • Description: Topics include the health and activities of his household, the birth of Verona's girl, Evaline, the marriage of Lyman to Nancy Whistler, the state of his farm and that of Moses Shepard's and the death of their daughter 2 years previous.
        • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
        Miniature of Andrew Fletcher and Ruth Fletcher photographic portrait
        Andrew Fletcher and Ruth Fletcher photographic portrait
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          • Creator: Carey, E.M.
          • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
          Miniature of [Mary Harvey?] to Ruth and Andrew Fletcher\, 1860 January 19
          [Mary Harvey?] to Ruth and Andrew Fletcher\, 1860 January 19
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            • Creator: Harvey, Mary.
            • Description: Topics include the prices of grains and stocks in Illinois, the village conditions and organizations, and the state of their farm. This letter is a fragment: the final page or pages are missing, including the closing signature. The attribution of authorship is based on the handwriting and topics of the letter.
            • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family