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 Lyman Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher\, 1875 February 9
Lyman Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher\, 1875 February 9
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    • Creator: Colton, Lyman.
    • Description: Topics include the death of his father Moses in 1868, the death of his sister Verona in 1872, his abuse as a boy at the hands of Enos Fletcher, his children and wife and their health, and the devestation in Kansas from the grasshoppers and the resulting famine and poverty affecting his family.
    • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
    Miniature of Lemuel Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher\, 1875 August 30
    Lemuel Colton to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher\, 1875 August 30
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      • Creator: Colton, Lemuel.
      • Description: Topics include the weather and crops and prices in Indiana, and his nephew Lyman's experiences with the grasshoppers in Kansas.
      • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
      Miniature of Mary Harvey photographic portrait
      Mary Harvey photographic portrait
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        • Creator: Merrill, [s.n.].
        • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
        Miniature of Andrew Craig Fletcher and Henrietta Fletcher photographic portrait
        Andrew Craig Fletcher and Henrietta Fletcher photographic portrait
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          • Creator: Unidentified.
          • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
          Miniature of Edward C. Smith to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1875 September 5
          Edward C. Smith to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1875 September 5
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            • Creator: Smith, Edward C.
            • Description: Topics include Edward's work managing the grocery department of the farmers' union, his intention to hunt in the mountains, the poor condition of the sugar that Craig sent, the birth of another child, and his acquisition of a house.
            • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
            Miniature of Catherine Smith to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1875 January 15
            Catherine Smith to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1875 January 15
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              • Creator: Smith, Catherine.
              • Description: Topics include a sore and a school teacher boarding with her mother.
              • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family