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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Katherine Fletcher to Family\, 1886 December 14
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include when she might come home, her grades, and editing the club paper.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Andrew Craig Fletcher to Family\, 1864 August 14
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- Creator: Fletcher, Andrew Craig.
- Description: Topics include Andrew Craig's intention to enlist in the Army for $1,500.00 for one year.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Andrew Craig Fletcher to Family\, 1865 February 13
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- Creator: Fletcher, Andrew Craig.
- Description: Topics include and invitation from Sarah and his family's health.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Catherine Smith to Family\, [1885?] January 31
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- Creator: Smith, Catherine.
- Description: Topics include her illness, her wool spinning activities, her son Edward's new house in California, neighborhood illnesses and deaths, the purchase of a battery, Jessie's wedding, and asking the cause of cattle deaths in the Fletcher's area.
- 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
Andrew Craig Fletcher to Family\, 1864 December 4
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- Creator: Fletcher, Andrew Craig.
- Description: Topics include arrests in St. Albans and his plans to go to school.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Andrew Craig Fletcher to Family\, 1864 August 21
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- Creator: Fletcher, Andrew Craig.
- Description: Topics include Andrew Craig's decision not to enlist and his work and other activities in St. Albans, Vermont.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family