Plumas County CA Archives Biographies.....Fletcher, A. W. 1842 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

A. W. FLETCHER, son of Francis and Elizabeth Fletcher, was born at Richmond,
Indiana, July 2, 1842. His father was engaged in the hardware business at the
time of his birth. After attending the common schools, our subject passed five
terms at Earlham college, Richmond. At the age of eighteen he commenced to learn
the blacksmithing trade, and was so engaged three years. At the age of
twenty-one he went to St. Louis, but soon returned to his home. In December,
1874, he came to California. He soon went to Nevada, and worked at his trade in
various places, principally at Virginia City. In October, 1877, he came to
Taylorville, where he conducted a blacksmith shop till October, 1881, when he
sold out and bought the farm known as the Farra ranch, in the north arm of
Indian valley. In 1868 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Peele of Cambridge,
Indiana, by whom he has had one son.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)

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