FLETCHER, R. E., b 1844; 1905 Bio, Mesa County, Colorado

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Donated August 2001

Transcribed by Judy Crook <jlcrook@rof.net> from the book:

Progressive Men of Western Colorado 

Published 1905, A.W. Bowen & Co., Chicago, Ill.



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R.E. Fletcher

	R. E. Fletcher, head of the firm of Fletcher & Peugh, owners and operators of

one of the leading flour-mills in Mesa county, this state, and a man of

influence and prominence in the commercial, industrial and public life of the

community in which he lives, was born in Pennsylvania in 1844, and is the son of

William and Sarah (Hague) Fletcher, who were also born and reared in the

Keystone state.  The father was a skillful blacksmith there, and wrought at his

craft until late in life, laying down his trust at the age of eighty-four years. 

The mother died in 1880, aged about sixty years.  They were the parents of eight

children, and did the best they could to prepare their offspring for the battle

of life, giving them all a good district-school education as far as

circumstances permitted.  At the age of twenty-two, their son who is the

immediate subject of this writing, having learned his trade at Elizabethtown,

Pennsylvania, started a business of his own as a blacksmith in Illinois, where

he remained and prosecuted his work successfully for a period of three years. 

He then moved to Kansas, and after eleven years of successful and profitable

blacksmithing in that state, came to Colorado, locating in 1883 in Grand

Junction, where he was engaged in the hotel business over a year, being among

the pioneers of the place.  Later he engaged in the agricultural implement

business and in 1899 came to the Plateau valley, where he has ever since

resided.  In partnership with Mr. Peugh, he started the enterprise in which they

are now engaged, inaugurating it in 1899.  The venture has been more successful

than they expected, and they entered on it with good hopes of profit; but it has

been conducted with skill and vigor, laying all means of vitality under tribute

and using every force at the command of the proprietors to meet the demands of

its resources.  Mr. Fletcher has been active and forceful in public affairs, and

served the county with ability and fidelity four years as treasurer.  He was

married in 1867 to Miss Ellen Peltman, of Salem, Illinois.  They are the parents

of five children, George, Ollie, Archie, Alvin and Nonie.  Mr. Fletcher is

widely known throughout the county and is everywhere highly respected, as he

well deserved to be, being one of the leading men of his section.



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