Newton Co., IN Biography


Newton County, Jefferson Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   DAVID S. FLETCHER was born November 30, 1850, in Huntington County,
Indiana, and is the son of George and Jane E. (Binkley) Fletcher, the 
former a native of Virginia, the latter of Ohio.  The father died at 
Lancaster, Indiana, in 1865, he was by trade a potter, and a Republican
politically.  His widow resides in Huntington County, aged sixty-six, a 
member of the German Baptist Church.  Both parents were of German descent.
   Davis S. had poor school advantages.  His father's death necessitating
help at home, he worked at farming until he was eighteen, when he served
three years to farm implement making and general blacksmithing, after
which he commenced for himself at Van Buren, Indiana.  He was in
partnership with Elisha Ford, the firm being Ford and Fletcher.  After
several years, Mr. Fletcher sold to Mr. Ford and went into business at
Marion, Indiana, and subsequently at Kentland, where he has been for ten 
years.  They are now having a run on the Gopher Plow, and have built
more than 250, which have been sent to different points in Indiana and 
Illinois, the demand having exceeded the supply.
   May 6, 1864, Mr. Fletcher married Miss Elizabeth C., daughter of 
John H. and Catharine Hoober.  These parents have two children--Cloyd
H., and Myrtle V.  Mrs. Fletcher belongs to the Methodist Episcopal
Church.  Mr. Fletcher is a member of Damon Lodge, K. of P., No. 72, 
also of No. 396, I.O.O.F., Kentland.


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