Bio of Fletcher, John (b.1831) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Fletcher, John, Lake City, was born in Madison county, New York, February
18, 1831, and is the ninth child of Isaac and Nancy (Brown) Fletcher, who
reared a family of ten to manhood and womanhood, save the first child, a
daughter, who died at the age of sixteen years. They were natives of
Vermont and York State respectively, and died in Madison county, New York.
John's early years were spent on the farm, and his education was completed
with three terms at Hamilton Academy. For seven years his time was
principally employed in teaching school. In 1856 he made a trip to
Minnesota, having been employed to place the machinery in a mill at
Mazeppa. At this time he placed the buhrs* in the first flouring-mill in
this county. The same season he made a claim to a quarter-section of
government land in Goodhue county. In 1860 he became a permanent resident
of this county, settling with his family on a farm in Mazeppa, and three
years later removed to Lake City where he for several years conducted a
hotel. In 1870 he engaged in the grain trade and in 1880 removed his
headquarters to Cass county, Dakota, though he continued to reside here.
January 6, 1858, Mr. Fletcher was united in marriage to Sallie B. Hawks,
who was born in Georgetown, Madison county, New York, whither her
parents-Horace and Hannah (Bardwell) Hawks-removed from Massachusetts in
the earliest period of Georgetown's settlement. To Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher
two children were given, one of whom, Phila L., is now in attendance at
the city schools. The other died in childhood.
*Buhrstone: a siliceous stone used for millstones or a millstone cut from
buhrstone.