C. Fletcher Biography


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C. FLETCHER, a well-known real estate dealer of Aberdeen, South Dakota, 
is one of the most wide-awake and energetic business men of that city. 
Thoroughness and persistency have characterized his entire career, and 
have been supplemented by careful attention to details and by 
honorable, straightforward,effort, that has gained him a most excellent 
and enviable reputation. 

Mr. Fletcher was born in Wabash, Indiana, November 24, 1859, a son of 
Naaman and Elizabeth (Crosby) Fletcher, who removed from Miami county, 
Ohio, to Indiana, about 1852. The father died in Wabash, December 20, 
1864, and in 1865 the mother with their only child, our subject, moved 
to Davenport, Iowa, where she made a permanent home. In that city Mr. 
Fletcher grew to manhood, his education being completed by a high 
school course, and he was later employed in the Davenport National 
Bank. 

On the 10th of March, 1882, he arrived in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and 
located a government claim, which he never proved up however. Locating 
in Aberdeen, he embarked in the real estate business, in which he is 
still engaged, and of recent years has not only dealt in city property 
but also in farm lands, owning at present several fine farms in Brown 
county. In this business he has done much to advance the interests of 
both town and county, and is justly regarded as one of the most 
progressive and public spirited citizens of Aberdeen. In 1893 he became 
connected with the "State Democrat" as editor, and it is now owned by 
the firm of Fletcher & Searle. The paper, which is a weekly journal, 
was started in 1890 by H. T. Craig, who was succeeded by Isaac Pearson, 
and in turn by the present firm. It has always been Democratic in 
politics, and under the present management has become a bright, newsy 
sheet, whose influence is widely felt. 

Socially Mr. Fletcher is a man of prominence, and is a thirty-second-
degree Mason, a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and also 
of the Modern Woodmen of America. As a Democrat he has taken an active 
part in the conventions of his party, and in 1896 was prominent in the 
fusion movement. He has served as clerk of the court for Brown county 
for two years, but the greater part of his time and attention has ever 
been given his business interests.