Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Fletcher, Charles W. 1827 - 
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CHARLES W. FLETCHER, Section 28; P. O. Bangor; born in Crawford Co., Penn., in 
1827; he is the son of Charles and Mary Fletcher; his parents removed to 
Illinois in 1838; they lived in Chicago the following winter, and settled in 
Kane Co., Ill.; his parents had twelve children, eight of whom - five sons and 
three daughters - are living. Charles came to La Crosse Co., and entered land 
in the northern part of the town of Burns. But this he soon sold, and, with 
his brother Sebastian, made a location near Burns' Corners. He returned to 
Illinois, where he remained till 1856, when he returned, and has since been a 
resident of the town of Burns; he bought his present farm of Jefferson 
Gifford, and has 360 acres of land. He was married to Ruth Ann Field, daughter 
of Norman Field; she was born in Cornwall, Vt., in 1835; she went to Kane Co., 
Ill., in 1851, and engaged in teaching; she was engaged in this occupation for 
a number of years in Northern Illinois. She came to Wisconsin in the fall of 
1856. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher have five children - Cephas J., Kittie M., Ella 
F., Charles W. and Orion S.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 844.

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