H Fletcher

FLETCHER, JOHNSON

Posted By: Deborah Barker (email)
Date: 8/29/2009 at 17:41:16

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

H. FLETCHER, of Strunk & Fletcher, proprietors of Udell Mills; born in Vinton Co., Ohio, Jan 5, 1850; removed to Davis Co., Iowa, in 1866, where he engaged in milling until 1867, when he went to Hancock Co., Ill., where he was engaged in selling patent rights through the State until 1871; then returned to Davis Co. and again engaged in milling until 1872, when he came to Udell Tp., this county, and purchased a half interest in the aboe mill, where he has since been as attentive to the wants and requirements of the public as possible. He married Miss Catharine L. Johnson in 1872; she was born in Davis Co., Iowa, in 1854, where her parents, John and Elizabeth J., were early settlers from Indiana, near Danville, having settled there in 1848. They have three children - Clement, born in 1873; Bertha, born in 1876; Ranaldo, born in 1878. Democratic. Member of the A.F.&A.M., No. 86, Drakeville. P.O. Unionville.