From Biographical History of Tippecanoe, White,
Jasper, Newton,
Benton, Warren and Pulaski Counties,
Indiana. Lewis Publishing Company 1899.
Pages 935-936
ROBINSON FLETCHER
Mr. Fletcher, who is a prominent and successful
farmer, living about four miles south of Boswell,
Benton county, Indiana, was born in Greene county,
Ohio, March 22, 1824, and was the youngest but one in
a family of seven children born to Robertson and
Katherine (Wooding) Fletcher. He is of Scotch-English
and German stock, his grandparents, William R. and
Sarah Fletcher, being respectively of the
nationalities indicated, and the maternal grandfather
also being a German. Our subject's father, Robertson
Fletcher, was born in Virginia in 1782, and was
married to Katherine Wooding, who was born in
Hagerstown, Pennsylvania, in 1780. He moved with his
family to Greene county, Ohio, in 1816, and in 1852
came to Montgomery county, Indiana, where he died
September 26, 1858. His wife also died in that county
in 1878. Their children were Margaret, deceased, the
wife of John Pierce, of Sprinfield, Ohio; Mary,
deceased, wife of William Lewis; William, a farmer of
Montgomery county, Indiana; John and Sarah, deceased;
Robinson, our subject; and Naomi, wife of Elias
Little, of Montgomery county, Indiana.
Robinson Fletcher received his early training on his
father's farm, and attended school a portion of the
six weeks allowed yearly to the youth of that day in
which to receive an education. When he was nineteen he
left home and taught school in southern Illinois for a
few tersm. He then returned to Ohio and worked at the
carpenter trade and the sawmill business for a few
years. In 1852 he returned to the home farm in
Montgomery county, Indiana, and remained there until
the fall of 1865, when he came to Benton county,
Indiana, and rented a farm. Within the same year he
bought the two hundred and forty acres he now owns,
four miles south of Boswell, known as Fletcher mineral
spring farm. The mineral springs, with seven acres
adjoining, he sold in 1888. He is also interested in
other property, owning a half interest in the
opera-house and a business block in Boswell.
He was married August 11, 1844, in Greene county,
Ohio, to Katherine Little, daughter of David and Anna
(Blue) Little, of Ohio. Her father was a native of
Ohio and her mother of New Jersey, while she was born
in Muskingum county, Ohio, July 17, 1823. She became
the mother of nine children, two of whom died in
infancy. Emaline, deceased, was the wife of Robert
Picket; Sarilda, the second daughter, is the present
wife of Mr. Picket; Rufus is cultivating the home farm
in Warren county; Charles is in southwest Iowa; Amy is
the wife of Simon Brown, of Wasco county, Oregon; Nora
is the wife of I. Newton Lane, of Lewis county,
Washington; and Ura is the wife of William Swingle, of
Warren county, Indiana.
Mr. Fletcher is a member of the Masonic fraternity,
and is the present treasurer of his lodge. He is a
Republican in politics, but has never been an aspirant
for office, as his time has been occupied with the
management of his affairs.
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