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John A. FLETCHER - The subject of this sketch was born
in Alstead, Essex County, New Hampshire, April 2, 1805. He was
married to Miss Emily Kent in 1828, and after her death, to Miss
Eliza H. Newkirk. A family has been given him of five children,
all of them yet living. He removed from his native State to St.
Lawrence County, New York, and from thence to Laporte, Indiana.
In the spring of 1837 he emigrated to Rock County, Wisconsin,
where he located two hundred and forty acres of government land,
a part of which is still retained as the old homestead, owned
now by G. F. Fletcher, his son. It is under a fair state of cultivation,
with good house, barn, outbuildings, etc. He also entered four
hundred and eighty acres of wild land in Bradford Township. Mr.
Fletcher was at an early day chairman of the board of supervisors,
and filled the office of assessor a number of terms. He was the
first postmaster of Johnstown, and kept the first public house
in this section of country. He was one of a party of four engaged
in laying out the territorial road through this township, all
of whose names were "John" in consideration of which
they decided to name the township "Johnstown." He was
one of the first and leading members of the Congregational Church.
His residence is now at Clear Lake, Iowa. |