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Fletcher, George Henry – Flickinger, Samuel Jacob

Fletcher, George Henry

lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 18, 1860, in Mankato, Minn. In 1881 he graduated from the university of Michigan with the degree of B. A.; and in 1883 was admitted to the practice of law in Minneapolis, Minn. During 1887-91 he was president of the Union League of Minneapolis; and in 1893 served with distinction as a member of the Minnesota house of representatives, and was chairman of the judiciary committee.

Fletcher, George Nichols

lumberman, was born Dec. 13, 1813, in Ludlow, Vt. He is president of the International Sulphite Fiber and Paper company of Detroit, and of the Rumford Falls Power company of Maine. He is also working gold mines in Arizona.

Fletcher, Horace

clergyman, was born Oct. 28, 1796, in Cavendish, Vt. He was one of the most useful and respected ministers in his native state. He was chosen state senator in 1855. He died November 27, 1871.

Fletcher, Isaac

congressman. He was formerly a member of the Vermont legislature; was a member of congress from that state from 1837 to 1841. He died Oct. 19, 1842, in Lyndon, Vt.

Fletcher, James Cooley

clergyman, author, was born in 1823 in Indianapolis, Ind. He is a presbyterian clergyman, missionary to Brazil in 1851-54, and author with D. P. Kidder of the once very popular work, Brazil and the Brazilians, which first appeared in 1857, and reached an eighth edition in 1868.

Fletcher, Loren

manufacturer, merchant, state senator, congressman, was born April 10, 1833, in Mount Vernon, Maine. He was elected to the state legislature in 1872 and re-elected seven times; the last three terms served as speaker, having been unanimously elected the last term. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress.

Fletcher, Miles J

was born in 1828, in Indianapolis, Ind. In 1860 he was elected superintendent of public instruction for the state of Indiana.

Fletcher, Richard

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1788, in Cavendish, Vt. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature; a representative in congress from 1837 to 1839, and judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts from 1848 to 1853. He died June 21, 1869, in Boston, Mass.

Fletcher, Robert

anthropologist, author, was born in 1823, in England. He is an eminent anthropologist of Washington and the author of Paul Broca and the French School of Anthropology; Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets; Human Proportion in Art and Anthropometry; Some Recent Experiments in Serpent Venom; The New School of Criminal Anthropology; and Tattooing Among Civilized People.

Fletcher, Ryland

state senator, governor, was born Feb. 18, 1799, in Cavendish, Vt. He was governor of Vermont from 1856 to 1858; served in each branch of the legislature of Vermont; and was a presidential elector in 1864. He died Dec. 19, 1885, in Proctorsville, Vt.

Fletcher, Thomas

soldier, congressman. He was a member of the Kentucky legislature from Montgomery county in 1803, 1805, and 1806; and was a general in the war of 1812. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky in 1816 and 1817; and again a member of the legislature in 1817, 1820, 1821, and 1825.

Flickinger, Samuel Jacob

journalist, was born Feb. 14, 1848, near Millville, Ohio. For two years he was telegraph editor of the Dayton Journal; and in 1878 became a reporter on the Ohio State Journal of Columbus. In 1884 he assumed charge of that publication as managing editor, and his life work is shown in that journal. He is considered an authority on Ohio politics, and renders good service to the republican committees.