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Fletcher, Josiah Moody

manufacturer, poet, was born Jan. 14, 1828, in Halifax, Mass. In 1843 he engaged in the bookselling and publishing business in Nashua, N. H.; and since 1854 has been engaged in the manufacture of furniture.

He is president of the Fletcher and Webster Furniture company, and proprietor of the Nashua Novelty works. He is the editor of several gift books, and in 1890 published a volume of poems entitled A Thousand Songs of Life, Love, Home and Heaven.

JULIA FLETCHER, CONSTANCE (GEORGE FLEMING), author, was born in 1859. She is a novelist whose home is in Rome, and is the author of Kismet; The Head of Medusa; Mirage; Vestigia; Andromeda; The Truth About Clement Ker; and For Plain Women Only.

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