- 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.
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- Taken from "Combination Atlas Map of Rock County,
Wisconsin. Compiled, Drawn and Published From Personal Examinations
and Surveys by Everts, Baskin and Stewart." Chicago, Ill.
(c)1873, p. 105.
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- Courtesy of Lori
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