Co-founder of Alpena, Alpena, Michigan
George Nichols Fletcher was the son of Nathan P. Fletcher and Lucretia Nichols.
George N. Fletcher married Sarah Ann Miller.
Known children:
Frank Ward Fletcher
Allen Miller Fletcher
Grace Fletcher
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GEORGE NICHOLS FLETCHER, lumberman, Detroit, Mich., born, Dec. 13, 1813, in Ludlow, Windsor county, Vt., is a son of Nathan P. Fletcher, lawyer. His grandfather, a native of Westford, Mass., was a soldier in the American Revolution. At the age of twelve, George was sub-Postmaster in Ludlow under his father, but in 1825 the family went to Hadley, Mass., and the lad attended school there and at Amherst for six years. In 1831, they all migrated to a farm twelve miles south of Cleveland, O., but in 1832 George took a clerkship in an iron store in Elyria. His earnings there enabled him to go to Oberlin college for five years.
In 1840, the young man went to Boston, Mass., for service as a wholesale grocery clerk, but a little later entered the service of John Wells and A. Gillmore, president of The Old Colony, The Boston & Albany, and The Concord Railroads, and connected with The Northern New Hampshire and The Passumpsic Railroads. Mr. Fletcher kept the books of three companies at the same time, and succeeded Josiah Quincy as treasurer of the Old Colony. In 1849, Mr. Fletcher built a saw mill at St. Clair, Mich., and was married in Boston in 1850. From 1853 to 1873, he spent much time, Summer and Winter, in the woods of Michigan, prospecting for and buying pine lands in the region of Thunder Bay. He has owned in Michigan 75,000 acres of timber, as much more in Wisconsin, in Florida and Georgia about 40,000 acres, and in Canada 40,000. In 1856, he bought the town site of Alpena, upon which now stands a city of 14,000 people, and where Mr. Fletcher and his sons, Frank W. [Fletcher] and Allan M. Fletcher, have since engaged extensively in the lumberland sulphite fiber business, as Geo. N. Fletcher & Sons. They built at Alpena the first sulphite fiber mill of the Mitteherlich patent in this country. From their township limits in Canada, much of the pine is now being brought to be cut into lumber at Alpena.
Mr. Fletcher is president of The International Sulphite Fiber & Paper Co. of Detroit, and of The Rumford Falls Power Co. of Maine, the Androscoggin river having a fall of 183 feet at the company's property, or 22 feet more than the height of Niagara. He is also the proprietor of feeding lands, and owns 100,000 acres in New Mexico and 50,000 in Texas, and in the latter State has fenced a herd of from 6,000 to 10,000 head on a tract thirteen miles square. He is also working gold mines in Arizona. He has been a life long Republican, and has two sons and one daughter, Grace [Fletcher]. He is a modest man, well educated, able and influential, but has never held public office.
America's Successful Men of Affairs: The United States at Large, Edited by Henry Hall, Vol II, The New York Tribune, 1896, p 312
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Individual marker for S.A.G. Fletcher shared with G.N. Fletcher. No visible dates for either on individual marker, but engraved on family marker.
Marker, which is slipping into the ground and is well worn with age, is found in the FLETCHER-MILLER family plot, with visible markers for:
Nathan P. Fletcher
Lucretia Nichols Fletcher
George Nichols Fletcher (G.N. FLETCHER)
Sarah A. Grant Miller Fletcher (S.A.G. FLETCHER)
Joseph Kingsbury Miller
Deborah Lord Miller
Martha Lord Miller
Samuel H. Eells
George Nichols Fletcher was the son of Nathan P. Fletcher and Lucretia Nichols.
George N. Fletcher married Sarah Ann Miller.
Known children:
Frank Ward Fletcher
Allen Miller Fletcher
Grace Fletcher
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GEORGE NICHOLS FLETCHER, lumberman, Detroit, Mich., born, Dec. 13, 1813, in Ludlow, Windsor county, Vt., is a son of Nathan P. Fletcher, lawyer. His grandfather, a native of Westford, Mass., was a soldier in the American Revolution. At the age of twelve, George was sub-Postmaster in Ludlow under his father, but in 1825 the family went to Hadley, Mass., and the lad attended school there and at Amherst for six years. In 1831, they all migrated to a farm twelve miles south of Cleveland, O., but in 1832 George took a clerkship in an iron store in Elyria. His earnings there enabled him to go to Oberlin college for five years.
In 1840, the young man went to Boston, Mass., for service as a wholesale grocery clerk, but a little later entered the service of John Wells and A. Gillmore, president of The Old Colony, The Boston & Albany, and The Concord Railroads, and connected with The Northern New Hampshire and The Passumpsic Railroads. Mr. Fletcher kept the books of three companies at the same time, and succeeded Josiah Quincy as treasurer of the Old Colony. In 1849, Mr. Fletcher built a saw mill at St. Clair, Mich., and was married in Boston in 1850. From 1853 to 1873, he spent much time, Summer and Winter, in the woods of Michigan, prospecting for and buying pine lands in the region of Thunder Bay. He has owned in Michigan 75,000 acres of timber, as much more in Wisconsin, in Florida and Georgia about 40,000 acres, and in Canada 40,000. In 1856, he bought the town site of Alpena, upon which now stands a city of 14,000 people, and where Mr. Fletcher and his sons, Frank W. [Fletcher] and Allan M. Fletcher, have since engaged extensively in the lumberland sulphite fiber business, as Geo. N. Fletcher & Sons. They built at Alpena the first sulphite fiber mill of the Mitteherlich patent in this country. From their township limits in Canada, much of the pine is now being brought to be cut into lumber at Alpena.
Mr. Fletcher is president of The International Sulphite Fiber & Paper Co. of Detroit, and of The Rumford Falls Power Co. of Maine, the Androscoggin river having a fall of 183 feet at the company's property, or 22 feet more than the height of Niagara. He is also the proprietor of feeding lands, and owns 100,000 acres in New Mexico and 50,000 in Texas, and in the latter State has fenced a herd of from 6,000 to 10,000 head on a tract thirteen miles square. He is also working gold mines in Arizona. He has been a life long Republican, and has two sons and one daughter, Grace [Fletcher]. He is a modest man, well educated, able and influential, but has never held public office.
America's Successful Men of Affairs: The United States at Large, Edited by Henry Hall, Vol II, The New York Tribune, 1896, p 312
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Individual marker for S.A.G. Fletcher shared with G.N. Fletcher. No visible dates for either on individual marker, but engraved on family marker.
Marker, which is slipping into the ground and is well worn with age, is found in the FLETCHER-MILLER family plot, with visible markers for:
Nathan P. Fletcher
Lucretia Nichols Fletcher
George Nichols Fletcher (G.N. FLETCHER)
Sarah A. Grant Miller Fletcher (S.A.G. FLETCHER)
Joseph Kingsbury Miller
Deborah Lord Miller
Martha Lord Miller
Samuel H. Eells
Co-founder of Alpena, Alpena, Michigan
George Nichols Fletcher was the son of Nathan P. Fletcher and Lucretia Nichols.
George N. Fletcher married Sarah Ann Miller.
Known children:
Frank Ward Fletcher
Allen Miller Fletcher
Grace Fletcher
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GEORGE NICHOLS FLETCHER, lumberman, Detroit, Mich., born, Dec. 13, 1813, in Ludlow, Windsor county, Vt., is a son of Nathan P. Fletcher, lawyer. His grandfather, a native of Westford, Mass., was a soldier in the American Revolution. At the age of twelve, George was sub-Postmaster in Ludlow under his father, but in 1825 the family went to Hadley, Mass., and the lad attended school there and at Amherst for six years. In 1831, they all migrated to a farm twelve miles south of Cleveland, O., but in 1832 George took a clerkship in an iron store in Elyria. His earnings there enabled him to go to Oberlin college for five years.
In 1840, the young man went to Boston, Mass., for service as a wholesale grocery clerk, but a little later entered the service of John Wells and A. Gillmore, president of The Old Colony, The Boston & Albany, and The Concord Railroads, and connected with The Northern New Hampshire and The Passumpsic Railroads. Mr. Fletcher kept the books of three companies at the same time, and succeeded Josiah Quincy as treasurer of the Old Colony. In 1849, Mr. Fletcher built a saw mill at St. Clair, Mich., and was married in Boston in 1850. From 1853 to 1873, he spent much time, Summer and Winter, in the woods of Michigan, prospecting for and buying pine lands in the region of Thunder Bay. He has owned in Michigan 75,000 acres of timber, as much more in Wisconsin, in Florida and Georgia about 40,000 acres, and in Canada 40,000. In 1856, he bought the town site of Alpena, upon which now stands a city of 14,000 people, and where Mr. Fletcher and his sons, Frank W. [Fletcher] and Allan M. Fletcher, have since engaged extensively in the lumberland sulphite fiber business, as Geo. N. Fletcher & Sons. They built at Alpena the first sulphite fiber mill of the Mitteherlich patent in this country. From their township limits in Canada, much of the pine is now being brought to be cut into lumber at Alpena.
Mr. Fletcher is president of The International Sulphite Fiber & Paper Co. of Detroit, and of The Rumford Falls Power Co. of Maine, the Androscoggin river having a fall of 183 feet at the company's property, or 22 feet more than the height of Niagara. He is also the proprietor of feeding lands, and owns 100,000 acres in New Mexico and 50,000 in Texas, and in the latter State has fenced a herd of from 6,000 to 10,000 head on a tract thirteen miles square. He is also working gold mines in Arizona. He has been a life long Republican, and has two sons and one daughter, Grace [Fletcher]. He is a modest man, well educated, able and influential, but has never held public office.
America's Successful Men of Affairs: The United States at Large, Edited by Henry Hall, Vol II, The New York Tribune, 1896, p 312
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Individual marker for S.A.G. Fletcher shared with G.N. Fletcher. No visible dates for either on individual marker, but engraved on family marker.
Marker, which is slipping into the ground and is well worn with age, is found in the FLETCHER-MILLER family plot, with visible markers for:
Nathan P. Fletcher
Lucretia Nichols Fletcher
George Nichols Fletcher (G.N. FLETCHER)
Sarah A. Grant Miller Fletcher (S.A.G. FLETCHER)
Joseph Kingsbury Miller
Deborah Lord Miller
Martha Lord Miller
Samuel H. Eells
George Nichols Fletcher was the son of Nathan P. Fletcher and Lucretia Nichols.
George N. Fletcher married Sarah Ann Miller.
Known children:
Frank Ward Fletcher
Allen Miller Fletcher
Grace Fletcher
*************
GEORGE NICHOLS FLETCHER, lumberman, Detroit, Mich., born, Dec. 13, 1813, in Ludlow, Windsor county, Vt., is a son of Nathan P. Fletcher, lawyer. His grandfather, a native of Westford, Mass., was a soldier in the American Revolution. At the age of twelve, George was sub-Postmaster in Ludlow under his father, but in 1825 the family went to Hadley, Mass., and the lad attended school there and at Amherst for six years. In 1831, they all migrated to a farm twelve miles south of Cleveland, O., but in 1832 George took a clerkship in an iron store in Elyria. His earnings there enabled him to go to Oberlin college for five years.
In 1840, the young man went to Boston, Mass., for service as a wholesale grocery clerk, but a little later entered the service of John Wells and A. Gillmore, president of The Old Colony, The Boston & Albany, and The Concord Railroads, and connected with The Northern New Hampshire and The Passumpsic Railroads. Mr. Fletcher kept the books of three companies at the same time, and succeeded Josiah Quincy as treasurer of the Old Colony. In 1849, Mr. Fletcher built a saw mill at St. Clair, Mich., and was married in Boston in 1850. From 1853 to 1873, he spent much time, Summer and Winter, in the woods of Michigan, prospecting for and buying pine lands in the region of Thunder Bay. He has owned in Michigan 75,000 acres of timber, as much more in Wisconsin, in Florida and Georgia about 40,000 acres, and in Canada 40,000. In 1856, he bought the town site of Alpena, upon which now stands a city of 14,000 people, and where Mr. Fletcher and his sons, Frank W. [Fletcher] and Allan M. Fletcher, have since engaged extensively in the lumberland sulphite fiber business, as Geo. N. Fletcher & Sons. They built at Alpena the first sulphite fiber mill of the Mitteherlich patent in this country. From their township limits in Canada, much of the pine is now being brought to be cut into lumber at Alpena.
Mr. Fletcher is president of The International Sulphite Fiber & Paper Co. of Detroit, and of The Rumford Falls Power Co. of Maine, the Androscoggin river having a fall of 183 feet at the company's property, or 22 feet more than the height of Niagara. He is also the proprietor of feeding lands, and owns 100,000 acres in New Mexico and 50,000 in Texas, and in the latter State has fenced a herd of from 6,000 to 10,000 head on a tract thirteen miles square. He is also working gold mines in Arizona. He has been a life long Republican, and has two sons and one daughter, Grace [Fletcher]. He is a modest man, well educated, able and influential, but has never held public office.
America's Successful Men of Affairs: The United States at Large, Edited by Henry Hall, Vol II, The New York Tribune, 1896, p 312
*****
Individual marker for S.A.G. Fletcher shared with G.N. Fletcher. No visible dates for either on individual marker, but engraved on family marker.
Marker, which is slipping into the ground and is well worn with age, is found in the FLETCHER-MILLER family plot, with visible markers for:
Nathan P. Fletcher
Lucretia Nichols Fletcher
George Nichols Fletcher (G.N. FLETCHER)
Sarah A. Grant Miller Fletcher (S.A.G. FLETCHER)
Joseph Kingsbury Miller
Deborah Lord Miller
Martha Lord Miller
Samuel H. Eells
Inscription
This face of the FLETCHER/MILLER family marker reads:
GEORGE NICHOLS FLETCHER
Dec. 13, 1813 - Nov. 6, 1899.
SARAH A.G. FLETCHER
March 25, 1831 - July 31, 1889.
Family Members
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