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street, in whose employ lie remained for about
three years, after which for two years more he
followed his trade in different shoe factories.
In 1872 Mr. Fletcher started in business on
his own account in Boston, making shoe uppers
for the custom trade, in which he was building
up a successful business wlieu the fire of 1872
swept his business away with many others, and
lie was left penniless. He then went to North
Adams, Mass., and liecame superintendent of
the factory of Millard Brothers, shoe manufacturers,
where he continued for about three
years. In 187(3 he returned to Brockton, where
he took contract work in the bottoming departments
of various shoe factories, principally with
Ijucius Leach, and he continued in this kind
of work until 188!», when he entered the real
estate brokerage business, in which lie was en-
gaged until 1893. He then accepted a position
with his brother, Eustis Jerome Fletcher, who
was engaged in shoe manufacturing, and with
and Mehitable N. (Howland) Howland, and
widow of George F. Willis. To this marriage
were born the following children : Frank Arthur,
l)orn Feb. 1, 1871, a shoe operative, wlio married
Mrs. Florence E. Goodwin, and they reside on
in Matfield cemetery. By her marriage with
Mr. Willis she had three children, of whom
the only survivor is George H. Willis, now of
Hudson, Mass. Her ancestry on both sides
goes back to the coming of the "Fortune" in
1623.
(IX) Eljier Herbert Fletcher, son of
John A. and Mehitable (Howland) Fletcher,
was born in Boston Sept. 9, 1873. His early
education was obtained in the schools of Brockton,
and he was graduated from the high school
in 1892. His natural inclinations, fostered by
an ambitious and devoted mother, turned him
toward the legal profession as his life work,
and he entered the office of the late Judge Fred
M. Bixby as a student, later attending the
law school of Boston University, from wliich
he was graduated with honor in 1896, and he
was admitted to practice before the State
C'ourts at the Suffolk county bar at the end of
his second year at Boston University Law
School ; he has since been admitted to practice
before the United States District and Circuit
courts. He formed a partnership with Judge
Loyed E. Chamberlain, of Brockton, under tlie
name of Chamberlain & Fletcher, and they have
built up an extensive practice all through
southeastern Massachusetts. Mr. Fletcher is
a man of pleasing personality, and is honest
and straightforward in his dealings. He has
given strict attention to his profession, and
has won as high a place in the estimation of
his fellow practitioners at the bar as he holds
whom he was employed at operating a McKay
sewing machine, stitching bottoms on shoes.
JHe continued thus employed for about seven
years, and then retired from active business,
now enjoying a well-earned rest from labor,
surrounded by his family, to whom he is much
devoted.
In August, 1855, Mr. Fletcher was united in
marriage with Louise J. in the opinion of the people of his community,
who know his temperate and upright private
life. He has ever been found on the side of
HayBes, who was bom
at Randolph, Mass., and who died in Boston
in 1865, the day President Lincoln was assassinated,
and she is buried in East Stoughton,
Mass. To this union were born children as
follows : A daughter who died in ; infancy Fred
Lincoln, now deceased Charles ; Walter, who
died at tlie age of twenty-six years; Jennie
Mabel, who died aged four years and a ; daughter
that died in infancy. On Jan. 7, 1869, Mr.
Fletcher married (second) in North Bridgewater
Mehitable Howland, daughter of Perez
good government in public affairs, and is
deeply interested in the "no-license" question
in Brockton. He is a member of the No-
License League, and for fourteen years has
been chainnan of its executive committee. In
politics he is a stanch Republican, and has
served as a member of the city committee. He
is a member of the Plymouth County Bar Association
and the Brockton Bar Association.
Fraternally he belongs to the K. of P. He
attends the I'orter Congregational Church, of
Brockton.
On Dec. 9, 1904, in Brockton, Mr. Fletcher
married Florence A. H. Miller, who was born
in C'amden, Maine, in 1875, daughter of Lieut.
Alden and Caroline M. (Gushing) Miller. To
this union was born a son, Robert Miller, Jan.
25, 1908. Mrs. Fletcher passed away the day
the son was born, and was buried at Camden,
Byron avenue, Brockton ; and Elmer Herbert,
mentioned below. Mrs., Fletcher died June 22,
1909, aged seventy-nine years, and was buried
Maine. She was a cultured, educated woman,
charming in manner and brilliant in conversation;
and, deeply interested in her husband's
work, was his counselor and companion at all
times. She was an attendant of the Porter Congregational
Church.
(VIII) EusTis Jerome Fletcher, retired
shoe manufacturer of Brockton, is the youngest
son of the late John Caswell and Elizabeth
(Taylor) Fletcher, and was born in Littleton,
N. H., Nov. 24, 1837, and while he was vet an