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 HBREINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. of the Jacksonville bar association; in 1906 became president of the Citizen's bank of Jacksonville; and in 1900-06 was chairman of the board of public instruction for Duval county, Fla. In 1904-08 he was chairman of the Florida democratic state committee. In 1909 he was elected to the United States senate from Florida for the term ending in 1915. Fletcher, Horace, clergyman, theologian, was bom Oct. 28, 1796, in Cavendish, Vt. He was chosen a member of the Vermont «tate senate in 1855. He died Nov. 27, 1871, in

Vermont. Horace,

Fletcher,

lecturer,

author,

was

born Aug. 10, 1849, in Lawrence, Mass. He has traveled in all parts of the world for thirty-five years; and was engaged in numerous occupations. Since 1895 he has devoted his attention to sociology. He is the author of Menti- culture; Happiness; That Last Waif; Nature's Food Filter; The Mind Power-Plant; and Industrial Symphony. Fletcher, Isaac, state legislator, congress-

man, was born in Vermont. He was a member of the Vermont legislature; and in 183741 he was a representative from Vermont to the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth congresses. He died Oct. 19, 1843, in Lyndon, Vt. Fletcher,

James B., lawyer, governor, was born Oct. 18, 1856, in Pikeville, Tenn. He graduated in law from the university of Tennessee; and practiced his profession in Chattanooga, Tenn. In 1903-05 he was the governor of the state of Tennessee. Fletcher, James Cooley, clergyman, author, was born in 1823 in Indianapolis, Ind. He was a presbyterian missionary to Brazil in 1851-54. He is the author, with D. P. Kidder, of Brazil and the Brazilians. Fletcher, Josiah Moody, manufacturer, poet, was born Jan. 14, 1828, in Halifax, Mass. He was president of the Fletcher and Webster furniture company; and proHe prietor of the Nashua novelty works. is the author of A Thousand Songs of Life, Love, Home and Heaven. Fletcher, Julia Constance, dramatist, auShe is the author thor, was bom in 1859. of Kismet; The Head of Medusa; Mirage;

Vestigia;

Andromeda;

Clement Ker; For Plain tle Stories

The

Truth About

Women

Only; Lit-

About Women; and other works.

Fletcher, Loren, manufacturer, merchant, state senator, congressman, was bom April 10, 1833, in Mount Vemon, Maine. He was elected to the Minnesota state legislature in 1872, and re-elected seven times; and the last three terms served as speaker. In 1893-

1903 and 1905-07 he was a representative from Minnesota to the fifty-third, fiftyfourth, fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh and fifty-ninth congresses. Fletcher, Montgomery, naval oflBcer, was bom Feb. 15, 1830, in Virginia. In 1850 he was appointed third assistant engineer

of the United States navy; and in 1892

was

469

retired with the

rank of commodore. In 1906 he was advanced to the rank of rearadmiral. He died in 1908 in Washington, D.C. Fletcher, Richard, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1788, in Cavendish, Vt. He was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature; and in 1837-39 he was a representative to the twenty-fifth congress;

and

justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts in 1848-53. He died June 21, 1869, in Boston, Mass. Fletcher, Robert, anthropologist, author, was born March 6, 1823, in England. He was an eminent anthropologist of Washington, D.C; and since 1897 lecturer on medical jurisprudence in the Johns Hopkins university of Baltimore, Md. He is the author of Paul Brooa and the French School of Anthropology; Prehistoric Trephining and Cra-

Amulets; Human Proportion in Art and Anthropometry; Some Recent Experiments in Serpent Venom; The New School of Criminal Anthropology; and Tattooing

nial

Among

Civilized People.

Howe, soldier, author, 21, 1850, iu Cincinnati, Ohio.

Fletcher, Robert

was bom July

He

served on the Indian frontier and in California until 1886, when he was retired for disabilities contracted in line of duty. He was made first lieutenant and brevet captain for services in the Nez Perces Indian war. Since 1899 he has been director of Mark Hopkins institute of art at San Blind Francisco, Cal. He is the author of

A

Bargain; The Johnstown Stage; and Marjorie and Her Papa. Fletcher, Ryland, state senator, governor,

was born Feb. 18, 1799, in Cavendish, Vt. He was the twenty-first governor of Vermont in 1856-58; served in each branch of the legislature of Vermont; and was a presidential elector in 1864. 1885, in Proctorsville, Vt.

He

died Dec. 19,

Fletcher, Stevenson Whitcombe, educator, was bom Sept. 10, 1875, in LittleSince 1905 he has been profeston, Mass. sor of horticulture at the Michigan agriovdtural college. He is the author of How To

author,

a Fruit Garden and Soils. Thomas, lawyer, was bom April Randolph county. Ark. In 18628, 64 he was a member of the state legislature; and in 1866-68 was sheriff. In 1868-84 he practiced law; and in 1885 was appointed United States marshal for the eastern disHe died Feb. 21, 1900, trict of Arkansas. in Little Rock, Ark. Fletcher, Thomas, soldier,. congressman. He was a member of the Kentucky state

Make

Fletcher, 1819, in

legislature from Montgomery county in 1803, 1805, and 1806; and was a general in the war of 1812. In 1815-17 he was a representative from Kentucky to the fourteenth congress; and again a member of the legislature in 1817, 1830, 1821 and 1835. He died in

Montgomery county, Ky.