William L. Fletcher
Biography
Biography
WILLIAM L. FLETCHER, who for one year held the office of service director in connection with the municipal government of Lorain, the important lake port city and metropolis of Lorain County, was born at Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, May 13, 1869, a son of William D. and Rachel C. (Lockwood) Fletcher, the former of whom was born in Erie County, Ohio and the latter in Wexford County, Michigan. The Fletcher family is of English lineage and has been established in the United states for many generations. William D. Fletcher was only forty years of age at the time of his death, and had been a substantial agriculturist and stock-grower near Norwalk, Huron County. His widow remained on the old home farm, of eighty acres for a number of years after his death, and she too is now deceased. Of the two children the subject of this sketch is the elder, the younger son, Anson, having died in childhood.
After his high-school course in Norwalk William L. Fletcher took a commercial course in Oberlin College. As a youth he became a skilled telegraph operator, and as such was employed four years by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company. He then rejoined his mother on the old home farm, to the management of which he continued to give his attention until his marriage, in 1889. He then purchased a farm near Norwalk, and after continuing successfully the enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower during the interval of six years he accepted a position as conductor on the line of the Lake Shore Electric Railroad, for which he later became the general agent at Norwalk. In 1915 he removed to Lorain and found employment as a machinist in the electrical department of the shipyards, with which he continued his connection until 1920, when he became a salesman for Lorain City Mills. In this capacity he continued his effective service until his appointment to municipal office, the of service Director.
Mr. Fletcher is independent in politics, and in a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum.
On the 9th of March, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Fletcher and Miss Anna C. Dipple, who was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fenner) Dipple. Mr. Dipple was born in Germany, came to the United States when young and eventually became an extensive farmer and fruit-grower in Huron County, Ohio, where also he conducted a dairy enterprise and was a successful raiser of live stock. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher have one son and one daughter: Rachel is the wife of R. H. Slater, of Lorain, and they have one daughter, Joan; Homer, who likewise resides at Lorain, married Miss Frances Geiger, and they have one child, Rosamond.
Source: History of Ohio, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925, Vol. III, page 96
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After his high-school course in Norwalk William L. Fletcher took a commercial course in Oberlin College. As a youth he became a skilled telegraph operator, and as such was employed four years by the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company. He then rejoined his mother on the old home farm, to the management of which he continued to give his attention until his marriage, in 1889. He then purchased a farm near Norwalk, and after continuing successfully the enterprise as an agriculturist and stock-grower during the interval of six years he accepted a position as conductor on the line of the Lake Shore Electric Railroad, for which he later became the general agent at Norwalk. In 1915 he removed to Lorain and found employment as a machinist in the electrical department of the shipyards, with which he continued his connection until 1920, when he became a salesman for Lorain City Mills. In this capacity he continued his effective service until his appointment to municipal office, the of service Director.
Mr. Fletcher is independent in politics, and in a fraternal way he is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum.
On the 9th of March, 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Fletcher and Miss Anna C. Dipple, who was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fenner) Dipple. Mr. Dipple was born in Germany, came to the United States when young and eventually became an extensive farmer and fruit-grower in Huron County, Ohio, where also he conducted a dairy enterprise and was a successful raiser of live stock. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher have one son and one daughter: Rachel is the wife of R. H. Slater, of Lorain, and they have one daughter, Joan; Homer, who likewise resides at Lorain, married Miss Frances Geiger, and they have one child, Rosamond.
Source: History of Ohio, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925, Vol. III, page 96
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