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Calvin Fletcher Jr.

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Calvin Fletcher Jr.

Birth
Death
27 Jan 1903 (aged 76)
Burial
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec: 6, Lot: 3
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Calvin Fletcher, Jr. (1826–1903): son, of Calvin, Sr. and Sarah Hill Fletcher. Educated at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, he married Emily Beeler (1849). Two sons and three daughters were born to the couple. He worked his father's farm for several years, even after his marriage to Emily, but following the death of their son Calvin Beeler
("Toddy") who died in 1857, they moved into the city of Indianapolis. In 1858 he and two other men established Western Commercial Nurseries. In 1868 he purchased land in Owen County where he built Ludlow Hall. Today the area would equal 6 city blocks. At the turn of the 20th century he sold the estate to E. Chubb Fuller, publisher of the Agriculturalist Epitomist. Fuller moved the Epitomist to Ludlow Hall. Thinking they would move to southern California, the family bought 4000 acres in 1872 there, but later decided they preferred Europe, where they spent considerable time. Living beyond their means led to insolvency in the late 1890s.
Calvin Fletcher, Jr. (1826–1903): son, of Calvin, Sr. and Sarah Hill Fletcher. Educated at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, he married Emily Beeler (1849). Two sons and three daughters were born to the couple. He worked his father's farm for several years, even after his marriage to Emily, but following the death of their son Calvin Beeler
("Toddy") who died in 1857, they moved into the city of Indianapolis. In 1858 he and two other men established Western Commercial Nurseries. In 1868 he purchased land in Owen County where he built Ludlow Hall. Today the area would equal 6 city blocks. At the turn of the 20th century he sold the estate to E. Chubb Fuller, publisher of the Agriculturalist Epitomist. Fuller moved the Epitomist to Ludlow Hall. Thinking they would move to southern California, the family bought 4000 acres in 1872 there, but later decided they preferred Europe, where they spent considerable time. Living beyond their means led to insolvency in the late 1890s.

Gravesite Details

burial: MAY 11,1903



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