DEATH OF DR. FLETCHER RANSOM.
Another of our long time residents and much esteemed citizens has departed this life. Dr. Ransom, one of the most familiar names in our county—died at his residence in this village at half past five o'clock on Monday morning, after an illness of several months duration, and under which he has been confined to his bed for about three months—rending with an attack of paralysis.
Dr. Ransom came to Michigan and settled in Kalamazoo in 1835, and commenced the practice of medicine which he continued successfully for a number of years. From an early day he has borne a prominent part in the affairs and progress of Kalamazoo county, and been identified with its history. Beside s having been twice elected to our Legislature, he has held various offices in the county and township. Of late years he has devoted himself almost exclusively to the care of his farm, until prostrated by disease. Had he lived until August he would have been 67 years old.
Dr. Ransom was a man universally respected, and regarded by all who knew him as a good man, a valued counsellor, a generous neighbor and friend. His loss will be deeply felt beyond the circle of his immediate friends and relatives.— He leaves a wife, and two sons.
The funeral will take place this [Wednesday] morning at 10 o'clock, from the late residence of the deceased. Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph June 5, 1867 page 4

Dr. Farnsworth Fletcher Ransom, second son and fifth child of Major Ezekiel and Lucinda Fletcher Ransom, was born at Townshend, Vt., Aug. 22, 1800. He was called, and usually signed himself, Fletcher in all business transactions. The name Farnsworth was after an early friend of his father, living at Shelburne Falls, Mass. He was brought up the farm with his brothers and sisters, attending the public schools and academies of Windham County until he became of age, when he determined to be a doctor, and for a time he took up the study of medicine with his uncle, Dr. Luther Ransom, at Halifax, Vt., then a practitioner at that place. Subsequently, however, he went to Middlebury, Vt., where he took a partial course at Middlebury College, at the same time continuing his professional studies in the office of Dr. Jonathan Allen, a distinguished physician of that place. From Middlebury he went to the medical college at Castleton, Vt., from which he graduated in 1830, and located in Putney, Windham Co., in the medical practice, and was there married to his first wife, Elizabeth Noyes, June 28, 1831. He continued his practice at Putney until 1835, when he moved to Glenns Falls, Warren Co., N. Y. He remained there for about two years and then emigrated to Kalamazoo, Mich., where the most of his father's family had already located. He decided to remain with them and to resume the practice of his profession. But it had never proved to his liking, and though not unsuccessful he determined to abandon it, and did. Shortly after he was elected Justice of the Peace, in which office he served acceptably, and was also chosen as representative in the legislature from Kalamazoo County, sessions of 1845 and 1846, where he was recognized as among the most useful members of the Lower House. Declining further office from his party he moved to the township of Alamo, Kalamazoo Co., to make it his home.
He had previously purchased from the government a large tract of land and was able to go into the business of stock raising on an extensive scale. Such occupation was to his liking, and he continued in it until advancing years decided him to turn over the active management of the estate to his sons Charles and John, who had been with him constantly from their mother's death, which occurred Oct. 16, 1840. He then resumed his residence in Kalamazoo and was there married to Miss Lucia Lovell for a second wife. After his return to Kalamazoo he was badly crippled by a fall from a wagon, which disabled him from further participation in the active concerns of life. He died at Kalamazoo, Mich., June 3, 1867. Dr. Ransom was a man of far more than ordinary ability naturally, and had scholastic attainments of a high order. All through his earlier manhood he was an uncompromising Whig, but declined to follow that party into the Republican ranks, and joining the Democrat contingent, in full communion with his aforetime political enemies, died. Historical outline of the Ransom family of America