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DR. FLETCHER T. RILEY was born in Green County, Ind., November 6, 1854. His father, Bronson Riley, a son of Harry Riley, from Virginia, was born in Boone County, Ky., in 1824, was a farmer in Indiana and Kentucky during his lifetime, and died in 1885. He married Ruth A. Jackson, daughter of Levi T. Jackson, of Pennsylvania, who bore him nine children, the subject of this sketch being the fifth child. Dr. Fletcher T. Riley was educated in Boone County, taught school for two years, and in 1872 began the study of medicine with Dr. J. C. Hall, in Owen County, Ky. In 1874 he entered the Ohio Medical College, where he graduated in 1877, and then located in Boone County, but moved to Illinois, where he lived two years. He was appointed assistant physician in the Central Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, where he was engaged three years; he practiced a short time in Louisville, and also in Owenton, Owen County; from there he went to Belleview, where he now resides. In 1882 he married Miss Mary B. Gale, daughter of Dr. R. H. Gale, of Owen County, who was superintendent of the Central Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, at Anchorage; was probate judge at one time, and also a representative in the Legislature from Owen County. Dr. Gale was a practicing physician for thirty-five years, and has made surgery a specialty; he was railroad surgeon for the Short Line Railroad many years; he married Miss Mary C. Green, of Owen County. Dr. Riley is a physician in good standing, and with his wife is a member of the Baptist Church. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity.