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DR C. G. FLETCHER, homeopathic physician and surgeon, was born at Martinsville, Morgan county, Ind., July 22, 1854. His father, Rev. Isaac G. Fletcher, was a native of Massachusetts, born in 1790, and died Oct. 24, 1862, in Morgan county, Ind. His mother, Harriet B. (Otis) Fletcher, was born in Vermont Dec. 4, 1811; she is a descendant of James Otis of Revolutionary fame. When about fourteen years of age he moved with his mother and family to Kansas, locating in Erie, where a brother was engaged in mercantile business, with our subject as clerk and assistant postmaster. In the fall of 1873 he entered the Lane University, Lecompton, Kan., and after attending there a year and a half he went to Leavenworth and entered the Kansas State Normal. After quitting school he engaged in teaching for a time in southern Kansas, and in 1877-78 took charge of an Indian school near McAlister, I. T., in the Choctaw nation. He then entered the Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, and attended the lectures and had charge of the dispensary during vacation. He graduated from that Institution in March, 1881, and came at once to southwest Missouri, locating at Joplin. He has since remained here and has by strict attention to professional duties gained a large, increasing, and remunerative practice.