STOUGHTON A. FLETCHER. The history of Indiana and Indianapolis in particular contains no more distinguished name than that of Fletcher. The name Stoughton appears representing three successive generations. This branch of the family has been especially active and prominent in the banking life of the state, and the present Stoughton A. Fletcher, who for sake of distinction is often referred to as Stoughton A. Fletcher II, is president of the Fletcher American National Bank of Indianapolis, and though a man still under forty occupies the front rank among Indiana's financiers.

The American ancestry of the Fletcher family goes back to Robert Fletcher, who was born in northern England and settled at Concord, Massachusetts, in 1630. He He died there April 3, 1677, at the age of eighty-five. Through his four sons, Francis, Luke, William and Samuel, are descended most of the Fletchers who claim New England ancestry.

In a later generation was Timothy Fletcher, who lived in Westford, Massachusetts. His son, Jesse Fletcher, was born in that town November 9, 1763. Timothy Fletcher was the father of several children who became noted. One was Rev. Elijah Fletcher who was pastor of a church in New Hampshire from 1773 until his death in 1786, and whose second daughter, Grace, was the first wife of Daniel Web

ster.

Jesse Fletcher had his early studies directed by his brother Elijah, but left his books to join the Revolutionary army and served in two campaigns toward the close of the war. In 1781, when about eighteen, he married Lucy Keyes, who was born November 13, 1765. About 1783 they moved to Ludlow, Vermont, where they were among the first settlers. From that time until the day of his death in February, 1831, Jesse Fletcher lived on the same farm. He was the first town clerk of Ludlow, was a justice of the peace, and the second representative to the General Courts from Ludlow. In that town all his fifteen children, except the oldest, were born. His widow died in 1846. Among the children of Jesse and Lucy Fletcher were at least two who became conspicuous in Indiana affairs. One of these was the noted Calvin Fletcher, who came to Indianapolis at the time it was made the

capital of the state and for forty years was one of the most eminent lawyers and financiers of Indiana, until his death May 26, 1866. A son of Calvin Fletcher was the late Stoughton A. Fletcher, who was known as known as "Junior" to distinguish him from his uncle Stoughton A. Fletcher, Sr.

Another child of Jesse Fletcher, and the youngest of the family, was Stoughton A. Fletcher, Sr. He became one of the first bankers of Indianapolis, taking up his home in the capital city in 1831, and in 1839 established the private bank from which has since grown the Fletcher American National Bank.

Stoughton A. Fletcher, Sr. was born at Ludlow, Vermont, August 22, 1808. From his parents he received not only much early instruction but also those lessons in self reliance and integrity of purpose which enabled him to solve the successive problems of life as they came.

He was twenty-three years of age when in 1831 he came to Indianapolis, where his older brother, Calvin, had already gained distinction in the law. His first position in the capital city was as clerk in a general store. Later he opened a stock of goods of his own, and was one of the pioneer merchants of Indianapolis. After eight years he opened a private bank in a small room on Washington Street, and by insistence upon banking methods which were not then generally practiced he steered a straight course through the devious ways of early finances and laid sound and secure the foundations of a bank which today is the largest in the State of Indiana.

He gained a fortune as a banker and business man, and that fortune was generously used to promote the welfare of his home city and there has never been a name that has meant more to Indianapolis in a business and civic way than that of Stoughton A. Fletcher, Sr. He was never in politics, never held office, and the chief monument to his character and activities today is the Fletcher American National Bank. He died in his seventy-fourth year March 17, 1882.

He was three times married. His first wife was Maria Kipp, who left him with two daughters, Mrs. Laura K. Hyde and Mrs. Maria F. Ritzinger. For his second wife he married Julia Ballard, a native of Massachusetts. Of the five children born to this union one, Allen M. Fletcher, is living.

For his third wife Stoughton A. Fletcher, Sr., married Mrs. Julia A. Johnson.

Stoughton A. Fletcher, president of the bank which was founded by his honored grandfather, was born in Indianapolis November 24, 1879, a son of Stoughton J. and Laura (Locke) Fletcher. He was educated in the public schools, is a graduate of Princeton University with the degree A. B., and returned from college to begin his business career with the Fletcher National Bank. He was made assistant cashier, later vice president, and since January, 1908, has been president. Mr. Fletcher has numerous connections with other important business concerns at Indianapolis, including the management of a large family estate, but he is most widely known as a banker and is undoubtedly one of the youngest men ever chosen to direct the destinies of an institution with resources of over $35,000,000.

Mr. Fletcher is a republican, a member of the Commercial and Columbia clubs, and with all his heavy responsibilities has found time and made opportunity to identify himself closely with the important civic movements of his home city. In 1900 he married Miss May Henley.

ARCHIBALD C. GRAHAM. When Archibald C. Graham located in St. Joseph County in 1896 he was a young, practically unknown and untried lawyer. In subsequent years he has achieved all the dignity associated with the abler members of his profession, and is one of the ranking lawyers of the South Bend bar. He is one of four Graham brothers who have been identified with St. Joseph County, one as a physician at Mishawaka, another as a druggist of South Bend and the other as a South Bend banker.

Mr. Graham was born on a farm in Eckfried Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, September 1, 1871, son of John and Rebecca (McClellan) Graham. His father was born in the north of Scotland in 1823. Grandfather William Graham brought his family to America in 1837, and after a long voyage of nine weeks on the ocean landed at Quebec and by river and lake traveled to Hamilton, Ontario, and thence went into the woods of Elgin County. He acquired a tract of heavily timbered land. Years of hard and continuous labor brought many acres under culti

vation, and he developed it as a farmer and stock raiser and lived there until his death at the advanced age of ninety-eight. He married Catherine McDougal and their four children were John, Archibald, William and Catherine.

John Graham was fourteen years old when he came to America, grew up on the farm and in the woods of Ontario, and finally bought a farm of his own in Eckfried Township of Middlesex County. He inherits much of his father's vitality and vigor and is still living at the age of ninetysix. His career has been entirely identified with his farm and his interests as a livestock man. His wife, Rebecca McClellan, was born in Ontario, daughter of Angus and Flora (McLaughlin) McClellan, both natives of Scotland and also pioneers of Middlesex County, Ontario. Mrs. Rebecca Graham died at the age of fifty-five, the mother of ten children.

Archibald C. Graham attended the common schools, the high schools at Dutton and Glencoe, and for three years was a Canadian teacher. He took up the study of law privately and afterwards entered the Detroit College of Law, where he was graduated LL. B. in 1896. He at once came to Mishawaka, Indiana, and practiced there until August 1905, when he formed a partnership in South Bend, under the firm name of Brick and Graham, with the late Hon. A. L. Brick, member of Congress from the Thirteenth Indiana District from 1896 until his death in 1908. Since the death of his partner Mr. Graham has handled a large general and corporate practice alone.

January 4, 1904, he married Miss Harriet Crane. She was born at Syracuse, New York, daughter of Charles Crane, a native of Massachusetts who lives in Elkhart County, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Graham have three children: Helen, Jean and Archibald J.

Incidental to his law practice Mr. Graham has taken an active part in republican politics. He has served as chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of St. Joseph County and as a member of the Republican State and District Committees and as a delegate to many conventions. During the greater part of his residence. at Mishawaka he served as city attorney. He is affiliated with the Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter and Council of Masonry at Misha

waka, with South Bend Commandery No. 82, Knights Templars, with Mishawaka Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at South Bend. He is also a member of the Knife and Fork Club, of the St. Joseph Valley Country Club, a member of the Indiana Club, and during the war was a director of the War Chest.

OLIVER PERRY JONES. With his home at Crawfordsville, Oliver Perry Jones is Jones is spending his active life as a scientific a scientific farmer in Whitley County. The Jones family established themselves in a pioneer pioneer district of Whitley County seventy years ago. They belonged to the territorial fanıilies of Indiana, their first home having been established in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1810. The following family record is given at length because of the prominence of many individuals and the historical circumstances connected with the various removals and incidents in the Jones history.

In colonial times the first American Jones came from Wales and settled in Culpeper, Virginia. In that county John Jones was born, and was a gallant soldier with the colonists in the struggle for independence. He participated in one of the most decisive battles of the western frontier, the Battle of Point Pleasant, on the western slope of the Alleghenies at the junction of the great Kanawha and Ohio rivers. He established his permanent home in Kanawha County, Virginia, in 1797, and owned large tracts of land there, including the site of Grafton. John Jones married Frances Morris, daughter of Levi Morris of Virginia. She was an aunt of Thomas A. Morris, who later became a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Of the children of John Jones and wife William, Edmund, Thomas, John and Levi M. all located in Wayne County, Indiana.

Levi Morris Jones, grandfather of Oliver Perry Jones, was born on a farm in Culpeper County, Virginia, October 10, 1785, and was twelve years old when his parents moved to what is now West Virginia. In Kanawha County he married Mary Thomas. She was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, February 7, 1784. They were married in 1806. The father of Mary Thomas, Joseph Thomas, was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, August 3, 1759, and also took his family to Kanawha

County in October, 1797. Joseph Thomas, who died in 1839, was a Revolutionary soldier directly under the command of General Washington. His father, Henry Thomas, was born in Wales in 1728 and came to Virginia soon after his marriage. Joseph Thomas married in 1781 Rebecca Tindal, who was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, November 5, 1763. The Thomas children were Lewis, Mary, Washington, Henry, Thomas M., Rebecca Tindal, Sarah, Dolly H., Janie Pleasant, Norburn and Helena. Several of the sons were magnificent specimens of physical manhood and the pioneer instinct in them was strong. Lewis Thomas at the age of sixty-six started for the gold fields of California and died of typhoid fever en route.

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Levi M. Jones after his marriage continued farming in West Virginia until March, 1815, when he started for Wayne County, Indiana. He journeyed down the Ohio river on a flatboat to Cincinnati, and then drove across country to Wayne County. He first located at Old Salisbury and a year later bought 160 acres in Center Township of Wayne County. years later he sold that property and bought lots in Centerville, where he built a hotel, and in 1819 constructed the first brick house in the town. This brick house became associated with many important events in the history of Wayne County. Levi M. Jones also took the first contract to carry mail from Centerville to Indianapolis, and his son Lewis was the carrier, making the trip of sixty-five miles without any stop. Levi M. Jones was not only a man of much business enterprise but of generosity and confidence in his fellowmen that was frequently betrayed, and security debts swept away most of his estate. He died October 5, 1823, honored and respected, but left his family in straightened circumstances. It was his wife, a noble woman of the pioneer type, who came to the rescue of the family fortune. One of her sons speaking of her later said: "Thinking over the past and of the early history of my mother's family, my mind runs back nearly sixty-one years to the scene of the Town of Centerville, Wayne County. I fancy I see a little group of ten children and a mother and other relatives mourning over the loss of a dear father and a loving companion. The prospects for keeping the family to

gether and rearing those children would be a very gloomy one under the circumstances to my mother's friends. After a consultation about the matter the friends advised my mother to put the children 'out,' as they did not think it possible for her to keep them together and raise them. She listened to and thanked her friends for their advice but to them she said, 'nay, as long as I have a finger to scratch, these children shall never be separated.' And they never were separated except as they reached maturity and were married. The last thing we children would hear at night when we went to bed was the wheel or loom, and it was the first thing in the morning. It seemed as though she never slept. Oh, for such courage, for such a will to do, and for such economy as she used in raising her children. Would that there were more mothers in this present day who possessed the will and courage that she did. I will venture the assertion that in the first ten years after my father's death there was not a bill of $10 run by the family at any store. If ever a mother did her whole duty in raising a family of fatherless children my mother was such a one. After living to see them all grown and married except one she departed this life for a better home." She died December 20, 1848.

The children of this noble woman were: Lewis, born in Kanawha County March 26, 1807, died at his home near Centerville April 3, 1877. He first married Caroline Level, and his second wife was Ruth Commons. Sallie Jones, born November 6, 1809, was first married in 1831 to John Boggs, and in 1854 became the wife of Robert Franklin. Oliver Tindal Jones, born September 19, 1810, died at his home near Centerville December 16, 1874, his wife having been Mary King. He was a large land owner and farmer and also a banker at Centerville. Norris Jones, born August 19, 1811, and died at Connersville, Indiana, March 22, 1881, married Sabra Jenkins. Harrison Jones, born May 10, 1813, died at Centerville August 13, 1844. His wife was Eliza Bundy. Rebecca Jones, born March 15, 1815, and died in Wayne County August 7, 1866, was married to Daniel S. Shank. The next in age in the family was Washington Jones, whose career is taken up in following paragraphs. Eli Reynolds Jones, born in Wayne

County, Indiana, March 17, 1818, also lived in Whitley County, Indiana, and married Ann Crowe. Ann Jones born in Wayne County June 14, 1821, died at Indianapolis November 21, 1883, wife of Stephen Crowe. Levi Morris, youngest of the children, was born April 4, 1823, and died on his farm in Wayne County May 13, 1876. He married Matilda Jane Brown.

Washington Jones, father of Oliver Perry, was the first of the family born in Wayne County. His birth occurred December 8, 1816, at the old homestead a mile north of Centerville. He lived at home to the age of eighteen and worked for his three older brothers, who were managing the farm for their mother. He then contracted for the purchase of 160 acres in Madison County for the sum of $280, and paid for it at the rate of $9 a month. It is said that he lost but two days' work until the land was paid for. Later he bought eighty acres in Tipton County, Indiana, for $200, paying for this at the rate of $11 a month. rate of $11 a month. He also improved a lot in Centerville, but sold that at a sacrifice in order to invest $150 in 160 acres of wild land on section 28 of Etna Township, Whitley County. To this land, improved with a log cabin 14x18 feet, he moved his family September 8, 1848. that farm he did his real work in life, and kept his possessions growing until he had nearly 700 acres, most of which was divided among his children. The home farm proper contained 200 acres. He was a man of much skill and of good education. At the age of ten years he had begun working in brick yards, and put in twenty summers in Wayne County at that employment. That gave him a practical knowledge of brick making and he used this to make all the brick which entered into the construction of his fine country home in Whitley County. He began the construction of this building the same week that Fort Sumter was fired upon and it was completed January 17, 1863. At that time it was regarded as one of the finest homes in the county. Though he had meager opportunities to secure an education, he made diligent use of every opportunity, and at the age of twenty-one attended both day and night school under the instruction of his brother O. T. Jones. At the age of twenty-two he taught a school, and later spent six winters in teaching in Wayne

County. One of his pupils was Lucinda Burbank, who afterwards became the wife of Indiana's great war governor, Oliver P. Morton.

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Washington Jones evidently used a great deal of judgment and enterprse in selecting his land in Whitley County. A large part of it was covered with heavy black walnut timber, and in 1870 he sold a lot of that wood, valued at about $8,000. There was also a grove of hard maple trees, and maple sugar and syrup manufacture was a part of every year's program. He also developed a large orchard. Washington Jones began voting as a whig and afterwards was an active republican. He held many of the minor posts of responsibility wherein local affairs are administered, such as justice of the peace, township assessor and trustee. He was a member of the Baptist Church.

After a long life, deserving of every encomium that could be paid it, Washington Jones passed away at his country estate in Whitley County June 23, 1903.

January 20, 1845, he married Catherine Hunt. She died November 6, 1852, the mother of two children: Mary Jane, who was born February 20, 1846, and died October 18, 1855, and Hannah Eliza, born October 8, 1848, died April 27, 1874, the wife of Jesse Miller. On October 2, 1853, Washington Jones married a sister of his first wife, Mrs. Frances Mary Hart, widow of William Hart. She died September 6, 1873, mother of the following children: Levi Monroe, born July 22, 1854; Washington Thomas, born March 26, 1858; Oliver Perry, born March 23, 1865. October 8, 1874, Washington Jones married Mrs. Samantha Caroline (Palmer) Trumbull, widow of Lewis M. Trumbull and daughter of Samuel and Sallie (Palmer) Skinner.

Membership in such a family constitutes a badge of honor and a constant stimulus to the best attainments in life. Oliver Perry Jones was born in the old home in Whitley County March 23, 1865. His father saw to it that he had ample opportunities as a youth, and in addition to the public schools near the old home he attended Earlham College at Richmond. His training as an engineer he utilizes largely in following his chosen vocation as an agriculturist, and for twenty-five years he managed with a high degree of skill and

art a fine farm in Whitley County. When he left the farm he sought the cultured atmosphere of the old college center of Crawfordsville.

December 21, 1886, he married Miss Elsie E. Barber. She was born in Whitley County November 15, 1868, daughter of Frederick and Lucy J. (Barnes) Barber, who were also natives of Indiana. Mrs. Jones finished her education at Larwill Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have two sons and one daughter. Mark Barber, born January 20, 1888, in Whitley County, is a graduate of the Columbia City High School and finished his college work in Wabash College with the class of 1911 and the degree of Mining Engineer. After leaving college he had a college he had a most interesting and fruitful experience, being selected as member of a staff of mining engineers by the Oriental Consolidated Mining Company, and in that capacity he spent two years in Japan and Korea. Since returning from the Orient he has been engaged in the lumber manufacturing business at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. He married Miss Nellie R. James June 14, 1915. She is a native of Ohio and received a college training, being a graduate of Buchtel College.

Walter Paul Jones, born August 22, 1891, in Whitley County, graduated from Wabash College with the class of 1913, having specialized in English. He has been an instructor in different colleges and universities and in 1918 was chosen to the chair of English in the University of California. He married Miss Mildred Demaree August 30, 1916. They have one child, Elsie Barbara. Both sons are members of the Phi Beta Kappa.

The daughter is Frances D'Maris, born October 17, 1897, in Whitley County. She is a graduate of Crawfordville High School with the class of 1915, and also of the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music. April 26, 1916, she became the wife of Buren A. Beck. They have two sons, Buren, Jr., and Charles Oliver. Mr. Beck is now in the dairy business at Hammond, Louisiana.

Mr. Oliver P. Jones is a Master Mason and Odd Fellow, a republican and a member of the Baptist Church.

JUDGE SAMUEL E. PERKINS. Perkins is one of the names most suggestive of the