Windham

BARROWS, Fletcher K.

Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical 
Sketches of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other 
States. Dodge. Burlington: Ullery, 1912, p 112

Fletcher K. BARROWS, banker, Brattleboro [Windham County, Vermont], was born 
24 January 1852 at Vineyard Haven [Dukes County], Massachusetts, son of Peleg 
and S. Lavinia (FLETCHER) BARROWS. He was educated at Massachusetts 
Agricultural College, Amherst [Hampshire County, Massachusetts]. In 1873 he 
succeeded to coal business of his father, among the earliest coal dealers in 
Brattleboro; afterwards for twenty-five years a dry goods merchant, retiring 
from business in 1902; has been trustee Brattleboro Savings Bank since 1894, 
vice president 1899-1907, president since 1907. 

In 1877 he [Fletcher K. BARROWS] married Stella E. MARSHALL of Brattleboro. 
For eight years Mr. BARROWS was an officer of the National Guard of Vermont, 
first lieutenant Company I, First Regiment, for four years. Politically he 
is a Republican, and in religious preference, a Universalist. Mr. BARROWS is 
a member of Columbian Lodge No. 36, Free & Accepted Masons, and is a trustee 
of Brooks Free Library, Brattleboro.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly