Background
Fletcher, Henry was born on September 29, 1877 in Brooklyn. Son of George H. and Ida (Sharp) Fletcher.
Fletcher, Henry was born on September 29, 1877 in Brooklyn. Son of George H. and Ida (Sharp) Fletcher.
Student gymnasium. Hanover, Germany. Graduate Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, 1894. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1898, Master of Arts, 1901.
Bachelor of Laws cum laude, Harvard, 1901.
Member firm Fletcher, Sillcocks & Leahy, 1902-1920, now Fletcher & Brown. Director, member trust committee Irving Trust Company. Director, member Executive Committee Directory of Directors Company.
Director.
President Fletcher Brothers. Chairman of the Board Swan & Finch Company (Standard Oil subsidiary), 1915-1922. Director Arex Indemnity Company.
Member firm Fletcher, Sillcocks & Leahy, 1902-1920, now Fletcher & Brown. Member reception commission to French and British War Commission, May 1917. Member Oil Trade Committee of All Liberty Loan Drives.
Member citizens committee New York Public Library.
Member City Committee Citizens Union (formerly v. chairman). Member board of managers American Tract Society.
Member Executive Board, board directors Protestant Council of New York City. Member of advisory committee Individual Underwriters.
Member Board of Estimate and Taxation, Greenwich.
Member Greenwich Library (formerly president). Member banking and currency committee, past director Commerce and Industry Association. Member American, New York State New York County bar associations, Association Bar City New York, American branch International Law Association, National Council National Economics League, New York Genealogical and Bibliographical Society, American Museum Natural History, American Geography Society, Archeological Institute American, American Economics Association, Bibliographical Society London, American Academy Political and Social Science, Society for Preservation of North.E. Antiquities, English-Speaking Union, Legal.
Aid Society, New England Society (past director), Civil Service Reform Association, American Economics Association, Academy Political Science, National Municipal League, United States, New York and Greenwich (Connecticut) C.’s of C., Harvard Economics Society, Bibliophile Society (Boston).
Saint Nicholas Society, Council Foreign Relations, Vermont Society, New York Zoöl. Society Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association, Descendants Colonial Governors, Order Founders and Patriots of America, South.R., Phi Delta Phi, Pi Gamma Mu, Selden Society (Great Britain), Royal Economics Society (London), Greenwich Society Artists (associate), Phi Beta Kappa.
Clubs: Down Town, Century, University, Grolier, Harvard, Yale (life), City, Uptown, Fort George (Florida).
Married Mary Sinclair Sloane, June 7, 1909 (died November 1910). Married second, Ethel Thompson, June 3, 1913.