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On this date (April 5) in 1952, Milton Joseph Fletcher, age ninety, died in Sarasota, Florida.
Justice Robert H. Jackson soon learned the sad news, and he grieved. More than forty years earlier, when Jackson was seventeen years old, he had attended Jamestown High School in Jamestown, New York, for a post-graduate year. Milton Fletcher had been Robert’s JHS Principal. And he became one of the most important friends and influences in Jackson’s life.
Robert Jackson grew up about six miles southeast of Jamestown, in the hamlet of Frewsburg, New York. He attended Frewsburg High School. That is where Milton Fletcher first saw Jackson. During one winter, perhaps in 1909, Mr. Fletcher took his JHS debate team by sleigh to Frewsburg. They competed against the home team. It won–or as Fletcher saw it, Jackson won the contest for Frewsburg HS. Fletcher’s daughter said that “[f]rom then on, I doubt if there was anyone who watched Robert’s brilliant career with more