Edwin L. Fletcher (1856-1902) was born in Stockholm, New York, and died in Chicago, Illinois. By 1870 he had moved to Potsdam, New York. In 1878 he married Bertha L. Fletcher (b. Warner), and by 1880 they were living in Yankton, South Dakota, where Fletcher worked as a lawyer and served as the treasurer of the Christian Temperance Union. He moved to, and continued practicing law in, Sioux City, Iowa, in the mid-1890s, and by 1900 he had settled in Chicago where he went into the business of selling coal. In 1886 Fletcher wrote to Mary Baker Eddy to order Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. In 1887 he wrote to say that he wished to study Christian Science at the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, although the records do not reflect that he ever did so.

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