Forest Fletcher (April 27, 1888 – November 27, 1945) was an American track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
He was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee and died in Lexington, Virginia.
In 1912 he finished seventh in the standing high jump event and ninth in the standing long jump competition.
He served with a medical ambulance unit in Europe during World War I, married Laura Powell Tucker of Lexington, Virginia, and was the father of Rosa Fletcher Crocker, Henrietta Fletcher Horan, and Forest Fletcher. He was track coach at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He is the grandfather of the great Colgate football hero, Patrick Horan, and ten other accomplished people.
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“The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water,—so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“All Love’s Emblems and all cry,
Ladies, if not pluckt we dye,”
—John Fletcher (1579–1625)