Robert Rearick was a farmer northwest of Letcher.
Peter Murphy was a farmer west of town, but in the early days he mended shoes in a shop in Letcher.
Matthew Metcalf was a farmer east of town.
Alex Miller lived northwest of town.
Frank Heinzmann lived east of Letcher.
Jacob Eitel lived southwest of town on a farm; he was a mason and did most of that type of work in town and in the country.
Henry Albert, Jacob's brother-in-law, was a carpenter and could help with the mason work.
Broder was one of the first men to put down a well. He was the first county treasurer at the time that Letcher was the county seat.
John and Sam Askew were brothers with farms north of Letcher. John was a saloon keeper and ran a threshing rig for many years.
John Stuart was John Seward, a farmer a couple miles north of town.
Albert Stuart edited a paper in 1900.
John and George Porterfield owned farms north of Letcher in the late 1800's.
Moses Burpee and Donavan jointly owned two or three lots in town; possibly were land men.
O.F. Lindsay was an early carpenter but did not stay long.
A. B. Barker was a general store keepers and was a partner of Heald for a while.
W. E. Ryan was manager of the lumber yard where J. M. Levake was.
Ryan also owned a farm touching counterwise on the southeast town site.
Campbell McClane, spelled McLean, owned a farm one and one-half miles north of town.
W. Hale owned a lot in Block 5, Lot 17, but must have sold to Frank McCurdy who lived there in 1886.
Wheelock and Louisa Stevens owned lots in Block 5 in 1884. They must have moved to Woonsocket or Mitchell soon afterwards.
The first town-site was staked out about four miles southwest of where it stands now, and possibly that was when it was known as Remington, named after an early settler who later was County Coroner, Dr. F. A. Remington.
In the fall of 1882, the James River line of the Milwaukee Railroad reached Letcher from Mitchell, and that is the reason the town moved to the present site. Letcher was the earliest railroad town in the county.
The town was organized in what was Miner County in 1882. George A. Nixon surveyed a part of the southeast quarter of Section 15 of Township 105 west and laid out the town-site on July 7, 1882. It was dedicated on July 14, 1882 and was named for a part owner of the town-site and Assistant Secretary of Dakota Territory, Mr. O. T. Letcher. It was incorporated as a town on Jan. 27, 1895.
(The vote of incorporation passed “with the following result for incorporation 14 Votes, “Against” 12 votes.”
Soon after Letcher was incorporated, all sort of people settled here: businessmen, adventure seekers, and land locators. Many quarters of land were homesteaded and a fine farming area came into being.