Philip Cone Fletcher

Philip Cone Fletcher (1870 - 1931) was the presiding elder of the San Antonio district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

In St. Louis, Missouri, these stances resulted in the revocation of an invitation to take over the pastorate of a church, so he went to Texas, where he remained.

[8]In 1908, he preached in a St. Louis, Missouri, sermon that women had his "consent" to use "artificial beautifiers" such as "the powder puff, the paint brush and the brow pencil.

"[9][11][12][13][14][15]One California newspaper, though, reported that "This bouquet of advice, direct and implied, to young girls, which has emanated from various sources during the last twenty-four hours, is not all given the O.K.

"[19] In a public address in Little Rock, Fletcher said he was in favor of the General Conference of the Methodist Church extending to women all the rights of the laity on an equal footing with men.

[1][23] [25][27] After an interview, reporter-artist Marguerite Martyn of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said that Fletcher was of the poetic type, with those romantic, prematurely gray flowing locks.

He has the warm-hearted, spontaneous manner of the traditional Southerner[,] and it seemed the most natural thing in the world to be discussing with him for publication this subject [romance] usually too intimate to be of general concern.[28]Mrs.

George L. Peyton bequeathed $10,000 to Southern Methodist University for a lectureship endowment on preaching as a memorial to Fletcher.