Morgan County AlArchives Biographies.....Peacher, John Jr. 1862 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JOHN PEACHER, Jr., of the firm of Elsberry, Peacher & Co., Music Dealers,
Decatur, son of John and Louisa (Barnett) Peacher, was born in Oxford,  Scott
County, Ky., October 7, 1862; received his education at Montgomery, Ala., and
when about twenty years of age began traveling for a prominent wholesale hat
house of New York City. He continued in the hat business and other mercantile
and traveling pursuits until June 15, 1887, when he located at Decatur, Ala.,
and entered the real estate business in partnership with Mr. M. C. Hooper. He is
now Secretary and Treasurer of the Real Estate Association of Decatur, and a
Knight of Pythias.

  John Peacher was a native of Virginia and his wife of Kentucky. He now resides
in Louisville. His wife died in February, 1885, in Montgomery. Ala.

  William Barnett, Mr. Peacher's maternal grandfather, was a pioneer farmer of
Kentucky. Mr. Peacher's parents moved to Montgomery, Ala., in 1872, where his
father became a dealer in stock. The Peachers are of English origin and members
of the Christian Church, except the subject of this sketch, who is a Baptist.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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