Larimer County, History of Colorado, BIOS: SARCHET, Fancher (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 218-219



FANCHER SARCHET.

	Fancher Sarchet, who since 1906 has been an active and able 
member of the Fort Collins bar, was born in Linn county, Iowa. November 
1, 1879, and comes of French Huguenot ancestry, being a great-grandson 
of one who bore the same name and who in 1806 became one of the 
founders of Cambridge, Ohio. while in 1809 he was chosen the first 
county treasurer of Guernsey county, Ohio. With the passing years 
representatives of the name removed to the west, the family home being 
ultimately established in Linn county, Iowa. where Fancher Sarchet of 
this review was born and spent his early youth. His public school 
education was supplemented by a course of study in Cornell College, a 
Methodist institution at Mount Vernon, Iowa, which he entered at the 
age of seventeen, remaining a student there for three years.

	Mr. Sarchet was a young man of twenty when he became a resident 
of Colorado, settling first in Boulder, and later he took up the study 
of law in the office and under the direction of E. A, Ballard, an 
attorney of that city. He next became a student in the Denver Law 
School and following his admission to the bar located for practice in 
Fort Collins, where he has continuously remained since 1906. Along with 
those qualities indispensable to the lawyer-a keen, rapid, logical mind 
plus the business sense, and a ready capacity for hard work-he brought 
to the starting point of his legal career certain rare gifts, including 
eloquence of language and a strong personality. His is an excellent 
presence, an earnest, dignified manner and marked strength of character 
and these, combined with his thorough grasp of the law and ability to 
accurately apply its principles, have proven important factors in his 
effectiveness as an advocate.

	In 1908 Mr. Sarchet was appointed to the position of deputy 
district attorney under George H. Van Horn and the following year was 
reappointed by George A. Carlson, under whom he served until the latter 
became governor of Colorado in January. 1915. One of the newspapers of 
the state in this connection said: "Mr. Sarchet's career as a public 
official was marked by two dominant characteristics-the exercise of 
kindness and humanity and a tearless, vigorous prosecution of 
offenders. He is an open, fearless fighter, a careful, resourceful 
lawyer and a man of deliberate and mature judgment. While deputy 
district attorney for Larimer county, he had entire charge of the 
prosecution of bootleggers, and in the hundreds of prosecutions 
conducted by him, succeeded in convicting practically every offender. 
In addition to this part of his public duties he had charge of many 
important felony cases, which he handled with great success. He also 
had entire control of all juvenile delinquents and in the discharge of 
this portion of his duties rendered marked service. His record is one 
of which Larimer county and the eighth judicial district may well be 
proud."

	It was in the year 1908 that Mr. Sarchet was married to Miss 
Nellie Herring, a daughter of Rowl Herring, of Laporte, and a niece of 
Judge H. I. Garbutt of Fort Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Sarchet have two 
children, a son and a daughter, Clark Herring Sarchet and Doris J. 
Sarchet.

	In politics Mr. Sarchet is a stalwart republican and an earnest 
worker in behalf of the party yet allows nothing to interfere with the 
faithful performance of his professional duties and his devotion to his 
clients' interests is one of his marked characteristics.