Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Doescher, John C 1848 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

JOHN C. DOESCHER. Probably no resident of Crete Township is better known 
throughout this part of the county than the subject of this sketch, who has 
been Postmaster at Endor for the past fifteen years, and engaged in business 
enterprises there which have proved a great accommodation to the people in 
this part of the township. He has the only store in the place, carrying a good 
stock of general merchandise, and well patronized; he also operates a sawmill 
for the manufacture of paling fences and barrel hoops, and a feed mill, both 
of which are among the practical institutions of the county. A natural 
mechanic, Mr. Doescher has been engaged in some practical mechanical 
enterprise since early life, and his experience has developed his natural 
skill. Mr. Doescher is of German parentage, being a son of Herman Doescher, 
who was born and reared in the Kingdom of Hanover, where he learned the trade 
of a rope-maker. When the harbor was begun at Bremen, he went there and 
started a rope-walk,which he carried on until he came to America. His 
settlement in this country was made in Lake County, Ind., whence he afterward 
came to the home of our subject, dying at Endor when an old man. For a fuller 
history see the biography of H. Doescher. The gentleman of whom we write is 
the youngest member of his father's family and the only child born in the 
United States. His birthplace was Brunswick, Lake County, Ind., and his natal 
day April 5, 1848. He was well reared and received a practical education in 
the schools of his native county, which he left, when he became of age, to 
take up arms in defense of the Union. He enlisted in Company G, Twelfth 
Indiana Cavalry in 1864, the regiment being under the command of Col. Reed, 
and the company being led by Capt. James M. Foster. Accompanying the regiment 
to the front Mr. Doescher participated in a number of active engagements, 
among them being the battle at Murfreesboro, where he was wounded in the leg. 
His wound, however, kept him out of the ranks but about a week. He was present 
at Mobile when Spanish Fort and Ft. Blakely succumbed to the attack of the 
Union forces and the city was surrendered. He remained in the army until 
December, 1865, when he was honorably discharged and returned to his home, 
proud to know that he had assisted his country in her hour of need. Mr. 
Doescher took up civil life as a farmer in his native county, also carrying on 
a tubular-pump business until August, 1874, when he came to Will County and 
became a resident of Endor. In the meantime, in 1870, he had taken a companion 
in Miss Henrietta Weber, their marriage being celebrated near his birthplace. 
Mrs. Doescher is of Hanoverian parentage, but is herself a native of the 
United States, having been born in Wisconsin, on the 26th of March, 1849. Her 
parents resided in the Empire State for some time after their emigration from 
Germany, afterward going to Wisconsin and still later to Illinois. Both are 
now deceased, their bodies resting in the cemetery at Dalton, Ill. Mrs. 
Doescher is an energetic, intelligent woman who was educated in Wisconsin, and 
is looking well to the ways of her household and the training of the children 
that have been given her. The family circle includes two sons and two 
daughters named respectively: Otto H. H., Tilda, Ida and Henry H. Mr. Doescher 
has been School Treasurer for years, his financial ability and strict 
integrity being recognized by his fellow-men. He is a sound Republican in 
politics, never failing to deposit his vote on election day.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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