Sullivan-St. Joseph-La Porte County IN Archives Biographies.....Bucher, William H. 1854 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   DR. WILLIAM H. BUCHER was born in Fostoria, Ohio, January 3, 1854. When he
was nine years old his parents died and he went to live with E. D. Boughton.
near Fostoria, with whom he remained until he was fourteen years old, working in
the summer and attending school in the winter. He then lived with an uncle one
year, and returned to his native town, where he found employment in the spoke
factory of Bement & Co., working first at odd jobs, but becoming later packer
and shipping clerk. In the summer of 1872, he entered the Studebaker Wagon and
Carriage Factory of South Bend, Ind., where he learned the trade of making
carriages. Three years later, he began house-painting, visiting several States,
but after about a year returned to South Bend and worked three years longer.
After this, he worked at carriage making in Chicago, in the factory of A. C.
Boom, becoming foreman, and, later, superintendent. In 1880, he followed the
commission business in Chicago for a time, and the next year became the
President of the Loomis Manufacturing Company at La Porte, Ind. In 1883, having
begun the study of dentistry, he continued his studies in Sullivan, and began to
practice, and is thus engaged at present. Dr. Bucher is a member of the I. O. O. F.

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Hamilton Township

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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