Bio of POUCHER, William J., Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol III, pg 322-325
JAMES L. POUCHER
There is perhaps no life record in this volume that indicates more clearly and
definitely the value of industry, determination and perseverance than that of
James L. Poucher, who was the promotor and incorporator of the Poucher Printing
& Litho­graphing Company, a business that has assumed extensive proportions. The
life story of Mr Poucher had its beginning in West Unity, Williams county, Ohio,
his parents being John C. and Clara (Stevens) Poucher. The father was born in
Lincolnshire, England, while his wife was a native of Burr Oak, Michigan. The
family home was maintained for some time in Williams county, Ohio, but when the
son, James L. Poucher, was but seven years of age the family home was removed to
South Dakota, whore settlement was made -on a farm. Thus amid rural surroundings
James L. Poucher was reared, obtaining what education he could in the country
schools and working in the fields when not occupied with the textbooks. Later he
attended night 'school in Minneapolis, coming to this city at the age of
eighteen years, at which time he took a position in the shipping department of
J. A. Shea & Company, wholesale dealers in fruits and produce. He afterward
worked for a time in the office of the United States Express Company and later
he became city circulator for the Minneapolis Times occupying that position tor
several years. He afterward spent a year as circulation manager for the Produce
News Democrat of Paducah, Kentucky, and subse-quently was for seven months
connected with the circulation department of the Minneapolis Tribune. At the end
of that time he became a salesman for the Farnham Printing & Stationery Company,
with which he remained for a year and a half, at the end of which time he joined
the Kimball Storrer Company and within a year his capability had won recognition
that resulted in his election to the vice presidency of the company Thus, step
by step, his business career was directed along the lines of energy and
enterprise, leading to successful accomplishment of his purposes. In November
1917 the company purchased the business of the Hahn & Harmon Printing Company
and a little later bought the business of the Northern Lithograph Company
and merged it with theirs, which was then incorporated under the name of the
Poucher Printing & Lithographing Company. In October, 1920, the Kimball Storrer
Company was added to that of the Poucher Printing & Lithographing Company. Thus
today three business enterprises have been merged into one and the company, of
which Mr. Poucher is now the head, is one of the chief corporations operating
along this line in Minneapolis. The business has grown to extensive proportions
and back of the success of the company stand the thoroughly modern and
progressive methods which Mr. Poucher has introduced and followed.
In 1902 was celebrated the marriage of James L. Poucher and Miss Lillian Johnson
and they have a daughter, Eleanor J. Mr. Poucher belongs to the Second Church of
Christ, Scientist, in which he has served as an usher for eight years. His
political endorsement is given to the republican party and he belongs to the
Royal Arcanum, to the Kiwanis Club, to the Automobile Club and to the Civic and
Commerce Asso­ciation. He is a self-made man in the highest and best sense of
the term and his progress has been most gratifying, while his record should be
of inspirational value to the young man who must start out in the business world
as he did, empty-handed but with broad vision as to the future and its
possibilities.