Frank Boucher

History of Montana, Joaquim Miller, 1894 
  
Frank Boucher, an enterprising and successful clothing 
merchant of Butte City was born October 26, 1858, a 
native of Quebec Canada, of which city his parents, 
Enos B (a prominent farmer) and Victoria (Deschene) 
Boucher were also natives. They had ten children, of 
whom nine are still living. The elder Boucher died 
February 5, 1889, in the eightieth year of his age 
and his wife is still living, a resident of the old 
homestead, now in her seventy-fifth year. 

Their seventh child, the subject of this sketch, was 
educated in the public schools of Quebec and spent 
three years as an apprentice to the blacksmith's 
trade. In 1879 he came to Butte and there being 
nothing for him then to do in his line, he cut cord 
wood for the first two winters at $1.50 per cord, 
and then he opened a shop on Arizona Street where he 
carried on his trade as a blacksmith for two years. 
Then he sold his business and engaged in the clothing 
trade in company with E.A. Dany, putting in $10,000 
while Mr. Dany gave to the business the advantages of his 
experience; but at the end of eleven months they were in 
debt $24,000 while they had only $18,000 in stock. Seeing 
something wrong, Mr. Boucher gave his partner a few 
hundred dollars to get him out, mortgaged his assets 
and pulled victoriously through, paying all the indebtedness 
alone and meanwhile making a signal success with is 
business. He now has a large and commodious store on 
45 East Park Street, filled with a choice stock of 
clothing, gents' furnishing goods, hats, caps, boots, 
and shoes and he is considered one of the most 
successful and reliable businessmen of the city. 
He is a bright,capable and enterprising merchant. 

Mr. Boucher was married in 1890 to Laura Adams, a native of 
New York and they have a daughter named Mary Hallie Boucher. 

As to fraternal relations Mr. Boucher belongs to the 
A.O.U.W., the Select Knights, the Knights of Labor, 
the Maccabes, the National Union and the Canadian 
Institute. In his political sympathies he is a 
Republican and he and his wife are members of the 
Catholic Church. 

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