Stark County OhArchives Obituaries.....Eicher, Jacob August 23, 1907
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The Canton Repository. Canton, Ohio. August 23, 1907
Swiss Pioneer Passes Away
Jacob Eicher, Sr., who came with his family to America in 1854 from 
Switzerland and joined a Swiss community in Tuscarawas county, later removing 
to Stark county, died Friday morning at 1 o’clock at his home, 209 East Tenth 
street, from the results of a stroke of paralysis suffered last Monday.  He 
was 88 years and seven months old.
	Born in Switzerland in the canton of Berne, January 30, 1819, he 
married Elizabeth Feller May 18, 1839, and with her and seven children crossed 
the Atlantic in a sailboat, in 39 days.  From New York city the party 
journeyed by rail to Lake Erie, sailing over the water for Cleveland.  En 
route their ship struck a sand bar near the city of Erie, and narrowly escaped 
sinking.  From Cleveland the journey to Tuscarawas county was made over the 
railroad.
	In those days Stone Creek Valley, the section of Tuscarawas county 
where the thrifty Swiss were tilling the soil, and where these people still 
live in great numbers, farm hands for swinging the scythe in the wheat fields 
received 35 cents per day.  Mr. Eicher, although a shoemaker by trade, began 
farming and his wife assisted him in getting a start by taking in spinning.  
Oftentimes Mr. Eicher swung the axe, cutting wood.
	In 1864 the Eicher family came to Stark county and located at 
Richville, near Canton, and from 1868 to 1884 he kept a grocery on South 
Cherry street.  He was a member of First Reformed church.
	Mr. Eicher was the father of 11 children, six of whom still survive—
Jacob Eicher, of the Louisville road; Mrs. William Archinal, of Trenton, N.J.; 
Gottlieb Eicher, of Columbus, and Mrs. Mary Rolli, Emma Eicher, and John 
Eicher, of Canton.  Twenty seven grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren also 
survive.
	The time of the funeral services which will be conducted by Rev. J. 
Theodore Bucher, of Grace Reformed church, will be announced later.


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