Bios.Tulsa,OK SARCHET, C. M.
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Posted by Paul Grose on Mon, 30 Nov 1998
Surname: SARCHET, HUTCHINSON, MONTGOMERY
C. M. SARCHET
Vol. 3, p. 1217 
It is a newspaper correspondent that Mr. Sarchet has been best known and has done his most distinctive work in Oklahoma. His home has been in this state and territory for more than fifteen years, and he is now located at Tulsa. He is a veteran newspaper man and has come into close touch with many of the interesting phases of Oklahoma's development, particularly in political affairs. 
Corbin Marquand Sarchet was born at Charleston, Illinois, January 23, 1871. His parents were Solomon Bichard and Rose Anne (HUTCHINSON) Sarchet, both of whom were natives of Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio. They were the children of the third generation of the Sarchet and Hutchinson families in that county. The Sarchets were French colonists from the Isle of Guernsey, while the Hutchinsons came from England by way of Jamaica. Solomon Bichard Sarchet is still living in Kinmundy, Illinois. 
There is an interesting ancestry behind this quiet and hard-working newspaper correspondent of Oklahoma. The Sarchets were members of a French Huguenot colony that immigrated from Guernsey Island in 1805 and settled Guernsey County, Ohio, along with members of the Marquand, LaSure, Bichard, LaVires, Naftels, DeFrancis, Gibeaut, Corbet, Ogier and other families, all of French stock. Thomas Sarchet is said to have left France along in the closing years of the sixteenth or early seventeenth century because of the persecution inflicted upon Huguenots and he found refuge with many others of his people on Guernsey Isle. Members of the family in later generations were in the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the late '50s a colony of people from Guernsey County, Ohio, emigrated to Illinois and located in Coles County. They came overland in covered wagons and Solomon Bichard Sarchet and bride were among the colony. 
In his native town of Charleston, Illinois, Mr. Sarchet spent his youth and early manhood. He graduated from Charleston High School in May, 1888, and for two years attended Campbell University at Holton, Kansas. With the exception of about three years spent as clerk in drug and grocery stores he has always been in some phase of newspaper work. He began as city editor of the Daily Plain Dealer of Charleston, Illinois, in 1896. A year later he went to the Daily Beacon Light at Pana, Illinois. 
His experience with Oklahoma affairs began in 1899. For a few months he was on the staff of the Daily Gazette at Oklahoma City, and after February, 1900, spent three and a half years as city editor on the Daily State Capital at Guthrie. Since then he has been engaged in newspaper correspondence, publicity and magazine work, and professionally he has covered practically every quarter of the state, and has recently taken up his home at Tulsa. 
His work as a newspaper man naturally brought him into close touch with politics. While living in Illinois he cast his first vote for Joseph G. CANNON for congressman. In 1896 he was secretary of the Frank K. DUNN Republican Club at Charleston, this club being a member of the State Association of Republican Clubs organized by Charles W. RAYMOND. While at Guthrie he was in charge of the press bureau of the Republican State Central Committee of Oklahoma from 1908 to 1913, and was a member of the State Central Committee for Logan County for 1912-13. He has also sat as a delegate in the republican state conventions of 1908,1910, 1912 and 1914. 
His family for several generations back have been active members of the Methodist Church. Mr. Sarchet is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and has been a member of that organization since 1906. On September 1, 1900, at Guthrie he married Stella Huggins MONTGOMERY, then a resident of Guthrie but who was born at Petersburg, Illinois, November 23, 1883. To their marriage have been born two children: Rebecca, now fourteen years of age; and Corbin Marquand, Jr., aged nine. 
Transcribed by Paul Grose, November 28, 1998