BIO:  Samuel BUCHER, Franklin Township, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 405

SAMUEL BUCHER, farmer, P.O. Mummasburg, was born November 21, 1819.  His great-
grandfather, more than 200 years ago, settled on a farm in York County, near the 
Adams County line, on the farm which has descended directly from that ancestor 
and is yet owned by Jacob Bucher, one of his lineal descendants.  Upon that 
tract five generations were born and six have lived.  The authentic history of 
this family begins with Michael, the grandfather of our subject, who married 
Elizabeth Carr, and to whom were born John, Michael, Jacob, Mary and Elizabeth.  
The latter, the only one now living, resides in York County, aged eighty-five 
years; the eldest son, John, the father of Samuel, married, about 1819, Barbara 
Driver, and a part of the ancestral farm became his patrimony.  There he and his 
wife remained during life, and the new house was built across the line in Adams 
County.  They reared the following children:  Samuel, Elizabeth, John, Michael, 
Maria, Anna and Barbara.  May 14, 1846, Samuel married Anna M. Crowl.  In 1842 
he purchased his present farm, on which is located one of the oldest tanneries 
in the township, and for thirty years has carried on the business of tanning.  
To our subject and wife seven children have been born:  David M., Mary, Jacob 
F., Elizabeth E., George E., Sarah E. and Samuel Gilbert; four are still living.  
Jacob F. married Fannie, a daughter of Levi Musselman, of Cumberland County, 
whose history will be seen in another part of this volume; Sarah became the wife 
of U. Grant Shook, of Franklin County.  Mr. Bucher has in his possession one of 
the oldest Bibles in Adams County, date of 1736.  He is one of the best-known 
men of Franklin Township, and bears a name which has never been linked to 
dishonor.  The Buchers have for many years been members of the Mennonite Church, 
but Mrs. Bucher belongs to the Lutheran Church.