BIOGRAPHY: Dr. John E. MAUCHER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 258-9
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DR. JOHN E. MAUCHER, one of the best posted physicians of northern Cambria 
county, and now a successful practitioner of Carrolltown, is a son of Francis S. 
and Anna Mary (Smith) Maucher, and was born in Bavaria, Germany, December 15, 
1825.
     That Dr. Maucher has been eminently successful as a practitioner of 
medicine is but natural, for in addition to possessing a mind peculiarly adapted 
to the profession, he comes from an ancestry which has furnished many physicians 
of note, among them being his father and his grandfather.
     Dr. Maucher received his literary education in Neuburg college, from which 
world-renowned institution he graduated in 1844, and his professional training 
was obtained in the medical department of the University of Munich, which he 
entered in 1846, and where he studied four years. After making thorough 
preparation in his profession, he practiced for about eleven months with his 
father. In 1852, believing that the new world offered better opportunities for 
the young professional man than the old world, he emigrated to America. He first 
located in Pittsburg, but remained there only a short time, when in February of 
1853 he came to Carrolltown, where he has remained ever since. He was the first 
regular physician to locate in that place. In his profession he has been a 
general practitioner, he has pushed his studies and his practice a little 
further along some lines than along others. In obstetrical cases he has been 
unusually successful, and in his treatment of between eleven hundred and twelve 
hundred cases, has had but four fatalities. He has also been successful in the 
treatment of pulmonary diseases, having effected some remarkable cures of this, 
the most dreaded of diseases. The secret of Dr. Maucher's remarkable success 
lies, perhaps, more in the fact that he has always been a diligent student, than 
in anything else. This, coupled with the fact that he has been a close observer, 
and has carefully noted his observations, has enabled him to diagnose a case 
very closely—the first and most necessary requisite in the successful treatment 
of diseases. Prior to 1886, Dr. Maucher was very active as a practitioner, but 
for the last ten years has preferred to relinquish an out-door practice, and has 
confined himself to the office. Religiously, Dr. Maucher is an ardent and devout 
member of the Roman Catholic church, and has been secretary of the church in his 
community for thirty-six years.
     Politically, the doctor is a republican, keeps well posted on the political 
events of the day, but has never been an aspirant for office, except in his own 
borough, where he held the office of school director for twenty-three years; for 
sixteen years he was a member of the town council, postmaster for eleven years, 
and burgess one year.
     April 19, 1853, Dr. Maucher and Mary A., daughter of Michael Steigerwald, 
of Carrolltown, were united in marriage, and eight children have blessed this 
union: Amelia, wife of John L. Walters, of Carrolltown; Rudolph, assistant 
inspector in the custom-house at Newport News, Va.; Adelaide, deceased; Albert, 
deceased; who having graduated from the Baltimore College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, successfully practiced his profession ten years — three of them in 
Nicktown, this county, and seven of them in Carrolltown — and was a young man 
having very flattering prospects for a successful professional career; William, 
a member of the Benedictine order, known as Rev. P. Alcuin, located at St. 
Vincent's college; he is an artist of considerable skill and taste, and an 
electrician of ability. He was ordained at St. Vincent's Abbey, near Latrobe, 
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1886; Joseph V., who graduated from the 
Baltimore College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1885, and is now engaged in the 
drug business at Carrolltown; Victor, who graduated from St. Vincent's college, 
and is now a music teacher in Johnstown; and Rosa, at home with her father.