BIO: George W. BOUCH, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 349-350
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  GEORGE W. BOUCH, who is engaged in farming in Bell Township, Clearfield 
County, Pa., where he is one of the representative citizens, was born 
December 27, 1840, in Armstrong County, Pa., and is a son of George and Sarah 
(Daugherty) Bouch.
  George Bouch was born in Armstrong County, Pa., and moved from there to 
Clearfield County in 1859, settling at Clover Run.  Four years later he moved 
his family to Jefferson County, where his accidental death took place in 
1864, at the age of fifty-five years.  He married Sarah Daugherty, who died 
in March, 1892, when in her seventy-fifth year.  The maternal grandfather was 
of Irish extraction, but the paternal grandparents, Oxinas and Rachel (Yont) 
Bouch, were natives of Germany.  Seven children were born to George Bouch and 
his wife, and of these the survivors are:  George W.; Sarah, who is the wife 
of J. Weilick, of Altoona, Pa.; Jane, who lives at Sinking Valley; Hannah, 
who is the wife of John Weilick; Angelina, who lives in Clearfield County, 
and Florence, who lives at home.
  George V. Bouch had very few early advantages and after boyhood found 
employment away from home, and after coming to Clearfield County worked at 
lumbering and in the woods until after his marriage, when he settled on his 
present farm in Bell Township.  He is still interested in lumbering to some 
extent but gives his main attention to agricultural pursuits.  During the 
Civil War he served one year as a member of Co. K, 105th Pa. Vol. Inf., under 
Captain McKnight, in the Army of the Potomac.  His regiment was encamped near 
Washington, D. C., in the closing months of the war, and he was honorably 
discharged and mustered out at Pittsburg.
  In 1862 Mr. Bouch was married to Miss Catherine Peace, who was born January 
23, 1844, in Center County, Pa., a daughter of Solomon and Mary (Donmire) 
Peace, and a granddaughter of Adam and Barbara Donmire.  Mr. and Mrs. Bouch 
had the following children born to them:  William, who lives in Bell 
Township, married Emma McGinnis, and they have five children; Joseph, who 
lives in Bell Township, married Mary Yont, and they have four children; 
Lizzie, who is the wife of William Weirick, of Altonna, Pa., and they have 
four children; Ellen, who is the wife of E. Henderson, of Bell Township, and 
they have three children; James, who lives in Bell Township, married Mary 
Harklerood, and they have two children; Edward, who is in business at 
Westover, Pa., married Lulu Snyder, and they have three children; Miles, who 
lives at McGee's Mills, married Lizzie Snyder and they have one child; Clyde, 
who lives in Bell Township, married Jennie Davis and they have one child; 
Arthur, who lives with his father, married Elinor Wolf, and they have two 
children.  Mr. and Mrs. Bouch are members of the Methodist Protestant church, 
with which he united forty-five years ago.  He is a Democrat in his political 
views and has served one term as township supervisor.  He takes a justifiable 
amount of pride in his large family of vigorous descendants.