BIO: John Jacob BUCHER, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 191.
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  BUCHER, JOHN JACOB, son of the Rev. John Conrad Bucher, a noted early 
divine as well as an officer during the French and Indian war, was born 
January 1, 1764, in Carlisle, Pa.  In 1790, located in Harrisburg as a 
hatter and furrier; in 1796, elected coroner of Dauphin county; in 
1798, appointed justice of the peace by Governor Mifflin, and 
represented Dauphin county in the Pennsylvania Legislature, sitting at 
Lancaster, nine successive terms from 1803.  In 1810 he was appointed 
by Governor Snyder one of the commissioners for the erection of the 
public buildings at Harrisburg.  In 1818, appointed by Governor Findlay 
an associate judge for the county of Dauphin, filling the office, 
honorably, until his death, October 16, 1827.  Endowed with great 
wisdom and sagacity, and of unimpeachable integrity and honesty, he was 
called upon to fill many public and private trusts of honor and 
responsibility.  His remains now lie in the Harrisburg cemetery.  Judge 
Bucher married, March 27, 1792, Susanna Margaret Hortter, one of the 
five daughters of John Valentine Hortter, of Spires, Bavaria, who 
settled in Harrisburg in 1785.  She was born in Germantown September 
24, 1774; died in Harrisburg, December 30, 1838.  She was three years 
old when the battle of Germantown was fought, October 4, 1777, and 
remembered the experience of the family who were confined in the cellar 
of their residence, which was on the route of the battle.