BIOGRAPHIES:  John H. SIRCHER, Barron, Barron Co., WI

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Transcribed by Kate Wilson. 
Edited and submitted by  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  5 January 2004
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John H. Sircher was born in Chilton, Wis., June 4, 1858, son of Frederick
and Dorothy (Bucher) Sircher, natives of Switzerland, the former of whom
died in 1872 and the latter in 1912. John H. was the oldest of the family,
the others being: Anna, wife of David Graff; Eliza, wife of Rev. William
Erpke; Mary, wife of Frank Moss; and Minnie, wife of Adolph Jensen; all of
Chilton, Wis. The subject of this sketch was reared on his parent’s farm,
farmed for a while in his native country, and in 1890 purchased 80 acres of
timber land in Sumner Township, Barron County. He moved his family to
Barron City in 1895. For several years he was in the sawmill business and
for a while traveled as a lumber grader. In the meantime, for some eleven
years, the family operated the Railroad House at Barron. In 1913, Mr.
Sircher gave up the lumber business and took up his home in Barron
permanently. He has a pleasant home at the corner of Fifth and Division
streets, and is employed with the Inderrieden Canning Co. plant.
Fraternally, he is a member of the Modern Woodmen. Mr. Sircher was married
Jan. 13, 1877, to Bertha R. Pingel, Stockbridge, Calumet County, this
state. This union has resulted in four children: Tena, Loa, William and
Raymond. Tena was born Jan. 31, 1879, and has been head nurse at the Werner
Hospital in Barron since 1915. Loa was born Oct. 6, 1883, and is the wife
of Edward G. Kane, of Barron. William was born March 9, 1885, and is
employed with his father. Raymond was born Oct. 28, 1887, and is employed
as a stationary engineer at Cumberland, this county. He married Pearl Peck
of that place, April, 1917. Mr. Sircher and his wife are of the Dutch
Reformed Church faith, but attend the Methodist Episcopal services.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 130.

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