Brief Life History of Jakob Konrad
When Jakob Konrad Bucher was born on 21 October 1853, in Bassersdorf, Zürich, Switzerland, his father, Hans Jacob Bucher, was 33 and his mother, Anna Barbara Brunner, was 29. He married Harriet Elizabeth Duley on 25 December 1878. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years and Oakfield, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. He died on 10 July 1935, at the age of 81, and was buried in Rosendale, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Jacob Bucher, "United States Census, 1880"
- Jacob Bucher, "Wisconsin, Marriages, 1836-1930"
- Jacob C. Bucher, "Find A Grave Index"
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1854 · The Creation of the Republican Party
A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim that the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Butcher .
German and Swiss German (also Bücher): topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or beech wood, from Middle High German buoche ‘beech tree’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant, or a habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Buch. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine).
French: occupational name for a woodsman, from a derivative of buche ‘log’. Alternatively, in Alsace and Lorraine, a surname of German origin (see 2 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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