Dr. Hiester Bucher 1 2
- Born: 3 Dec 1871, Schaefferstown, Lebanon, PA 1
- Marriage (1): Vara Kalbach on 29 Sep 1898 in Lebanon, Lebanon, PA 1
- Died: 1 Aug 1946, Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA at age 74 3 4
- Buried: Reading: Charles Evans Cemetery, Berks, PA 3
FamilySearch ID: KZ1S-2WC.
Noted events in his life were:
1. Census in 1880 in Lebanon, Lebanon, PA. 5 The 1880 census recorded I. Reilly Bucher, 47, living with wife Mary E., 45; sons John C., 17; Heister, 8; and twins Paul, and May, 3. Everyone and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.
2. Book: Reading and Berks County, Pennsylvania, A History, 1925.
Hiester Bucher, M.D. - For almost two centuries there has been a Dr. Bucher in Eastern Pennsylvania to minister to the physical ailments of the district's people, and the passing of the years has brought into existence a family tradition of professional service that has few parallels in medical history. In the person of Dr. Hiester Bucher, Reading has long had a representative of this notable line in her medical fraternity, and through extensive private practice and institutional work he has splendidly carried forward the professional and personal standards of an honored name.
The found of this line of the Bucher family was Dr. Benedict Bucher, who, with his brother, Hannes Bucher, came to America from Bern, Switzerland, about 1750, settling with many of their countrymen in Cocalico, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This descent continues through Dr. Benedict (2) Bucher, born in Cocalico Township, Lebanon County, August 7, 1759, and died May 1, 1830. He became a prominent medical practitioner and leader in local affairs in the present Cornwall Township, Lebanon County, and married Susanna Mohler, born January 29, 1764, died September 1, 1827. Their son, Dr. Christian Bucher, was born in Cornwall Township, Lebanon County, April 16, 1796, and died December 22, 1860. He married Mary Valentine, and they were the parents of Dr. Isaac Reily Bucher, born August 22, 1832, father of Dr. Hiester Bucher, of this review. Dr. I. Reily Bucher married, October 2, 1860, Mary Elizabeth Hiester, and from 1861 to 1876 was a highly regarded medical practitioner of Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. In 1876 he moved to Lebanon, where he resided up to the time of his death in 1917.
Dr. Hiester Bucher was born in Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1871. in 1889 he completed his public school training with graduation from the Lebanon High School, after which he entered Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1893, and that of Master of Science from the same institution in 1896. In 1897 he was awarded his degree in medicine by the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and after one year abroad, during which he pursued post-graduate work at the University of Vienna and completed short courses at Berlin and Dresden, he returned to the United States, coming to Reading in September, 1899.
Dr. Bucher's practice has followed general lines, and for the first eight years of his Reading residence he was assistant surgeon at the Reading Hospital, then filled the post of surgeon for six years. At the present time he has official identification with the general welfare as Director of Medical Inspection of the Reading public schools, an office to which he was elected in 1912 and in which he has diligently served the community. In his private practice he has acquired a large and loyal following, and his standing in his profession is that to be confidentially expected from a practitioner whose background is that of four generations of his direct line engaged in medical work. The name of Bucher, from 1750 to 1923, has meant all that is finest in devotion to the high calling, beyond which no professional goal is attainable. Dr. Bucher is a member of numerous societies, including the American Medical Association, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, the Berks County Medical Society, and the Reading Medical Club.
Dr. Bucher's fraternal affiliations are Masonic, and he holds membership in St. John's Lodge, No. 435, Free and Accepted Masons; Excelsior Chapter, No. 27, Knights Templar; and Rajah Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a communicant of the Second Reformed Church, of Reading.
Dr. Bucher married, in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, September 29, 1898, Vara Kalbach, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Staudt) Kalback, and their children are as follows: 1. Mary Elizabeth, born November 10, 1900. 2. Hiester Kalbach, born May 11, 1905. 3. Vara Valentine, born September 24, 1907, died March 11, 1912. 4. Thomas Forbes, born October 30,1910.
Hiester married Vara Kalbach, daughter of Isaac Kalbach and Sarah Staudt, on 29 Sep 1898 in Lebanon, Lebanon, PA.1 (Vara Kalbach was born in 1872,3 died in 1953 3 and was buried in Reading: Charles Evans Cemetery, Berks, PA 3.)
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