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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Bureau of Archives and History
Pennsylvania State Archives

MG-382

BUCHER-HUMMEL PAPERS

Series Descriptions
Reverend John Conrad Bucher Papers,
1734-1807, undated.
(17 folders)

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Arranged alphabetically by subject.

The papers of Reverend John Conrad Bucher (1730-1780) include French and Indian War muster rolls and returns for Leiutenant Colonel Asher Clayton's 2nd Battalion, Pennsylvania Regiment, 1764 (some signed by Conrad Bucher, Adjutant) and military orders (1759-1771), correspondence (1761-1777) (some in German, at least one with a translation), sermon notes (1734-1755), almanacs (1768 & 1771), and a print of Bucher's sister Mary Elisabeth. There are also a few letters to Mary (Hook/Hoch) Bucher, wife of J. Conrad (1788-1790).

John Jacob Bucher Papers,
1785-1855, undated.
(1 box, 8 folders)

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Arranged alphabetically by subject.

The papers of John Jacob Bucher (1764-1827) include business records (1799-1825), correspondence (1784-1827), a diary (1785-1790), a pass to travel to Switzerland 1789 (with seal), trip notes (1789), and a will and an estate inventory (1827-1840). The inventory for Susan (Horter/Hurter) wife of J. Jacob (1839), also will of her father John Horter (1823). There are also miscellaneous documents concerning the children.

John C. Bucher Papers,
1811-1881.
(1 box, 10 folders)

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Arranged alphabetically by subject.

The papers of John Conrad Bucher (1792-1851) include letters of appointment and election (1825-1850), correspondence (1813-1848), personal and travel journals (1811, 1818-1827), cash account books (1853-1867), legal documents (1839-1847), a seating diagram of Congress with names (undated), and an invitation from the President (unsigned). Also present are Ellen (Isett) Bucher personal papers (1825-1881), and books of remembrance for her daughters, one with a booklet of hair samples.

Papers of Additional Descendants,
1850-1948, undated.
(17 folders)

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Arranged alphabetically by subject.

This series includes legal documents, handwritten wills, newspaper clippings and other memorabilia for descendants (1850-1948), focusing on the line of Eliza Bucher Hummel, the daughter of John Conrad Bucher, her daughter Elizabeth Hummel Fendrich, and her granddaughter Eliza (Fendrich) MacDonald and their descendants.

Genealogical Notes,
1764-1784, 1884-1925, undated.
(9 folders)

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Arranged alphabetically by subject.

The genealogical information includes letters from various relatives regarding the Bucher and Hummel families, along with Horter, Hook and other families. A Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) form is included that takes the Bucher family back five generations. Several unidentified pictures are included and a more recent negative which appears to have been made for Mrs. Ralph Wilson. Subject files are arranged alphabetically, with individual records in chronological order. See box list for details.

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