Papers, 1769-1912, including letters, 1861-1874, written to David A. Bucher, dentist of Shade Gap, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania and later, of Bridgewater, Rockingham County, Virginia. The letters are from relatives and friends in Bridgewater, Virginia, Martinsburg, West Virginia, Hancock, Maryland, Orbisonia, Carlisle, McConnellsburg, Gettysburg and Round Grove, Pennsylvania and Polk City, Iowa. One letter concerns the Battle of Gettysburg.
Collection also includes legal documents; voting list, 1789; delinquent tax list, 1792, of Berkeley County, Va. [W. Va.]; land grants; and records, 1870, of the Grand Division of Virginia Sons of Temperance.
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Papers, 1769-1912, including letters, 1861-1874, written to David A. Bucher, dentist of Shade Gap, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania and later, of Bridgewater, Rockingham County, Virginia The letters are from relatives and friends in Bridgewater, Virginia, Martinsburg, West Virginia, Hancock, Maryland, Orbisonia, Carlisle, McConnellsburg, Gettysburg and Round Grove, Pennsylvania and Polk City, Iowa. One letter concerns the Battle of Gettysburg. Collection also includes legal documents; voting list, 1789; delinquent tax list, 1792, of Berkeley County, Virginia [West Virginia.]; land grants; and records, 1870, of the Grand Division of Virginia Sons of Temperance.
Written to David A. Bucher, McConnellsburg, Fulton County, Pennsylvania from friends and relatives in Gettysburg, Warfordsburg, and Camp Biddle near Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
To David A. Bucher, Three Springs, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, from Sarag Jane Hamilton, near Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania and others.
To David A. Bucher from Libby A. Slater, "Lydia," E. Slater, Sada Jane Hamilton, Jesse D. Bucher, Kate Blocher, and Mollie A. Bear.
To David A. Bucher from Libbie Slater, Yillia Wagner, and others.
To David A. Bucher, Broad Top City, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, from Oliver Blocher, Yillia Wagner, Jesse D. Bucher, and "Em" Alexander.
To David A. Bucher, Orbisonia, Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania, from "Alexander," Jesse Bucher, A.M. Baer, and Mollie A. Bear. Included is a letter: "Jesse" to "Dear Friends at home," March 6, 1870, commenting on the 1870 Virginia law exempting a person from old debts if he is not worth more than $2000.
To David A. Bucher from Mollie (Bear?), Jesse and Emily "your brother and sister," "Zill," and David Baer.
First mention of dentistry in letters beginning in August 1870.
To David A. Bucher from David Baer, Mollie Braniff, "Em," and Ithamar R. Scott.
To David A. Bucher from Margaret McNeely, Lucinda J. Ranck at Three Springs, Pennsylvania, Kate Blocher at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Scott Mack, "Em" Alexander at Polk City, Iowa, "Jesse" and Emily Bucher at Montezuma.
To David A. Bucher from "Em" Alexander at Polk City, Iowa telling of the emigration from Polk City to Missouri, Kansas, California, and Oregon; and Kate Blocher at Gettysburg. List of the licensed dentists in Pennsylvania in 1871 published by the Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Company. Letter, April 20, 1871, from "brother Jesse Bucher, Montezuma, to David A. Bucher, stating "But a word while I think of it, about that Strychnine. Be very careful with your Prof. Campbell. For although you may not have the remotest idea of poison, yet you may get a dose through Jealousy which may be caused by your success in your business. Keep a sharp lookout and I would take an early opportunity, if I were you, of totally dissolving partnership and leaving their neighborhood."
To David A. Bucher from the Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Company, Boston, Massachusetts; sister McNeely; and "Em" at Polk City, Iowa.
To David A. Bucher from "Em" at Polk City, Iowa; Kaate Blocher at Gettysburg, Pensylvania; Louie Kuhn at Harrisonville, Pennsylvania; and various local people abou this dentistry practice.
To David A. Bucher who is temporarily at Bridgewater, Rockingham County, Virginia, from "Louie," "Mollie," and "the same old Coon Em." Also, a letter from David A. Bucher, now back at Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, to Mr. Young, March 6, 1872, saying he plans to return to Virginia in September. Letter, March 13, 1872, from R.S. Kuhn, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, to David A. Bucher.
To David A. Bucher, Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, from Jesse and Emily Bucher at Montezuma, and "Em" at Des Moines, Iowa.
To David A. Bucher, Shade Gap, Pennsylvnaia, and in September, in Bridgewater, Rockingham County, Virginia, from "Em," Des Moines, Iowa, "Mollie" and others.
To David A. Bucher at Bridgewater, from "Mollie" at Shade Gap, C.G. Speck, Alexandria, Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania, "Emma" of Shirleysburg, Pennsylvania, "Mother," and "Sister Ella" and others.
Letter, February 8, 1873, from "C.G.S.," Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, telling of the difficulties of teaching and stating, "That a Teacher should be worried by arbitrary and refractory scholars was beyond my comprehension until I found it out by sad experience."
To David A. Bucher from "Em" at Polk City, Iowa; J.T. Logan, Orbisonia; the Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Co.; C.G. Speck, Shippensburg, Pa., April 27, 1873, about his new position as a teacher at the Cumberland Valley Normal School; "Mollie" mentioning that Bucher was married and coming home on his wedding trip, June 10, 1873. David A. Bucher, Bridgewater, to "Dear Friends at home," June 20, 1872, about his dental practice in Bridgewater. Four letters from Bucher to "Pettie," July 28, 1873.
Scope and Contents Letter to David A. Bucher, Bridgewater, from C. Edgar Salyards; an advertisement of C.N. Howard & Co., New York, to W. Witheson, Jr., Waynesboro, Virginia Ralph in diplomatic service, Innsbruck, Austria, to Miss Mildred Weaver, Waynesboro, Virginia, August 14, 1911, mentioning visits to the museum, the Hof Kirche, and a battlefield Ralph, Innsbruck, to Miss Mildred Weaver, August 21, 1911, telling of his visit to the battlefield of Berg Isel and of the 81st birthday celebration of the Emperor Franz Joseph Ralph, Constantinople, to Miss Mildred Weaver, Quincy, January 17, 1912, telling of attending a new opera from Vienna called Die Keusche Suzanne.
To David A. Bucher from Kate Blocher, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, "Mell" in Shade Gap, and others.
To David A. Bucher from his sister Emma Bucher, cousin Kate Blocher, and Mary J. Neeley (Mollie).
To David A. Bucher from his cousin David Baer, Kate Blocher, cousin Maggie Ohier, cousin Mollie A. Bear, and others.
To David A. Bucher from Jesse and Emily Bucher and Mollie at Shade Gap.
Of David A. Bucher, temperance speech handwritten by D.A. Bucher, and a penmanship book written in by D.A. Bucher including minutes of a meeting of the Odd Fellows of Bridgewater Lodge No. 120, November 21, 1872.
Of Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia).
For Isaac Chenowith to be brought before the Berkeley County Court on the third Tuesday of August to answer a contempt charge, signed by Mo Hunter.
Between George Tringle of Berkeley County and Richard Rigg, signed by P. Pendleton, and including a document concerning the agreement.
For the sheriff of Berkeley County to summon Charles Magill and Isaac Chinoweth.
60 For land to be surveyed for Andrew Waggoner, signed by John Harvie.
J. T. Mason to the Worshipful Court of Berkeley County, regarding the suit between Briscoe and Conway.
For sheriff of Berkeley County to summon Charles McGill and Isaac Chenoweth to appear, signed by Mo Hunter.
Between Jacob Ong of Martinsburgh, Berkeley County, Virginia, carpenter, and Robert Willcox of the same place.
Regarding the dispute between George Briscoe and George Riely and Cornelius Conway.
That John Tingle and Mary Benett will take the deposition of William Baily and Edward Beeson.
Of William Baily given to Berkeley Court in the suit depending between John Tingle and Mary Bennet, plaintiffs, and Charles Magill, defendant.
To John Morrel and Samuel Morrel, signed by Governor Henry Lee.
Between Josias Herbert of Berkeley County, Virginia, and Cumberland Wilson of the town of Dumfries.
Of tax Delinquents on the East Side of Ossequan Creek.
Of Smith Slaughter in a suit depending between George Cole Briscoe and Cornelius Conway in Berkeley Court.
Of Moses Hunter in the suit of John Tingle, heir at law of George Tingle, decd., by Mary Bennett, his guardian, as complainants, and Charles Magill and Isaac Chennowith, children, as defendants.
Of William Hinshaw in a dispute depending in chancery in Berkeley Court between Tingle's heirs and Charles Magill.
To summon Robert Worthington to Court to answer the petition of Magnus Tate, signed by M. Hunter.
To Isaac Means, signed by Gov. Robert Brooke.
Between James Sargent of Hampshire County and Margaret, his wife, and Daniel Loy.
To Thomas Ewes, signed by Gov. Robert Brooke.
To bring James Faulkner to court, signed by Mo Hunter.
Of Mo Hunter about a suit between William Slaughter and Cornelius Conway.
Between Daniel Loy and Christiana, his wife, of Hampshire County, Virginia, and John Loy of the same place.
About John Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, who stood incriminated by an inquisition of a grand jury of the crime of murder of a Negro slave named Jack, the property of Alexander Robinson.
Between Jacob Coons, Senior, of Berkeley County, Virginia, and John Bowman of Berkeley County, Virginia
Of Isaac Means and Nancy, his wife, of Hampshire County, Virginia, and Edward Taylor of the same place.
To Nehemiah Hunley, signed by Governor James Barbour.
Of Aaron Kennedy and Daniel Oburn due to John Wilson, signed by David Hunter, Clerk of Berkeley County, Virginia
To Jacob Parker, signed by Governor Thomas M. Randolph.
For Jacob Zumbre to appear, signed by John Porterfield, Berkeley County, Virginia
Between Ephraim Means and Ellen, his wife, and Edward Taylor.
Of land ranted Jacob Parker, signed by Governor John Floyd.
Between James Curtis and Royal Strother and Anthony Chambers, Berkeley County, Virginia
Stating that Charles D. Stewart who swore that he had delivered to Jacob Van Doren, with whom Royal Struther lives, a copy of the within notice, signed by Johnston Magowen.
Between Daniel Mathews and Easter, his wife, of Rockingham County, Virginia, and George Sites of the same place.
to Frederick Kaniston, signed by Lieutenant Governor Wyndham Robertson.
For Edmund Bridge, executor of the will of Mary Coffey and trustee for Elizabeth Bridge.
Of land granted John Parker, signed by Governor James McDowell, Esq.
From Jacob P. Ridenour to William Taylor.
To John Loy, signed by Governor Joseph Johnson with enclosed map.
For Elizabeth Strawdeman, widow of Adam Strawdeman; Jacob Strawdeman; Henry Strawdeman; Henry Richman and Mary Ann, his wife; William Strawdeman; Absalom Lee and Catherine, his wife; and Leonard M.N. Strawdeman to appear at the Hardy County, Virginia, Court.
That Absalom Lee has performed one day of extra labour on the land in said precinct.
Of agreement between Wm. Campbell and D. A. Bucher for instruction in the Branches of Dentistry that Campbell is to give Bucher.
Of agreement between William Campbell and D.A. Bucher that Bucher is to pay Campbell $100 for instruction in dentistry.
BetweenDr. W.A. Hinchman and Dr. D.A. Bucher, both of Broad Top City, Huntingdon Co., Pennsylvania.
Snyder grants unto Jacob F. Stouffer the "right, title, and interest" in his invention fo the sum of $10. D.
Of Robert Worthington to Magnus Tate, Jr.
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