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REUBEN FANCHER.
For a half century Reuben Fancher has made his home in Lake county and is
now living a retired life at Crown Point. He was for many years actively
identified with agricultural interests, but now is enjoying a well earned
rest. His birth occurred in Huron county, Ohio, on the 28th of April, 1834,
and he comes of English ancestry. His grandfather and his father both bore
the name of Thaddeus Fancher, and his mother bore the maiden name of Amy
Chapman. She was born in Connecticut and was a daughter of Cyrus Chapman,
who was also of English lineage. To these parents were born twelve children,
of whom seven are yet living.
Reuben Fancher, the eldest of the family, was reared in Huron county, Ohio,
until twenty years of age, when he started out in life on his own account
and, believing that he might have better business opportunities in a less
thickly settled district, he went to Michigan, where he attended the public
school during the winter months. March 20, 1855, he came to Crown Point, and
at that time his capital consisted of only forty dollars in gold, but he
possessed a resolute and determined spirit, renting a tract of land on which
he began farming. He also bought stock, and when his financial re-sources
had increased to a sufficient extent he purchased eighty acres of land, to
which he added until his farm comprised one hundred and sixty acres.
Subsequently he traded that for property in Crown Point and took up his
abode in the city. For three years he served as deputy sheriff. He has,
however, been largely engaged in dealing in farm machinery and live stock,
but is now living a retired life, for through his perseverance and energy he
accumulated a handsome competence that now supplies him with all of the
necessities and many of the comforts and luxuries of life.
In August, 1857, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Fancher and Miss Mary
Hawkins, who was born in New York and died in Lake county, Indiana, in 1895.
They were the parents of four children, the eldest of whom died in infancy.
The others are William; Mary, the wife of E. H. Crowell; and Grace, at home.
Mr. Fancher is a Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for
Fremont and afterward supported Lincoln in 1860 and again in 1864. He has
never wavered in his allegiance to the party, but has always voted for its
presidential candidates and has put forth every effort in his power to
promote its growth and secure its success. For thirty-five years he has been
a member of the Masonic fraternity, and has been identified with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows for about the same length of time. For half
a century he has lived in Lake county, spending much of the time in Crown
Point, and his life record is thus closely identified with the history of
this portion of the state. He has watched the development of the county as
it has emerged from pioneer conditions and has advanced toward its present
progress and prosperity. His mind bears the impress of the early historic
annals of northwestern Indiana, and what to many others are matters of
record are to him affairs of intimate knowledge if not of personal
experience.
Many years ago he established the important business, with its adjuncts, of
putting down wells; an occupation still carried on by his son; and although
nominally retired from business life, being now seventy years of age, he may
be found quite regularly in their office on Main street, looking after the
interests of their business. The wells which they put down are known as
tubular walls. They go down to various depths. Furnishing windmills and
pumps is one of the adjuncts of this business.
Mr. Fancher is a believer in Christianity, a friend to Sunday schools and
churches, and became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church many years
ago.
The fuller genealogic record, which in such a work as this it is desirable
to preserve, is the following:
1. Thaddeus Fancher was born in
England in 1777. He was by trade a harness-maker. When a young man he came
to the United States and settled in Connecticut. He there married Sally
Mead, "a daughter of General Mead of Revolutionary fame." There were of this
family twelve children.
2. Thaddeus S. Fancher was
born in Ulster county, New York (to which state his father had removed in
1808), April 8, 1809. His father was a soldier in the American army in the
war of 1812, and in 1815 visited the then new and truly wild region of Huron
county, Ohio, to which state he removed with his family in November and
December of 1820, when Thaddeus S. was eleven years of age. The Fancher
family therefore were true pioneers of Huron county, Ohio, knowing well the
experiences of a frontier life. Thaddeus S. Fancher was married to Annie M.
Chapman, September 8, 1833. In 1894 they were "the oldest married couple in
Huron county."
3. Reuben Fancher, the oldest of twelve children, of whom the foregoing
sketch has been written, it thus appears, is a descendant of soldiers of the
war of the Revolution and the war of 1812, and of resolute and successful
pioneers of the state of Ohio.
[Source: "Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of Lake County, Indiana
from 1834-1904"]
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