. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . ucation, which hecompleted at the Norristown Academy, and inthe spring of 1850 left his native county to es- WAYNE COUNTY. 4sr> . tablisk a home for himself in the then wild sec-tion of Wayne County, Pa. He purchasedseven hundred acres of land of his father-in-law, Jacob Wager, in the northern part of Da-maacus township, where there was scarcely atree cut or a clearing made, erected a smallhouse, built a mill and entered upon the life ofa lumberman, conveying the products of hisindustry on rafts to Philadelphia, which he hascontin
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . ucation, which hecompleted at the Norristown Academy, and inthe spring of 1850 left his native county to es- WAYNE COUNTY. 4sr> . tablisk a home for himself in the then wild sec-tion of Wayne County, Pa. He purchasedseven hundred acres of land of his father-in-law, Jacob Wager, in the northern part of Da-maacus township, where there was scarcely atree cut or a clearing made, erected a smallhouse, built a mill and entered upon the life ofa lumberman, conveying the products of hisindustry on rafts to Philadelphia, which he hascontinued to do ever since. tial men of his section, and is held in gen-eral respect. He is a Democrat in politics andhas held the offices of school director and super-visor a number of years. He married, in 1853, Mary C, daughter of Ja-cob Wrager, of Damascus township, and has hadten children, of whom seven areliving, namely,—Lvdia (wife of John J. Canfield, of Damascus),Hannah (wife of James Rowan, of Manchester),George C, Jane, Addison, Joseph and <£e4). vW^cX^vvW Twice his mill was burned, but he rebuilt,the present one in 1883, one of the first steamsaw-mills in that section of Wayne County andcapable of cutting twelve thousand feet of tim-ber a day. He also operates a grist-mill at thesame point. In October, 1870, while engaged athis work, he met with a serious accident, and wascompelled to have one of his arms is one of the most industrious of the manylumbermen of Damascus township, and hascleared up a large tract of valuable land. He isrecognized as one of the successful and influen- JOHN BURCHER. Of all the old families of Damascus township,.Wayne County, Pa., none is more numerouslyrepresented or more highly respected than theBurcher family. John Burcher, to whom thissketch is inscribed, was born at Westminster,London, England, September 27, 1803. Hisgrandfather, John Burcher, after whom he wasnamed, worked at the trade of a carpenter inEngland
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