. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . to the Twenty-second Congress from the district comprising Dau-phin and Lebanon. In 1839 he was appointed byGovernor Porter an associate judge of the county ofDauphin, which position he held for twelve frequently served as a member of the BoroughCouncil, and was a school director from the adoptionof the common-school system until the day of hisdeath. Few men have taken warmer and deeper in-terest in educational matters. He was also a trusteeof the Harrisburg Academy
. History of the counties of Dauphin and Lebanon : in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; biographical and genealogical . to the Twenty-second Congress from the district comprising Dau-phin and Lebanon. In 1839 he was appointed byGovernor Porter an associate judge of the county ofDauphin, which position he held for twelve frequently served as a member of the BoroughCouncil, and was a school director from the adoptionof the common-school system until the day of hisdeath. Few men have taken warmer and deeper in-terest in educational matters. He was also a trusteeof the Harrisburg Academy, of (then) Franklin Col-lege at Lancaster, and of Marshall College at Mer-cersburg, and of the Theological Seminary of theReformed Church. In the German Reformed Church,among the fathers of which his grandfather, theRev. John Conrad Bucher, of Lebanon, was a distin-guished minister, he was regarded as a devout andconspicuous man. He was well known in its ecclesi-astical councils, having been frequently a member ofClassis and Synod, where he took the lead among thelaymen in debate, and was treasurer of the Board of.
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