 IOGRAPHIESLenawee County, Michigan |
Anthony Poucher was born in Claverack, Columbia County, New York on June 26th 1824. He lived there until 1844, when he came to Michigan and arrived in Adrian in October. He was then in his twentieth year and had come to Michigan to seek a home. He immediately found employment with Mr. Joseph C. Warner, driving a team. The following spring he commenced work for Byron Smith who then was engaged in the manufacture of the old-fashioned threshing machines. During the summer of 1846 he drove a sprinkling wagon in Adrian for A. Crittenden. In the spring of 1846 Anthony Poucher’s father Andrew Poucher came to Adrian and the following year he purchased six acres of ground on the corner of Scott and Maumee streets and a fractional forty just west of the present college buildings, and Anthony lived with his father and worked this land until the spring of 1854. Andrew Poucher is a native of Columbia County, New York and was born in Claverack in 1788. He has always been a farmer and an active enterprising man. Since he came to Michigan he has owned farms in Adrian, Madison and Seneca in Lenawee County and Chesterfield in Ohio where his home once burned. He rebuilt and soon after sold out and moved to Morenci. In the year 1810 he married Elizabeth Miller of Columbia County, New York by whom he had six sons: Anthony being the 5th. Elizabeth Poucher was born in Columbia County, New York on December 8, 1791and died in Morenci, Lenawee County, Michigan on January 21, 1878. In 1854 Anthony Poucher purchased a farm on section 27 in Adrian. At that time the improvements consisted of about six acres chopped over, with a log house and frame barn. Since then Mr. Poucher has improved the place until he has sixth acres in a high state of cultivation, has erected a good frame home besides additional barns and sheds. He has a large orchard of choice fruit of his own cultivation. He has worked out his own independence with the united efforts of his wife, by hard labor and careful economy. On November 14, 1849 Anthony Poucher married Margaret Clapper, daughter of John W. and Catharine Clapper of Palmyra, Lenawee County, Michigan, by whom he has had three children, as follows: George S. born in Adrian on December 23, 1850, a farmer of Fairfield; Irvin M., born in Madison, Lenawee County, on May 24, 1854, married Miss Addie Moore, was founder and proprietor of the Ionia Commercial College, Ionia, Michigan; and Elmer R., born in Madison on September 2, 1861 at home. Mrs. Margaret/Marguerette Poucher was born in Claverack, Columbia County, New York on June 24, 1826 and came to Michigan with her parents in 1844. Her parents were natives of Columbia County, New York, her father being born October 27, 1787 and died in Clinton County, Iowa on October 14, 1856. Her mother, whose maiden name was Catharine Best was born May 25, 1793 and died February 7, 1849. The ancestors of both the Poucher and Clapper families came from Germany.
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