Tuscola-Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Blocher, Daniel N. 1834 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

DANIEL N. BLOCHER is a farmer on section 16, Millington Township, Tuscola
County, and is moreover one of the strong men, financially, of this township. He
is the son of Mathias Blocher, a native of Pennsylvania. In 1828 he settled in
Erie County and there spent the remainder of his life. He was a manufacturer of
clothing and was very successful as a business man. He was married in his native
State to Miss Susannah Fox, also a native of the Quaker State. To them were born
three sons and ten daughters. Mr. Blocher was a member of the State Militia. His
wife died in New York in 1843 and he was later married to Margaret Lied.

  Daniel N. Blocher was born April 2, 1834 in Erie County, N. Y. and at the age
of fourteen years worked out by the month as a farm laborer. At the age of
seventeen years he came to Michigan and was engaged in farm work by the month in
Genesee County. He finally came to Tuscola County and purchased forty acres of
land. He now owns sixty acres in Tuscola and eighty acres in Rich Township,
Lapeer County. His land was all new when he first came here, but he has improved
it and put upon it a good class of buildings.

  In 1880 Mr. Blocher became engaged in the drug trade and was in business in
Millington for eight years. He owns a large amount of timber land in Alabama and
he owns a drug store building in this place. Mr. Blocher is a member of the
Pioneer Association of the county. He remembers distinctly when there were
plenty of deer there and other wild game in the country, and when the conditions
of life generally were very different from what they are at the present time.

  Our subject was married in Genesee County, this State, to Miss Sarah Lane, a
native of New York. They became the parents of three children, whose names are
Clarence, Charles and Eva. Mrs. Sarah Blocher died in Millington in 1870, and
our subject was again married to Miss Melvina Wolfe. Socially Mr. Blocher
belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and for twenty years has been so
connected. He is a member of the lodge at Millington. Politically a Republican,
he has always taken an active part in politics and has ever been a prominent and
helpful man in the community. For three years he has been Superintendent of the
Poor in Tuscola and has been Supervisor of the township two years also. He has
been Township Clerk for five years and Justice of the Peace for twenty years.

  The paternal grandsire of our subject was a native of Lancaster County, Pa.,
where he owned and operated a farm, although he was a cabinet maker by trade. He
went to New York in an early day and there died. He was the father of twelve
children, all of whom lived to years of maturity and none of whom died under
thirty-seven years of age. Only one, however, is living at the present time.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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