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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 636]

    JACOB KIRCHER, a prominent farmer of Rock Township, was born in
    Germany, March 7, 1837, and is a son of NICHOLAS and MARY (STYER)
    KIRCHER.  The father served in the French police under Napoleon.
    When our subject was thirteen years of age he emigrated to America,
    and spent the first year in Buffalo, New York; thence he went to
    Milwaukee, and remained there until 1864.  When there was a call
    for more men to go to the defense of the old flag, he took up arms
    in behalf of his newly adopted land, and enlisted in October, 1864,
    in the First Wisconsin Battery, under command of General GRANT.
    After the close of the war he returned to his home, and remained
    there until 1874, when he removed to Cherokee County.  He bought
    a farm of 200 acres in Rock Township, where he still resides.  Mr.
    KIRCHER was united in marriage in 1860, to Miss MARY MONDAY, a
    daughter of JACOB and MARY (LAUTER) MONDAY.

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