My Genealogy Hound

CHRISTIAN ZOERCHER, president and foreman of the Cabinet Makers’ Union, was born in Bavaria September 5, 1832. He was reared at home on the farm, receiving a fair German education. In 1851 he came to the United States and learned the cabinet-makers’ trade, working in New York City and Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He afterward worked for a number of years at his trade, and in machine shops in Cincinnati. In 1868 he came to Tell City, and worked in various factories in town for two years. He then bought an interest in the Cabinet Makers’ Union, which he still owns. He is one of seven children born to the marriage of Henry Zoercher and Mary Bolander, natives of the same country as himself, where they passed their lives. May 25, 1859, he married Mary Christ, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, and to their union have been born eight children. Those now living are Catharine, Jacob, Henry, Phillip, Anno, Christina and Louis. Both he and wife are members of the Evangelical Church. He is also a member of the I. O. O. F., and in politics is a Democrat.