Rev. Jonas Franklin Bucher Jr ^{2 3 4}

   Another name for Jonas was Frank Bucher.

   FamilySearch ID: 966X-2S6.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Occupation: minister. Rev. Jonas Franklin Bucher, a German Reformed minister, served as a missionary in China, where some of his children were born.

2. He has conflicting birth information of Abt 1876 and Chillisquaque, Northumberland, PA, United States. ³

3. Census in 1880 in Milton, Northumberland, PA. ⁵ In the North Ward of Milton, Jonas F. Bucher, blacksmith, age 46, was living with wife Adeline, 38; Lizzie, 14; Mary, 12; Clara, 10; John N., 8; Jennie M., 5; and Jonas F., 2. They and their parents were born in Pennsylvania.

4. Newspaper: Miltonian, 11 May 1906, Milton, Northumberland, PA. ⁶ On Wednesday last Misses Lizzie and Mary Bucher went to Lancaster to witness the graduation of their brother, Frank, at the Franklin & Marshal Theogical Seminary. They were accompanied by Mrs. William Anspach and Mrs. Hull Knauer, also of St. John's Reformed Church, this place. The young man who takes order has always been a close and worthy student, and has provided for himself an eight year mission to China and he has the good wishes not only of the local congregation but of the church at large, as well as the people of the town.

5. Newspaper: The Daily News, 16 May 1906, Mount Carmel, Northumberland, PA. ⁷ Bucher Going to China
Rev. J. Frank Bucher, of Milton, is under appointment by the foreign mission board of the Reformed church to go to China next August to engage in the educational work of the denomination in that country.

6. Newspaper: Miltonian, 25 May 1906, Milton, Northumberland, PA. ⁸ Miss Olive Miller will be married in July to Mr. J. Frank Bucher, of MIlton, who will go to China as a missionary. Shamokin will thus have another tie with the Orient, Rev. Fischer's daughter, Mrs. Kane, being at present there, and REv. C. B. Schneder's brother being a missionary to Japan -- Shamokin "Dispatch".

7. Newspaper: Sunbury American, 20 Jul 1906, Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ¹ SHAMOKIN WEDDING The culmination of a pretty romance was reached at Shamokin on Thursday when Miss Olive May Miller and Rev. J. Frank Bucher, of Milton, were married, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Martha Miller. Rev O. B. Schneider, of St. John's Reformed church, officiated. After a short visit to Milton the newly married couple will leave for. San Fran01500, from where they will sail for China, where Mr.
Bucher has been appointed a missionary of the Reformed church.
Miss Miller is a daughter of the late Francis Miller and is a graduate of the Shamobin High school. Rev. Bucher was recently graduated from the Reformed Theological Seminary, at Lancaster. Several years ago, while the local pastor was on his vacation, Rev. Bucher served as pastor at Shamokin, and it was at this time that he met and fell in love with Miss Miller.

8. Newspaper: Intelligencer Journal, 10 May 1941, Lancaster, Lancaster, PA. ⁹ (photo of Rev. Bucher)
REV. JONAS FRANKLIN BUCHER
F. & M. WILL CONFER HONORARY DEGREES ON 8 MEN JUNE 4
MINISTERS TO BE CITED Franklin and Marshall college will confer eight honorary degrees at the 154th annual Commencement exercises June 4.
MINISTERS TO BE CITED
Four ministers of the Reformed and Evangelical church will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity: The Rev.
Jonas Franklin Bucher, missionary to China and now living in this city; the Rev. Ralph Ellis Hartman, minister of Grace Church Frederick, Maryland; the Rev. Paul Tobias Stonesifer, minister of Zion church at Chambersburg, Pa.; and the Rev. Ralph Stanley Weiler, minister of Grace church at Jeannette, Pa. The degrees will be conferred by Dr. H. M. J. Klein, professor of history and acting president of the college since the death of President John A. Schaeffer.

9. Newspaper: Intelligencer Journal, 27 Sep 1941, Lancaster, Lancaster, PA. ¹⁰ MISSIONARY
(photo of Rev. Bucher)
REV. JONAS FRANKLIN BUCHER, a missionary home on furlough from China, who will speak at the Sunday evening service in Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church, Hellers.

Jonas married Olive May Miller, daughter of Francis Adam Miller and Martha Jane Adams, on 12 Jul 1906 in Shamokin, Northumberland, PA.¹ (Olive May Miller was born on 9 Mar 1883 in Shamokin, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, United States of America,^{11 12} died on 25 Jan 1986 in Coopersburg, Lehigh, PA ^{11 12} and was buried in Lancaster: Greenwood Cemetery, Lancaster, PA ¹².)