Dr. William Henry Bucher ^{1 2 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: LR3P-537.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Census in 1880 in Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ²

2. Newspaper: Mount Carmel Ledger, 13 Oct 1893. W.B. FAUST, Esq., accompanied his nephew, W.H. BUCHER, of Sunbury, to Philadelphia on Oct 7, 1893, where Mr. BUCHER was matriculated as a student in the Medical Surgical College.

3. Occupation: Doctor at Boston Naval Hospital in 1908 in Boston, Suffolk, MA. ⁴

4. Occupation: Doctor with Red Cross in Russia in 1919 in , , , Russia. ⁴

5. Occupation: physician and surgeon on 18 Apr 1919 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. ⁵

6. Residence: on 18 Apr 1919 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. ⁵

7. Dr. Bucher traveled to China, Japan, and Siberia on behalf of the American Red Cross on 18 Apr 1919 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. ⁵

8. Occupation: Doctor at Olive View Tuberculosis Sanitarium in 1921 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. ⁴

9. Newspaper: The Daily Item, 16 Apr 1921, Sunbury, Northumberland, PA. ⁶ DR. W. H. BUCHER HERE FOR FATHER'S FUNERAL
Dr. Will H. Bucher, brother of John B. Bucher of 912 South Front street, and a Sunbury native, has gone to Philadelphia, after having come to of his father, John Bucher, this place, Thursday for the funeral.
Dr. Bucher is a widely traveled man, having visited practically every country in the world, and not many months ago returned from Siberia, where he was in the Red Cross service. He has been spending much of his time in Kingman, Arizona, and is delighted with the climate and surroundings of that state.

10. Residence: 14122 Hubbart St., San Fernando, CA on 30 Dec 1934 in San Fernando, Los Angeles, CA. ⁴

11. Obituary: Los Angeles Times on 31 Dec 1934 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. ⁴ DR. BUCHER'S LIFE CLOSES: Fighter Against Tuberculosis, Superintendent of Olive View Sanatorium, Dies From Pneumonia
Dr. William Henry Bucher, superintendent of the Olive View Sanatorium for tubercular patients, died at his home, 14122 Hubbard Street in San Fernando, of pneumonia last night. His death ended a quarter-century struggle against tuberculosis, which has left permanent, brilliant results in a number of places in the country.
Serving his patients, he once contracted the malady himself, recovering.
SUFFERS STROKE
Although the immediate cause of his death last night was pneumonia, a contributing cause was a stroke last August, which had enforced his retirement from active duty. He would have been 64 years of age tomorrow, having been born January 1, 1871, in Sunbury, Pa. He obtained his medical degree in 1896 at a small Pennsylvania college, which is now part of the University of Pennsylvania. His brilliant promise began fulfillment during the Spanish-American War when he served as physician and surgeon aboard a man-of-war.
COMES BACK HOME
After three years in the Philippines and a period in Korea, he came back to the United States to devote himself to the curing of tuberculosis. In 1908 he was at the Boston Naval Hospital, where his brilliant record received quick recognition. He was chosen to establish the government sanatorium for sailors at Fort Baird, where, in 1910, he contracted tuberculosis. When the World War came, he was again ready for government service, holding the rank of lieutenant commander at the San Diego Naval Hospital.
WORK IN RUSSIA
In 1919, he went with a party of Red Cross workers to relieve the misery in revolutionary Russia.
When he came to the Olive View Sanatorium in 1921, it had been established by the county a year before and had but ninety-five patients. Yesterday there were 960. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Skelton Bucher; two sons, William and John, and a sister in San Diego. Funeral services will be arranged today.

12. Occupation: Doctor at San Diego Naval Hospital in 1943 in San Diego, San Diego, CA. ⁴

William married Elizabeth Marie Skelton. (Elizabeth Marie Skelton was born on 25 Dec 1893 in Turtle Creek, Allegheny, PA, United States and died on 23 Jun 1998 in Oxnard, Ventura, CA, United States.)