Born in Rathsweiler, in the district of Kusel in the Pfalz (southwest Germany). Is thought to have immigrated from Bremen to New York City on the S.S. Eider, arriving 25 May 1884. Married Marie/Mary Louise/Elizabeth Grub, a native of Ulmet, Germany, in Syracuse on 25 May 1886, Pastor Johann Schaefer of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Syracuse officiating. They had three children: Arthur L., Lynda A. L., and Charles F. Gilcher. In Syracuse Jacob worked first as a shoemaker, then in later years as a barber, with his residence and shop at 1004 Butternut Street on the German north side of Syracuse.
Jacob Gilcher
Funeral to be
Held on Friday
Jacob Gilcher, 66, a resident of Syracuse for 42 years and a North Side barber, who died last night at St. Josephs Hospital following an operation, will be buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
The body was removed to the home, 1004 Butternut Street, by A. C. Schumacher, undertaker. Funeral services will be conducted there at 2:15 o'clock Friday afternoon and 15 minutes later in Mount Tabor Church by the Rev. W. L. Scheding.
Mr. Gilcher was affiliated with Freie Bruder Lodge, Deutche Oder Harugari, Wallahala Manie, 29, the German Pioneers and the Brotherhood of Mount Tabor Church. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Gilcher, two sons, Arthur E. [sic; L.] and Charles J. [sic; F.] Gilcher; a daughter, Miss Lydia [sic] A. L. Gilcher; two brothers, Charles Gilcher of Syracuse, and Peter Gilcher of Germany, and a gradson [sic], Edward Gilcher.
[The Syracuse Herald, Wednesday evening, February 3, 1926, page 6]
Buried 5 February 1926.
Jacob Gilcher
Funeral to be
Held on Friday
Jacob Gilcher, 66, a resident of Syracuse for 42 years and a North Side barber, who died last night at St. Josephs Hospital following an operation, will be buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
The body was removed to the home, 1004 Butternut Street, by A. C. Schumacher, undertaker. Funeral services will be conducted there at 2:15 o'clock Friday afternoon and 15 minutes later in Mount Tabor Church by the Rev. W. L. Scheding.
Mr. Gilcher was affiliated with Freie Bruder Lodge, Deutche Oder Harugari, Wallahala Manie, 29, the German Pioneers and the Brotherhood of Mount Tabor Church. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Gilcher, two sons, Arthur E. [sic; L.] and Charles J. [sic; F.] Gilcher; a daughter, Miss Lydia [sic] A. L. Gilcher; two brothers, Charles Gilcher of Syracuse, and Peter Gilcher of Germany, and a gradson [sic], Edward Gilcher.
[The Syracuse Herald, Wednesday evening, February 3, 1926, page 6]
Buried 5 February 1926.
Born in Rathsweiler, in the district of Kusel in the Pfalz (southwest Germany). Is thought to have immigrated from Bremen to New York City on the S.S. Eider, arriving 25 May 1884. Married Marie/Mary Louise/Elizabeth Grub, a native of Ulmet, Germany, in Syracuse on 25 May 1886, Pastor Johann Schaefer of St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Syracuse officiating. They had three children: Arthur L., Lynda A. L., and Charles F. Gilcher. In Syracuse Jacob worked first as a shoemaker, then in later years as a barber, with his residence and shop at 1004 Butternut Street on the German north side of Syracuse.
Jacob Gilcher
Funeral to be
Held on Friday
Jacob Gilcher, 66, a resident of Syracuse for 42 years and a North Side barber, who died last night at St. Josephs Hospital following an operation, will be buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
The body was removed to the home, 1004 Butternut Street, by A. C. Schumacher, undertaker. Funeral services will be conducted there at 2:15 o'clock Friday afternoon and 15 minutes later in Mount Tabor Church by the Rev. W. L. Scheding.
Mr. Gilcher was affiliated with Freie Bruder Lodge, Deutche Oder Harugari, Wallahala Manie, 29, the German Pioneers and the Brotherhood of Mount Tabor Church. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Gilcher, two sons, Arthur E. [sic; L.] and Charles J. [sic; F.] Gilcher; a daughter, Miss Lydia [sic] A. L. Gilcher; two brothers, Charles Gilcher of Syracuse, and Peter Gilcher of Germany, and a gradson [sic], Edward Gilcher.
[The Syracuse Herald, Wednesday evening, February 3, 1926, page 6]
Buried 5 February 1926.
Jacob Gilcher
Funeral to be
Held on Friday
Jacob Gilcher, 66, a resident of Syracuse for 42 years and a North Side barber, who died last night at St. Josephs Hospital following an operation, will be buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
The body was removed to the home, 1004 Butternut Street, by A. C. Schumacher, undertaker. Funeral services will be conducted there at 2:15 o'clock Friday afternoon and 15 minutes later in Mount Tabor Church by the Rev. W. L. Scheding.
Mr. Gilcher was affiliated with Freie Bruder Lodge, Deutche Oder Harugari, Wallahala Manie, 29, the German Pioneers and the Brotherhood of Mount Tabor Church. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Gilcher, two sons, Arthur E. [sic; L.] and Charles J. [sic; F.] Gilcher; a daughter, Miss Lydia [sic] A. L. Gilcher; two brothers, Charles Gilcher of Syracuse, and Peter Gilcher of Germany, and a gradson [sic], Edward Gilcher.
[The Syracuse Herald, Wednesday evening, February 3, 1926, page 6]
Buried 5 February 1926.
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