Bio: Parcher, Robert E. (1881) 
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Surnames: Parcher, Single, Taylor, Fernald

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 565

ROBERT E. PARCHER. Wausau, came to Wisconsin in the Spring of 1858, and lived in Plover until the next October, when he came to Wausau. He was employed as a clerk for Taylor & Ellis for one year and a half. Ellis retired about six months after Mr. Parcher entered the store. Mr. Parcher succeeded Thomas Taylor in the business, and continued till August, 1880, being alone until 1875. In July, 1876, George E. Fernald became a partner. Mr. Parcher has been interested in lumbering ever since he came to Wausau; he is now in the lumber and real estate business. For five years was president of the Boom Company. He was one of the founders of the Wausau Lumber Company; now engaged in shingle manufactory on Thorp River, ten miles above Wausau. The mill has a capacity of 50,000,000 shingles per year. The average number of men employed is eighteen. Mr. Parcher is one of the directors of the Timber Belt Railroad Company. He was born in Troy, Vt., Dec. 6, 1837, and reared in Morrisville, Lamoille Co., Vt., living in Stowe, Vt., about one year before coming to Wisconsin. He was one of the Village Board and City Assessor one year. He was married in Wausau, June 12, 1865, to Mary H. Single, who was born in Wisconsin.