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SOURCE: History of Genesee County, Michigan
        pub. Everts and Abbott - 1879

        Page 277-278


                           DANIEL COTCHER

  This gentleman was born in Bethlehem, Albany Co., N. Y., Oct. 10, 1833, 
his father, John Cotcher, having emigrated from England about 1820, and 
settled in that town, about two miles from the city of Albany. He owned a 
farm and managed it until 1846, when he removed to the township of West 
Bloomfield, Oakland Co., Mich., purchased a place, and lived upon it till 
his death, which occurred Jan. 13, 1873, when he was seventy-six years of 
age. His widow and one son, James Cotcher, still reside there. 

  Until 1848, Daniel Cotcher aided his father in his farm duties, but in 
that year he entered the store of 0. C. & R. B. Morris, at Pontiac, and 
remained there five years. The greater part of the two following years he
spent in the West. Nov. 5, 1855, he came to Flushing village and began work 
at his trade in the establishment of Charles Seymour, Mr. Cotcher doing the 
first tinner's work in the first tin-shop in the village. He subsequently 
purchased the tin-shop and hardware department, and conducted business for 
himself about eight years. In the spring of 1865 he entered into a business 
partnership with Franklin A. Niles, forming the firm of Niles & Cotcher, 
which has continued to do a successful business to the present time. Mr. 

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Cotcher has been continuously in trade in Flushing longer than any other 
merchant now residing in the village, and his mercantile life has not been 
marked with any of the disasters which many less careful managers have 
experienced. He has served a number of years as a member of the union school 
board, and was one of the first board of village trustees, elected in 1877. 

  Sept. 25, 1860, Mr. Cotcher was married to Mary M. Woodruff, a native of 
Pittefield, Mass., where she resided most of her life previous to her 
marriage. Her father, Amos M. Woodruff, settled in the township of Flushing 
about 1844, and died April 17, 1875, aged sixty-four years. Mrs. Cotcher is 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Flushing. Two children — a son 
and a daughter — have been born to this couple. The family is one of the most 
highly esteemed and respected of any living in the place. 

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