THEODORE H. SUCHER
NEW HAVEN: Merchant
Captain Theodore H. Sucher was born in New Haven February 26, 1859, and was educated in the public schools. He has pursued the avocation of a brass worker but is now a dealer in hats and gentlemen’s furnishing goods. He is the president of the International Brotherhood of Brassworkers, noble chief of the Knights of the Golden Eagle, and a member of the Knights of Labor. Captain Sucher is the senior line officer in the Second Regiment, Connecticut National Guard. His commission as the commanding officer of Company E, of the Second, dates from December 15, 1884. He has been in the National Guard service fourteen years. Captain Sucher has risen from the ranks. He enlisted as a private in Company E, May 7, 1877, and was made corporal May 1, 1879. He was discharged May 6, 1882, and re-enlisted the next day, retaining his rank as corporal. He was commissioned second lieutenant March 5, 1883, and first lieutenant March 4, 1884, retaining that position until December, when he received his captain’s commission. His company ranks among the first in the National Guard of the state. Captain Sucher is a member of the Lutheran church in New Haven and is a republican in politics. He has been a member of the court of common council in his native city and is a popular leader. He has a wife and two children. The former was Miss Hertha Hax before her marriage.
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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