Identifier: commemorativebio1900jhbe (find matches)
Title: Commemorative biographical record of northeastern Pennsylvania: including the counties of Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike and Monroe, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, and many of the early settled families
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: J.H. Beers & Co
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Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ntaining twenty-four sleep-ing rooms and other apartments, including a beau-tiful dining-room at the rear of the house enclosedwith glass and commanding a pleasing view.There are two cottages on the premises, one offrame, with six rooms, and the other of brick, withtwelve rooms, and during the summer season theplace is so well patronized by appreciative guestsfrom the city that these cottages are kept constantlyoccupied bv those who cannot be accommodated inthe main building. Until a year previous to hisdeath, which occurred September 11, 1893, Mr.Fauchere had personal charge of the establishment,but it has since been conducted by his only daugh-ter. Mrs. Marie Tissot, a lady of marked executiveability and pleasing manners, under whose ad-ministration the house more than maintains its oldpopularity. Mr. Fauchere was a Democrat in po-litical sentiment. On November 16, 1846, Mr. Fauchere wasmarried in Switzerland to Rosalie Perrochet, daugh-ter of Francois H. Perrochet (a prominent dis-
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 733 tiller), and his wife Henriette (Rochat). Mrs.Fauchere, who was born July 2, 1823, now resideswith her daughter, who cares for her in her de-clining years. Mrs. Tissot was born May 4. (848,in Switzerland, and was married (first) to AlfredChoi, a noted comedian much older than herself,who died in Paris in 1875, while on a business trip.On November 6, 1886, she was married at Brook-lyn, X. Y.. to Henri Tissot, also a native of Switzer-land. She had four children by her first marriage:Louise, wife of Percy Lyman, of Orange, N. ).,who has two children, Annette and Percy, Jr.;Louis and Rose, who died in childhood; and War-ren, who now assists his mother in the hotel (hemarried Bessie Heller, and they have two children,Marie and Margaret). Hexki Tissot was born April 9, 1841, son ofCharles Edward and Adele (Nicolet) Tissot, na-tives of Switzerland. His father, who conductedan old watch-case factory, died in 1869, aged sev-enty years, and his mother die

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