"Portrait & Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley Oregon."  Chapman 
Publishing Company, 1903. p. 590.
 
E. E. GOUCHER, M.D.

     is the pioneer physician and surgeon of McMinnville, having located here in
1883.  No professional name in Yamhill county carries with it greater weight, or
suggests more conscientious application of the highest tenets of medical and
surgical Science. A son of the country bordering on the western sea, Dr. Goucher
was born near Healdsburg, Sonoma county, Cal., March 12, 1858, and from a very
successful physician sire received his first inspiration towards his life
calling.
     Of fine Old Dominion stock, G. W., the father of E. E. Goucher, was born in
Virginia, and practiced medicine for many years in the south. Reports of golden
fortunes on the coast led him to temporarily abandon his profession in 1849 in
favor of prospecting and mining in California, to which state he journeyed via
Panama, and where he experienced the success of the average rather than the
exceptional miner. Fortified with a calling for which there is invariable
demand, he lived at times in Alameda, Santa Clara, and Sonoma counties, and in
1864 identified his fortunes with Yamhill county, Ore., where he combined
practice and ministerial labors in the Methodist Episcopal Church south for some
years. Eventually he located in Amity, where a successful practice was
interrupted by his death in 1893.  He was a stanch member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church south, as was also his wife, Delilah Ann (Morrison) Goucher,
who was born in Indiana, and came to California with her brothers at an early
day. Of the five children born to these parents but two are living, the pioneer
physician of McMinnville being the second oldest child in the family, and Mrs.
Norah Springer.
     At a very early age Dr. Goucher became interested in his father's
profession, and from this reliable source received his first practical
instruction. Primarily his education was received in the public schools of
California and Yamhill county, and he eventually entered Willamette University,
from which he was duly graduated from the medical department in 1882. After a
year's practice in Yamhill county he located in McMinnville, as heretofore
stated, and aside from a general practice of medicine has identified himself
with horticulture, owning one of the very fine and productive fruit farms of the
county. Since its establishment he has been a member of the pension board. of
Yamhill county. Fraternally the doctor is associated with the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, of which he is past noble grand; the Encampment of McMinnville;
the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, of Salem ; and the Odd Fellows
lodge of McMinnville. The family of Dr. Goucher consists of his wife, Hattie M.
(Sherman) Goucher, a native of Minnesota, and two children, Rua and Norma.


     
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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2008 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.