Biographical Sketches

JOE D. FILCHER

JOE D. FILCHER has been a Montana resident for thirty years or more, grew up in this state, and has a varied experience in commercial and public affairs at Boulder, and is serving as the present postmaster of that city.

Mr. Filcher was born at Santa Rosa, California, November 7, 1878.  His father, John T. Filcher, was born at Staffordshire, England, in 1838, was brought to this country by his parents in 1842.  The family lived for several years in Ohio and later moved to Marysville, California.  John T. Filcher received his education in those two states; was married at Marysville, and became a silk maker by trade.  He moved to Santa Rosa in 1875, continued in his business there, and in 1880 settled in Montana.  He died at Boulder in 1906.

Joe D. Filcher attended school at Butte one year, at Comet in Jefferson County two years, and graduated from the Boulder High School in 1896.  Later he took a special course in bookkeeping at the Butte Business College, from which he was graduated in 1900.  Mr. Filcher's working experience covers nearly a quarter of a century.  For three years he worked around the mines in Butte, for two years was a bookkeeper at Avon for the Birdseye Mercantile Company, was clerk with the Boulder Mercantile Company at Boulder four years, and during 1910 was appointed and served as deputy sheriff under Sheriff A. V. Gibson.  He then resumed his work with the Boulder Mercantile Company, remaining with that establishment until 1918.  For over a year Mr. Filcher was deputy sheriff under the present sheriff, T. L. Locker, but resigned in September, 1919, to accept the appointment as postmaster at Boulder, and is now giving all his time to the efficient administration of the local postoffice.  He also served as alderman of the second ward, and resigned that office to become postmaster.

Mr. Filcher is a republican.  He is a member of the Boulder School Board, owns a modern home in that city, and is considered one of the community's most substantial and public spirited residents.

In 1908, at Butte, he married Miss Jessie Taylor.  Her father, J. K. Taylor, is an honored old time resident of Boulder and Montana.

Source: Excerpts from the book, Montana: It's Story and Biography, volume III, edited by Tom Stout, published in 1921; located on the website, Hathitrust Digital Library (http://www.hathitrust.org), accessed 4 June 2022.

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