This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lVG.2ACEB/19 Message Board Post: Oregon Republican League: Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 187. BUCHTEL, JOSEPH, recently Chief of the Portland Fire Department, was born in Uniontown, Ohio, November 22, 1830. He lived there and in Illinois until old enough to work for himself, beginning life as a maker of daguerreotypes. For a time he was Deputy Sheriff of Champaign County. He came to Portland I n1852. He followed steamboating for five years, and in 1857 established a photographic gallery in Portland, which he managed for many years. In 1865 and 1866 he was elected Chief of the Volunteer Fire Department. In 1880 he was elected Sheriff. In 1894 he was appointed Chief of the Paid Fire Department. He has invented a number of fire department appliances and other things. He has taken a continuously active part in Republican politics. -Tony Larson