Walter Tuchscherer graduated from Gonzaga in University, Spokane, Washington in 1909. Due to his interest in the family brewery business, he graduated from the Hantke's Brewer's School in Milwaukee in 1915. Walter was fluent in German, and was deployed to the Siberian front in 1918 to serve as a translator for the United States intelligence division. Returning to Anaconda, Montana, in 1919, Walter found the family brewery closed due to Prohibition. Walter became a co-owner of Washoe Coal, with his brother-in-law, R. A. Kelly, and married Maybelle Malloy on June 9, 1921.
In 1925, the Tuchscherer family became the owners of the Standard Drug store. Walter again returned to school, this time to the Capitol School of Pharmacy in Denver, Colorado. Walter passed the state boards in 1930 to become a pharmacist. When Prohibition ended, Walter returned to working at the Anaconda Brewery. Walter worked at the brewery during the days, which left his wife, Maybelle, to run the drug store in the day, and at night Walter attended to his pharmacist career. The Anaconda Brewery closed in 1958, where Walter returned to working at the pharmacy full-time. Walter died in 1960.
From the guide to the Walter Tuchscherer Papers, 1905-1978, (Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections)
