Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Baum, George January 20, 1828 - 
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Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

George BAUM, clothier, Morris, was born in Germany January 20, 1828; son of 
George BAUM, who was born and raised in Germany, and also died here. Subject 
emigrated to the United States in 1853, landing in New York City on the 16th 
of of August. He was educated in the common schools of Germany, and when 
twenty-one years of age was put into the regular army, by a law of that 
country, which compelled all able-bodied young men, to serve six years. Our 
subject, by good deportment while in the service, was enabled to procure a 
recommendation from the principal officers over him, which have him an 
honorable release two years prior to the expiration of the time for which he 
had enlisted. From the date of this landing in the United States in 1853 to 
1856, he occupied his time principally in laboring as a farm hand in the 
States of Connecticut and New Jersey, having had but a meager supply of means 
when he landed. After reaching Morris on the 4th of April, 1856, he began as 
before in laboring at any kind of work that presented itself, by which he 
could earn fair wages, and continued in this way some seven or eight years. He 
and his brother, Henry then began the clothing business on his own 
responsibility, and at present is thus engaged, and doing a satisfactory 
business. He has been an Alderman in Morris for seven years, and has been 
Director for several years for the Cemetery Association. Mr. BAUM was married, 
in Germany, in June 1853, just before starting for this country, to Elizabeth 
KEISER. They have raised three children to maturity and lost two sons, one 
dying in infancy and the other in his thirteenth year. Those living are one 
son, Henry, and two daughters, viz., Eliza (wife of John SCHROBER) and Annie. 
Mr. BAUM and wife are members of the Lutheran Church, and he is a member of 
the I. O. O. F. Mr. BAUM owns a handsome and commodious two-story brick 
residence in Morris, good store-room, a tenement house, and some vacant lots; 
he is a Democrat.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

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