BIO: George W. Hauck, Cumberland County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania.
Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, 
Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and 
Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and 
Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc.  Illustrated.  Chicago: Warner, Beers 
& Co., 1886.
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                                PART II.

             HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA.

                             CHAPTER XXXIX. 

                        BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

414  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

  GEORGE W. HAUCK, dealer in stoves, tinware and hardware, 
Mechanicsburg, was born in Mechanicsburg, Penn., May 6, 1841, son of 
Adam and Susannah (Wonderly) Hauck.  Adam Hauck was an iron 
manufacturer and at one time a partner of Jeremiah Senseman, with whom 
he did business under the firm name of Senseman & Hauck, which 
afterward became S. & G. Hauck and is now Hauck & Comstock.  Adam and 
Susannah Hauck had four children.  George W., the second child and son, 
attended the common schools and Cumberland Valley Institute until he 
was nineteen.  He began to learn the tinner's trade at the age of 
fifteen, and from nineteen until twenty-six worked at his trade in 
Cincinnati (Ohio), Rochester, Wabash (Indiana), Harrisburg and other 
places.  In 1867 he formed a partnership with his uncle, F. Wonderly, 
and engaged in the stove and tinware business until 1869, when Mr. 
Hauck bought out Mr. Wonderly, and soon after formed a partnership with 
his brother S. F. Hauck, which continued until August, 1878, when he 
bought out his brother's interest and has since conducted the business 
alone.  He and his brother, S. F. Hauck, and J. K. Seifert and S. H. 
Coover organized the Huston Net Company, afterward purchasing Mr. 
Coover's interest, and the net industry is now owned and conducted 
solely by G. W. and S. F. Hauck, doing business under the name of 
Huston Net Company.  George W. Hauck, married, January 5, 1869, Miss 
Alice Starr, of Quaker descent, born in Lisburn, this county, daughter 
of Reuben T. and Elizabeth (Lloyd) Starr.  Mrs. Hauck is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church.  To this union have been born three 
children, two now living:  Walter L., born August 6, 1875, and E. 
Starr, born March 19, 1877.  Mr. Hauck has one of the finest and most 
modern houses in the county, on South Market Street, where he and his 
family reside.  He is one of the enterprising, responsible citizens and 
business men of Cumberland County.  His family is of German descent, 
his ancestors having settled in Pennsylvania in a very early day.  Mr. 
Hauck is a charter member of K. of P. Lodge and O. U. A. M., 
Mechanicsburg.