BIO: George 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.

413  BOROUGH OF MECHANICSBURG.

  GEORGE HAUCK, county commissioner, member of the firm of Hauck & 
Comstock, machinists, etc., Mechanicsburg, is a representative of one 
of the old families of Cumberland County, born on the old homestead of 
his father and grandfather, in Meadow Valley,

414  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

Lancaster Co., Penn., July 6, 1823.  His parents, George and Hannah 
(Senseman) Hauck, were born in Meadow Valley, Penn.  His father, who 
was a farmer, was a son of George Hauck, who came from Germany and 
settled in Meadow Valley, Lancaster Co., Penn., in 1760.  He was a 
shoe-maker by trade, but followed farming.  George Hauck was the fifth 
child and third son in a family of nine children, six of whom attained 
maturity.  Our subject was but two years old when he came with his 
parents to Silver Spring Township, settling on a farm four miles 
northwest of Mechanicsburg, where George remained, attending school 
winters until he was seventeen years of age, when he began to learn 
wagon-making at New Kingston, this county.  In 1843 he came to 
Mechanicsburg and finished his trade in the coach-making establishment 
of his brothers, and in 1845 bought a half interest in the business.  
His brother Adam dying in 1855, George Hauck bought out his interest, 
and later he and his brother Samuel bought out the half interest that 
their deceased brother owned in what is now the Hauck & Comstock 
foundry.  In 1860 George Hauck sold out his coach-making establishment 
and that same year he and his brothers bought out the partner's 
(Jeremiah Senseman's) interest and ran under the firm name of S. & G. 
Hauck until 1880, when they sold a half interest to George S. Comstock, 
the business then being under the firm name of Hauck & Comstock.  Mr. 
George Hauck has always been an active business man.  He was elected 
county commissioner of Cumberland County in November, 1884; in 
September, 1885, he was elected director of the Allen and East 
Pennsborough Fire Insurance Company, and treasurer in October, 1885.  
Mr. Hauck has been director of the First National Bank since 1863, and 
has served as president and director of the Mechanicsburg Gas and Water 
Company since 1856.  He is a self-made man, having learned early in 
life to depend upon his own resources, and stands high in the 
estimation of all as an honest citizen and gentleman.  Although a 
commissioner of the county he is not a politician.  Mr. Hauck is a 
Universalist in belief; his wife is a member of the Lutheran Church.  
They have ten children, four living:  Sarah E. (wife of John A. Eberly, 
a land agent residing at McPherson, Kas.); David A. (married to Miss 
Mary Singiser, who died in 1884), is a foreman in the machine shops of 
Hauck & Comstock; Abner J. (married to Miss Anna Henry) is car 
accountant in the car department of the New York, Philadelphia & 
Norfolk Railway at Cape Charles, Va.; Susan A. (wife of John A. 
Keesberry, chief clerk, car accountant's office of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad at Philadelphia).  The Hauck family is of German descent.