George Bauer and Annie Catherine Smith

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Husband George Bauer ^{1 2}

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           Born: 11 Sep 1838 - near Hagerstown, Washington Co, MD 1 2
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         Father: Peter Bauer (1803-1867) 2 3
         Mother: Anna Margaret Deer (      -1888) 1

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       Marriage: 1863 1

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Wife Annie Catherine Smith ^{1 4}

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         Father: Michael Smith (      -      ) 1 4
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Children

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1 F Margaret Bauer ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: Howard McCandless (      -      ) 1

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2 M Charles Bauer ^{1 4}

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3 M Edward Bauer ^{1 4}

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4 F Augusta "Gussie" Bauer ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: C. A. Wachsmith (      -      ) 4

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5 F Maud Bauer ¹

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            AKA: Maude Bauer 4
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         Spouse: Samuel McKnight (      -      ) 1

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6 M William Bauer ^{1 4}

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7 F Barbara Bauer ^{1 4}

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8 M Leonard Bauer ^{1 4}

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General Notes: Husband - George Bauer

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He came to Jefferson township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, with his parents, was reared on the homestead farm, and received his education in the public schools. He learned the machinist's trade, and engaged in the manufacture of agricultural implements at Butler, under the firm name of Bauer Brothers, which the firm carried on for fifteen years. In 1872 he sold his interest and purchased a homestead of seventy-six acres in Butler township, on which he thereafter lived.
In 1862 he enlisted in Company K, One Hundred and Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and served nine months. He was in the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and was slightly wounded in the latter engagement.

In 1862, he enlisted for service in the Civil War, and served for nine months as a member of Company K, One Hundred Thirty-fourth Regiment, Penna. Volunteer Infantry. Although he was wounded in the right arm at the battle of Chancellorsville, he refused to go to the hospital and remained on the field until the close of the fight. In his political convictions he was a Democrat and he served in local offices, including that of school director and tax collector and supervisor.
Mr. Bauer blew the first steam whistle ever heard in Butler County at the Bauer Brothers Mill in Butler in 1865. A humorous incident happened in connection with the blowing of the first whistle. It was in the early morning, about daylight, and the residents of the quiet little village were not aware that such a thing existed in the town. A superstitious German resident was lighting his fire, when he heard the first blast of the whistle. He imagined that it was the sound of Gabriel's horn and seizing a bucket of water, he dashed it on his kitchen fire and immediately went to praying.
Mr. Bauer also had the misfortune to have the first boiler explosion in the county which happened at the mill during the same year. Fortunately no one was hurt in the disaster.

1 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 838.

2 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1166.

3 Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 838, 851.

4 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1167.