John G. Bauer

    John G. Bauer, of Lawrenceburgh, president and secretary of the Bauer Cooperage Company, was born in Cincinnati in 1856, and his parents are still residents of that city. His father is Jacob Bauer who is well known in business circles there but now retired. Mr. Bauer passes his early years in his native city in whose public schools he was educated, supplementing this by a course of study in the Cincinnati Business College. Up to 1882 he was engaged in the coopering business in Cincinnati, coming to Lawrenceburgh at the above date and since remaining in the establishment iwth which he is now connected, a sketch of which is given 3elsewhere in this volume.

     Mr. Bauer was married in 1881 to Anna DeBenath, a native of France and a daughter of August and Anna DeBenath, her mother now being a resident of Cincinnati. He is an energetic business man, of fine executive ability and alive to every interest of the enterprise under his supervision.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.