Biography of George Hauk, page 529. History of De Kalb County, Indiana. Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885. George Hauk, retired farmer, was born in Dauphin County, Pa., Oct. 23, 1812, a son of Samuel and Catherine (Spraker) Hauk, natives of Pennsylvania, of German descent. His father died in Lebanon County, Pa., aged sixty years, and his mother in Stark County, Ohio, aged eighty-six years. When he was eighteen years of age he left his native State and went to Stark County, Ohio, where he learned the miller’s trade, serving an apprenticeship and worked at it ten years. He then bought a farm and followed agricultural pursuits in Stark County till the fall of 1853, when he came to De Kalb County and bought 160 acres of land in Jackson Township. He subsequently added to it from time to time, till he now owns a fine farm of 400 acres. In 1874 he retired from the care of his large farm relinquishing it to his children, and bought thirty-nine acres in Spencerville, where he and his wife are now enjoying the accumulations of their many years of toil. He was married June 27, 1838, to Mary Shilling, daughter of Adam and Mary (Roan) Shilling. To them have been born seven children---Mary A., wife of George Shutt, of Allen County; Hiram, of Allen County; Elizabeth, wife of William Shutt, of this township; Daniel married Rila Kiner and lives on the old homestead; Emeline J. Bell, wife of Nicholas Goldsmith, on the old homestead; Amelia Catherine, wife of Benjamin Hamilton, of this township. and Sarah Matilda, wife of Samuel Canard, of Allen County. Mr. and Mrs. Hauk are members of the Lutheran church. In politics he was originally a Whig, but now casts his suffrage with the Democratic party. Submitted by: Arlene Goodwin Auburn, Indiana Agoodwin@ctlnet.com