E H Mauck

MAUCK

Posted By: Tna Keister
Date: 1/22/2006 at 12:44:03

E H Mauck, of the firm of mauck & Son, amnufactures of pottery, Boonesboro, was born in Harrison county, Indiana, April 30, 1832, and when ten years of age his parents removed to Mercer county, Illinois, one year afterward they went to Henry county, where our subject grew to manhood, his fahter was acompetent masona nd employed his son to assist him, when the latter was quite young, he followed that trade and farming in Illinois until 1865, when he came to this p;ace, where he now resides, after coming here he engaged in the mason trade exclusively, and has the reputation of being one of the best int eh county, in 1879, he entered into his present business, August 13, 1862, Mr Mauck enlisted in company G, One Hundred and Twelfth Illinois infantry, and served until June 18, 1863, when he wea mustered out for disability, he then returned to Illinois and having lost his health was unable to attend much to business for three years, he was united in marriage November 4, 1855, to Miss Susan H Stoddard, a native of Ohio but raised in Henry county, Illinois, they had three children: carrie (wife of E Wright), Charlie K, and Henry S

From the 1880 Boone County History Book