BIOGRAPHY: George A. BAUER, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 243-4
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GEORGE A. BAUER, editor of the Johnstown Freie Presse, one of the leading German 
Democratic papers of Pennsylvania, is a son of Gottlob and Dorothea (Traut) 
Bauer, and was born June 30, 1863, at Eisfeld, in the dukedom of Saxe-Meiningen, 
now one of the twenty-six states of the German empire. His parents are natives, 
and have been life-long residents of Saxony, where they have witnessed many 
stirring events in the unification of Germany, and the growth of the present 
great German empire. Gottlob Bauer was born in 1816, and is a tailor by trade. 
His wife was born in 1832, and they are both consistent members of the 
Evangelical Lutheran church, in whose faith and teachings they were reared and 
have lived.
      George A. Bauer passed his boyhood days at his native place, where he 
received his early education in the citizens' schools then prevalent in Saxony, 
and all the other states of Germany. At fourteen years of age he left his native 
land and came to the United States, finding a situation in a printing office in 
Steubenville, Ohio, where he learned the "art preservation of all arts." After 
the close of his apprenticeship he worked in printing offices at various places 
until April, 1880, when he came to Johnstown and remained six months. He then 
went to Philadelphia, and after working in some of the principal printing 
offices of that city, made a trip through northern New Jersey, working in 
Trenton and Newark, and reached New York city, where he remained until 1886. In 
that year he returned to Philadelphia, and four years later, in November, 1890, 
came to Johnstown to assume charge of the Freie Presse, of which he has been 
editor and manager ever since. Mr. Bauer is unmarried. He is a member of 
Johnstown Lodge, No. 175, Order of Elke, and Barbarossa Castle, No. 85, Ancient 
Order of Knights of the Mystic Chain. He is a pleasant gentleman and a practical 
printer, and keeps up with the times in everything that regards newspaper work, 
from the sanctum to the composing room.
      The Johnstown Freie Presse is a German Democratic paper. It is a folio, 
twenty-seven by forty inches, and issued on Wednesday of each week. Under Mr. 
Bauer's management, the paper has attained a wide circulation. The Freie Presse 
is always bright and reliable. Every number is an epitome of all the interesting 
and important news of Johnstown and Cambria county, while foreign affairs and 
current events receive due mention, and the farm, garden and shop are not 
neglected. Mr. Bauer has made the paper unwaveringly Democratic in politics. He 
gives a candid and cordial support to the true principles of the Democratic 
party, as taught by Jefferson and enforced by Jackson. Prominently associated as 
he is with public affairs, Mr. Bauer is unobtrusive in demeanor, and has always 
aimed to be useful to the full extent of his opportunities.