Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888,
Jefferson Co.

GEORGE B. BAHR, descendant of one of the substantial German citizens who
add so largely to the wealth and prosperity of Louisville, was born April
20, 1840, and is a son of John W. and Mary (Kraft) Bahr, natives of
Germany, and who came to this country about the year 1838.  He was born
and reared in this city.  When the war broke out he went into the
Confederate army as captain under Gen. Hardy.  After his return to the
city he engaged in the hardware business, having commenced to learn the
hardware business and bell-hanging trade when but fourteen years of age.
He started his present store in 1864, and carries on an extensive wholesale
and retail business.  For the past fifteen years he has had a partner, Mr.
Adam Zimmerman.  They have about twenty men on the road and in the house.
He was married in 1862 to Miss Josephine Frecking, of Louisville.  She died
in 1872, and he married Miss Amelia Schlicker, of Louisville, but whose
parents came from France.  He had born to him one child by his first
marriage, Lulu, and four by his second: George William, Emile Edward, Daisy
and an infant.

Bahr Kraft Zimmerman Frecking Schlicker
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Germany France

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