Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 599-600 [McCracken]

     J. ANDY BAUER, one of the successful business men of Paducah,
Kentucky, where he owns and operates the largest pottery plant in
that locality, was born in Jeffersonville, Clark county, Indiana,
November 11, 1856, and is a son of J. Andy and Julia (Slosser)
Bauer, both of whom were natives of Germany, where they were
married.  Prior to coming to America J. Andy Bauer was engaged in
farming, but after coming to this country in 1852 and settling in
Jeffersonville, Indiana, he followed the trade of a plasterer, in
which line he continued until a short time before his death.  At
that time the parents of our subject went to Louisville, Kentucky,
and soon after, in 1897, the mother died, and in 1899 the father
followed her.
     J. Andy Bauer obtained a fair education in the public schools
of Jeffersonville, and his first labor was in the Howard ship yards. 
For six years he continued to work as a laborer, but in 1875 went to
Louisville and engaged with his brother in a large pottery,
remaining there until 1886, when he located in Paducah, and
established a pottery on his own responsibility, purchasing a small
plant from Frank Parham.  Mr. Bauer has steadily increased his
facilities and appliances until he now owns the finest pottery in
western Kentucky, giving employment to seventy-five men and turning
out a high grade of work which meets with a ready sale all over the
country.  His fields of operation have so enlarged that several
traveling men are kept busy on the road, and Mr. Bauer himself
visits some of his customers.
     In 1884 Mr. Bauer was united in marriage with Emma Dargel, a
native of Louisville, and they became the parents of eight children,
three of whom are deceased.  In politics he is a Democrat, and has
served his party on the school board for six years to the entire
satisfaction of all parties concerned.  Fraternally Mr. Bauer is a
member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and has taken two
degrees in the Masonic lodge.  Mr. and Mrs. Bauer are consistent
members of the German Evangelical Lutheran church, in which body
they are highly esteemed.  Mr. Bauer is a genial, public spirited
man, and one who makes and retains many friends.  His is well and
favorably known throughout a wide territory, and the success which
has attended his efforts is well merited.

Bauer Slosser Parham Dargel
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Clark-IN Germany

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