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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 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 as 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.