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GEORGE ROCK, a native of Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, removed to Paducah, Ky., in 1858. Mr. Rock was born in 1835, and is the second of three children born to John and Barbara Rock. His father died in the old country, in 1848, and the following year his mother, with the three children, Elizabeth, George and John, immigrated to the United States and located in the city of Cleveland, Ohio, where all, except the subject of this sketch, now live. In that city Mr. Rock served three years as an apprentice to the trade of shoemaking, to which he has since devoted his life with marked success. Until 1857 he labored as a journeyman in Louisville, Ky. He then opened a shop in the village of Lafayette, Christian County, where he remained until his removal to Paducah. As an honorable business man Mr. Rock has few superiors. From being the proprietor of a small custom shop, he has gradually developed into one of the wealthiest men in the business circles of Paducah. He does an extensive business, both wholesale and retail, and has a manufacturing department of no small magnitude and located at Nos. 210 and 212 Broadway. Mr. Rock is also a member of the Paducah Furniture Manufacturing Company, and has been a director of the German American National Bank since the organization of that institution. He is a member of the German Evangelical Church, Masonic order and Knights of Honor. He was married in Louisville, Ky., in 1856, to Miss Catherine Seigel, which union has been blessed with eight children.