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Biography
of Harlow B. Mauck
Harlow B. Mauck is one of the old and honored business men
of Lawrence County, and has spent over a third of a century in
the town of Proctorville, where he owns the leading mercantile
business.
Mr. Mauck was born at Cheshire, Gallia County, Ohio, February
19, 1867, son of Lewis W. and Frances (Bradbery) Mauck and a
grandson of Daniel and Polly Mauck and of Asa and Electa
Bradbery. The Bradbery family came from Maine, while the
Maucks were from the Shendandoah Valley of Virginia. Mr.
Maucks's parents were both natives of Ohio and are now
deceased. His father was a Union soldier in the Civil war,
with the Ninety-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was married
after the war and for many years engaged in general
merchandising at Cheshire. He was a member of the Masonic
Order and the Baptist Church. The three children in the family
were Roscoe J., Earl W., and Harlow B.
Harlow B. Mauck grew up in Cheshire, attended the public
schools there, and later entered the Ohio Northern University
at Ada. He left school in 1886 at the age of nineteen, and
since then has been a resident of Proctorville, Lawrence
county. For ten and one-half years he worked as a clerk and in
other capacities in the Mauck & Winters Store, and then
engaged in business for himself. He has been a merchant there
for twenty-seven years, and the community has come to regard
him as the leading man of affairs. He is a Knight Templar
Mason and Shriner, and a member of the Baptist church, while
his wife is a Methodist.
In June, 1893, at Proctorville, Mr. Mauck married Miss May L.
Bay, daughter of Capt. George Washington and Mary (Suiter)
Bay. Her parents were Ohio people and now deceased. Her father
for many years was a captain of river boats. The three
children of Mr. and Mrs. Mauck are Francis, Kate and Minnie.
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