Dennis Bauman, son of John Dieter and Margaret (Newhard) Bauman, was born April 10, 1819, at Bowmanstown, then a part of Northampton county. He assisted his father at an early age, upon the farm, and received his educational equipment as then afforded by the common school and later attended for two successive winters a boarding school in Bucks County. He then mastered the art of a surveyor, making this vocation his principal occupation for nine years, being appointed also as deputy surveyor of Carbon County by Gov. Shunk. From 1849 he served six years a prothonotary and was then chosen as one of the associate judges of the county, serving for five years. About 1855 he became a member of the firm of Bauman Brothers Co., which established and operated an anthracite blast furnace at Parryville, Pa., in 1857, the Carbon Iron Co. was organized and incorporated. Mr. Bauman served as its president from 1857 to 1876, when the great financial panic forced the closing down of the industry, the Carbon Iron & Pipe Co., succeeding the property. After this time Mr. Bauman attended to this private interests. He became connected with the Carbon Metallic Paint Co., and the First National Bank of Lehighton, and was a director for upwards of twenty-five years and for a time its vice-president He was the first chief burgess of Parryville, when that town was created a borough, which position he held for several terms. He became a member of Mauch Chunk Lodge of I. O. O. F. in 1849. He has been an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a loyal Sunday school supporter since 1858, and has filled many offices of honor and trust in these organizations. He is a grand old man, and is now in his 96th year, living in retirement at Allentown.

Mr. Bauman married Mary, a daughter of Henry Kress, a farmer, who resided near Cherryville, Pa., They had five children, Namely; George; Elizabeth, marred to James B. Deshler Esq., of Allentown; James M.; Albert L.; and Robert H., who served as commissioner of Carbon County, and is now a retired citizen of Allentown.

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