GAS LIGHT FUEL ILLUMINATION PIONEER INVENTOR CAPITALIST HAUK LETTER SIGNED 1890

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CHARLES D. HAUK (1848 – 19__) PROMINENT 19th CENTURY GAS LIGHT ILLUMINATION PIONEER, INVENTOR, and BUSINESSMAN, INVENTOR OF A NEW and USEFUL IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ILLUMINATING-GAS IN 1895, and OTHER INVENTIONS, INCLUDING A STOP-VALVE, PRESIDENT and GENERAL MANAGER OF THE NATIONAL GAS LIGHT and FUEL CO. 1880-90s, OWNER OF A NUMBER OF OTHER GAS LIGHT/FUEL COMPANIES IN PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK and CHICAGO, and TOLEDO, OHIO, CHARTER MEMBER OF THE “OHIO SOCIETY OF CHICAGO” ORGANIZED IN 1890 – A SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF FORMER RESIDENTS OF OHIO LIVING IN CHICAGO – LOBBYING FOR THE WORLD’S FAIR TO BE HELD IN OHIO, TRUSTEE OF WESLEY HOSPITAL LOCATED ON E. OHIO ST., CHICAGO, and DIRECTOR and SECRETARY OF MAST, FOOS & Co, MANUFACTURERS OF WIND ENGINES, and AGRICLULTURAL IMPLEMENTS IN THE 1880s. HERE'S A LETTER SIGNED BY HAUK ON “NATIONL GAS LIGHT and FUEL COMPANY, BUILDERS OF FUEL & ILLUMINATING WATER GAS WORKS UNDER THE SPRINGER SYSTEM” LETTERHEADS, 1p., DATED AT CHICAGO,