Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Bock, Rev. George J. June 13, 1872 - 
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Source: Twentieth Century History of Altoona and Blair County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold, 1911
Author: Jesse C. Sell

REV. GEORGE J. BOCK, who has been pastor of St. Michael's German Catholic
Church of Hollidaysburg, Pa., since August 1901, was born June 13, 1872, at
Pittsburg, Pa., and is a son of George and Mary Magdalene (Fleckenstein)
Bock. He spent his boyhood in Pittsburg, where he attended the schools of St.
Martin's Church until thirteen years of age, and then entered St. Fidelis
College, at Herman Station, Butler County, Pa., where he continued his
studies for five years. He then became a student at St. Mary's Seminary at
Baltimore, and five years later received all of the offices but that of
Priesthood. In 1896 he was ordained at St. Vincent, served as assistant at
St. George's Church of Pittsburg until December, 1900, when he was appointed
assistant of St. Mary's Church of Altoona, Pa. He acted as assistant there
until August, 1901, when he was appointed pastor of St. Michael's German
Catholic Church of Hollidaysburg, Pa., and has had charge of this parish
continuously since that time. This church was built in 1862 and has a
membership of one hundred families.

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