Ora Hauenstine, proprietor of the Standard Tire Repair Company, is one of the younger business generation who has won his way to a satisfying share of prosperity solely through the medium of his own ability and good management. He was born at Troy, where his present business is located, in 1891, one of the two sons of Rudolph and Laura Belle (Harrod) Hauenstine, his brother, Will, being also a resident of this city. Ora Hauenstine was given the advantages of a public school education, after which he secured employment with the McKinnon-Dash Company, at Troy. Upon leaving their service, he went to Detroit and took a position with the Morgan & Wright Tire Company, and while employed there secured practical experience for the planning and successful promotion of his personal business affairs. Returning to Troy in 1915, he established himself as the proprietor of a tire repair store, where he does a general vulcanizing business, and where he has met with well-merited success. Mr. Hauenstine has found little time from his business to devote to other matters, but is a popular member of the local lodge of Elks. He married Myrtle, daughter of William and Minerva (Mosberger) Gilbert, of Hesperia, Mich., whose other children were: Fred, Charles, Larkin, Jacob, Ida and Emma.