BAUDER, Samuel C.

BAUDER, CRAIG, MOWERS, CLUTE, ABLE, BOWER, RUSSELL

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Date: 1/19/2003 at 20:53:32

SAMUEL C. BAUDER. 

For many years Samuel C. Bauder was actively identified with the agricultural and commercial interests of this county but is now living a retired life in Low Moor. Accomplishment and progress ever imply labor, energy and diligence, and it was these qualities which enabled our subject to rise from the ranks of the many and stand among the successful few.

Mr. Bauder was born in Montgomery county, New York, May 25, 1834, a son of Louis and Matilda Jane (Craig) Bauder. His maternal grandfather was Samuel Craig, a native of Scotland, who on coming to America first settled in New Jersey, where he married a lady of that state, and later removed to Montgomery county, New York. The paternal grandfather of our subject was John Bauder, who was one of three brothers that came to this country from Germany or Holland, and settled in Mohawk valley, becoming early settlers of Montgomery county. Louise Bauder was born on the same farm where our subject’s birth occurred, and spent his entire life on the old homestead in Roop township. He was a successful and substantial farmer and was a man highly respected and esteemed by all who knew him. His wife is still living at the advanced age of eighty-nine years, and continues to reside on the old home place.

The subject of this review is the oldest of a family of seven children, four sons and three daughters, all of whom are still living. He spent the days of his boyhood and youth upon his father’s farm, his time being devoted to study in the common schools and to agricultural pursuits. At the age of twenty years he was united in marriage with Miss Catherine Mowers, who died two years later, and on October 8, 1856, he wedded Miss Mary Ellen Clute, a native of Glen township, Montgomery county, New York, born April 21, 1835, a daughter of John and Mary (Able) Clute. Her father by occupation was a farmer.

For five years Mr. Bauder was engaged in farming in Glen township, and in Roop township the same length of time. He made a trip to Iowa in 1853, passing through both Clinton and Scott counties, but did not determine to make his home here until 1865, when he removed to Clinton county, arriving her on the 24th of February, that year. Two days later he purchased a farm of one hundred and eighty acres in Eden township, to the further improvement and cultivation of which he at once turned his attention. Subsequently he bought a tract of seventy-five acres and another of one hundred and twenty acres, but he has since sold the former, but still has a valuable place of three hundred acres five miles southwest of Low Moor, which he operated about sixteen years. Renting the farm in 1881, he removed to Low Moor, and bought residence property, which he has since greatly improved. For nearly twenty years he was engaged in buying and shipping grain, and also dealt in agricultural implements, doing a successful business along these lines. Besides his farm in Eden township, he now owns four dwellings in Low Moor and thirty-four acres of land within the corporate limits of the town, and one thousand acres of good farming land in Lake county, South Dakota. As a business man, Mr. Bauder was enterprising, energetic and thoroughly reliable, and to these characteristics may be attributed his wonderful success, for he started out in life with very little capital save industry and a determination to succeed.

Mr. and Mrs. Bauder are the parents of six children, four sons and two daughters, namely: Sidney, a farmer living near Hastings, Adams county, Nebraska; John C., a farmer of Harrison county, Iowa; Wesley J., a farmer of Low Moor; Mary Jane, wife of William Bower, a railroad engineer of Chadron, Nebraska; and May, wife of Friend Russell, a farmer of Folletts, Iowa, and one son who died in infancy. All are married and have families. One granddaughter, Mary A. Bauder, a daughter of Wesley J. by his first marriage, has made her home with our subject since infancy.

Politically Mr. Bauder is a Jeffersonian Democrat and cast his first presidential vote for James Buchanan, but at local elections votes independent of party lines, supporting the men whom he believes best qualified for office. He has filled the offices of township trustee and justice of the peace, and was school treasurer in Eden township for eleven consecutive years as well as a member of the school board. His public duties have always been faithfully and capably discharged, and as a public-spirited man he was instrumental in getting the town of Low Moor incorporated. He was formerly a member of the Masonic fraternity, having taken the Master’s degrees in that order at Camanche in 1876.
Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.