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Stanislaus Baur (1909)

BAUR, BAUER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 4/30/2010 at 13:25:47

Winterset Reporter
Thursday, December 16, 1909
Page 4

Jefferson Township

Mr. Bauer was buried last Saturday. He was one of the first settlers of Jefferson township. He was 86 years of age. Mrs. Bauer, who has been bedfast for the past nine weeks with a fractured hip, we are glad to say is now able to be up.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, December 16, 1909
Page 1, Column 4

ANOTHER PIONEER PASSES AWAY

Stanislaus Bauer, Old Resident of Jefferson Township, Died on Last Thursday

S. Bauer was born in Wurttemberg, November 13, 1823. His father, Leopold Bauer was a man of wealth and influence and the son was educated at one of the best universities in Germany.

He came to this country in 1843, and spent the first year in New York and New Jersey. In 1844 he went to New Orleans and from there he went to Pensacola, Florida, where he accepted a position in the navy yard. In 1847 he removed to Ottawa, Illinois and was employed in the construction of the Illinois canal. He was skilled in the art of stone-cutting and had also studied architecture, on leaving here, he located in St. Louis, where he followed his profession and afterward at Cincinnati.

The same year he went to New Orleans again and from there sailed to Germany. The following year he returned from Germany and brought with him his father and two sisters and settled in Michigan where he remained until 1851. In that year he returned to Germany to settle his father’s estate. While there he married and in 1853, returned to Michigan, but soon after removed to Chicago. In 1854, he went to St. Louis and then to St. Joseph, where he bought a yoke of oxen and wagon, and traveled overland to Council Bluffs, and from there to Jefferson township, this county. In 1859 he entered the land which until his death continued to be his home.

He had a family of seven children, all of whom are dead except two, George who lives in Jackson township and Robert, who lived in Jefferson township, and his aged wife also survives him.

He was in ill health for some time, but was confined to his bed but one week. He died last Thursday, Dec. 9th, and was buried on the Sunday following, Rev. Stilverson officiating.

Mr. Bauer was a man of more than ordinary intelligence and force of character and in his death the county loses one of its oldest residents, and a man who had the respect of all who knew him.

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