F. J. BAUMGARDNER

BAUMGARDNER, WARDER

Posted By: Tamara Jorstad (email)
Date: 9/15/2002 at 21:29:40

Published in the 1969 McCallsburg Centennial booklet:

F.J. Baumgardner Family

Frederick J. Baumgardner was born in Canton Berne, Switzerland, on June 15, 1849. He came to this country with his parents in 1852 at the age of three. They lived in Illinois for some time. Afterwards the family moved to Wapello County, Iowa, where they remained for a number of years. On October 12, 1871, at the age of twenty-two, he was married to Lizzie Warder.

They moved to Story County, Iowa on a farm south west of McCallsburg. They had seven children and only one is living, Roy Baumgardner.