Stanislaus Baur

BAUR, BUSH, MCBRIDE, STAFFUER, WEISS, WITHROW

Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 12/29/2009 at 10:35:26

A Memorial and Biographical Record of Iowa
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1896

S. Baur, residing on Section 35, Jefferson township, Madison county, Iowa, is a very prosperous German farmer, well known throughout the county and universally esteemed. He has been a resident here for more than forty-one years, during which time the county has grown from a wilderness, and his county is now regarded as one of the best in the State of Iowa. He is a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, born November 13, 1823, and is a son of Leopold and Caroline (Weiss) Baur, both of whom were natives of the same country. They were the parents of eight children, three sons and five daughters, all of whom grew to maturity.

The subject of this sketch is the second born and oldest son in the family. He grew to manhood inhis native country and received a university education. He came to America in 1843, a single man, stopping the first summer in New York and New Jersey, going thence to New Orleans, In the fall of 1844 he worked in the Pensacola navy yard. In 1847 he went to Ottawa, Illinois, where he worked for a time on the Illinois canal. From Ottawa he went to St. Louis, and from there to Cincinnati, where he worked at his trade of stone cutter, which he learned in the old country.
Returning to New Orleans he took passage in a vessel for the old country.

In 1848 he returned to America, bringing with him his father and two sisters. He first located in Lenawee county, Michigan, where he purchased land, his sisters keeping house for him. On this farm he remained until 1851, when he again returned to the old country and disposed of his father’s property. He remained there, however, until 1853, and in March of that year was united in marriage with Miss Bush, also a native of Germany, born November 5, 1831. She was the oldest of eight children born to George and Frances Bush.

Soon after his marriage the young couple set sail for the United States and in due time reached the farm of our subject in Michigan. They remained in that State but for a short time, and then went to Chicago, where Mr. Baur worked at his trade until March, 1854. They then went to St. Louis and up the Missouri river to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he bought a yoke of oxen and a wagon and drove across the country to Council Bluffs, Iowa and from there took an eastern course to Madison county, Iowa and soon located on the farm where he now resides. He entered Government lands, which he commenced to improve by the erection of a log cabin into which they moved and there lived four years.

In 1859 he built another log house that was a little better than the first one, having a shingled roof. In 1874 he built his present residence, a brick structure 28x30, two stories in height, with an addition 24x23, also two stories in height. The house has eleven rooms, with a good cellar under the main part. To Mr. and Mrs. Baur seven children have been born, of whom three are living: George, who married Florence Stauffer, of Jackson township, Madison county; Caroline, now the wife of Robert Withrow, of Madison county; Robert, who married Hettis B. McBride, and now resides on section 26, Jefferson township.

Since coming to this country Mr. Bower has been very successful in a financial point of view. He now owns 400 acres of as fine land as can be found in Madison county, and has given each of his two sons a farm of eighty acres. In politics he is a Cleveland Democrat.

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