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Author: John Outcalt (1925)

RUDOLPH HENRY BAMBAUER

   Numbered among the successful farmers of Merced County is Rudolph Henry
Bambauer, who located on his present home place of fifty-seven acres in 1896.
This farm he developed to alfalfa, fruit and walnuts, also improved it with a
comfortable residence and other necessary farm buildings, and for many years he
has conducted a dairy with increasing profits each year. He was born in
Columbia, Tuolumne County, Cal., December 16, 1859, a son of Charles and Adaline
Bambauer, the former a native of Baden and the latter of Bavaria, Germany.
Charles Bambauer came around the Horn to California in 1849 and engaged in
mining in Tuolumne County; he married into a family who were pioneers of the
Golden State and by this union there were eight children; Carrie, now the wife
of C. A. Mills, of Berkeley; Rudolph Henry, the subject of this sketch; George
S., deceased; Charles D., of Santa Clara County; Louise, Frank, and Edward are
deceased; and Louis of Pacific Grove. The father spent a few years in teaming
from Stockton to the mountains; then removed to Paradise district of Stanislaus
County, where he farmed. He next removed to Calaveras County and again engaged
in freighting, and in 1871 the family came to Merced County, where the father
took up a quarter-section of land in the Charleston district on the West Side
south of Los Banos. The father removed to the Cottonwood district of the county,
where he passed away at the age of sixty-three years; the mother lived to be
seventy-seven years old.

   Rudolph Henry Bambauer attended the Altaville district school in Tuolumne
County, walking four miles to school each day during the school term; at the age
of eleven years he began working on farms earning his own living. In San
Francisco he learned the butcher trade, which he followed for a year and a half
with Miller & Lux. He then came to Merced and learned the blacksmith trade,
which he followed for about eight years. He settled on the West Side and dry
farmed for about twelve years, having 2280 acres in grain each season. He also
worked on the first canal in 1877.

   On October 18, 1896, Mr. Bambauer was married to Miss Ella Stahlman, a native
of Indiana, and by this union five children have been born; Fred, deceased;
Fulton R., associated with his father; Marvel E.; Adaline E.; and R. H. Jr. Mr.
Bambauer generally prefers the principles of the Democratic party. He has served
as an officer in Orestimba Lodge of Odd Fellows, but transferred to Romero Lodge
at Gustine. He is also a member of the Encampment and with his wife belongs to
the Rebekahs of Gustine. For about fourteen years Mr. Bambauer has served as
deputy registration clerk in Merced County.


Additional Comments:
From:

HISTORY OF
MERCED COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
WITH A
Biographical Review
OF
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY
JOHN OUTCALT

ILLUSTRATED COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1925


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