Bureau County IL Archives Biographies.....Bauer, John H.
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Biography for John H Bauer, Bureau County, Illinois

John H. Bauer, Clarion, was born June 3, 1818, in Au, Kronan, Bavaria, 
Germany.  His parents, Henry and Catharina (Bauer) Bauer, died in 
Germany.  They were the parents of the following children; George, 
deceased; John H., our subject; John, deceased; Thomas Bauer, of New 
York City; Mrs Julia Fisher, of Bavaria, and Margaretha Bauer.  John H. 
Bauer, our subject, came to this country in August 1847.  He worked 
fourteen months for Squire Dayton, and two years for William Lewis, and 
then moved on to his farm of eighty acres, which he entered in 1848.  At 
present he has 340 acres, the result of hard work and economy, as he 
came here a poor man, and gradually worked his way to his present 
prosperity.  Mr. Bauer was married here in December, 1850, to Kunigunda 
Miller, who was born in March, 26, in Au, Bavaria.  She is the mother of 
nine children; Thomas, George, Mrs. Susan Keen, Mrs Katie Rapp, Mary, 
Barbara, Lucy, Rosa, and Philip, who died in infancy.  Of the above Lucy 
Bauer is one of Bureau County's wide-awake teachers.  Mr. and Mrs. Bauer 
are members of the German Emanuel Evangelical Church. Politically he is 
connected with the Republican party.

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