Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Bauer, John C. 1837 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

JOHN C. BAUER

HOME-MAKING has been the sentiment that has peopled the plains of Kansas and
settled its towns and cities, and to this one sentiment is due the present
prosperous condition of a great state. It has been fostered by a generous
government and state; assisted by the great railway and the press, and today is
the ruling passion in the breast of every true house-holder. It fired the
ambition of the early pioneer and sustained his frail arm and weak body until he
performed herculean feats in taming an unwilling soil until it gave up its
treasures in blossoms and grain. The first has made the land worth living in and
the last sustained life and provided a heritage for coming generations. It was
this sentiment that induced Mr. and Mrs. John C. Bauer, three and one-half miles
northeast of Pawnee Rock, to come to Barton County, Kansas, endure the
privations of the pioneer days and hold steadfastly to this one sentiment when
there appeared no hope of accomplishing their cherished dream. But pluck and
energy prevailed and today they own one of the neatest homes in the entire
county, and a half section of its best land.

  John C. Bauer was born on November 16, 1837, in the Province of Bavaria,
Germany, and in 1847 came to America with his parents, who remained in New York
City for nine months and-then permanently settled at Cincinnati, Ohio. He was
educated in the public schools of that city, and learned the trade of
boilermaker, and followed that trade, in some of the largest works of that city
until January, 1878, when he came to Barton County. He at first bought eighty
acres of railroad land and entered a timber claim of eighty acres; and then in
1885 bought an additional quarter section. On this he has built a neat cottage
with six rooms; a good barn, granary and other outbuildings; planted trees and
put the whole in the highest possible state of cultivation.

  John C. Bauer was married on October 22, 1860, to Miss Margaret Bauer of
Cincinnati, O., and they have four living children: John G. Bauer, Radium,
Kansas; Mrs. Anna Shafer, Sterling, Kansas; Mrs. Lena Hartman, Morrel, Ohio and
Robert L. Bauer of Pawnee Rock township.



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