BAUM BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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BAUM, Henry - b: 1853 Wurtemberg, Germany
source: 1919 History of Henry Co MO, Uel W. Lamkin, Historical Publishing Co - 
page: 356
residence: Clinton, Clinton Twp

Henry Baum, a well known hardware merchant of Clinton, Missouri, has been 
identified with the business development of Henry County for many years. He was 
born in Wittenberg, Germany, April 10, 1853, and is a son of Patrick and Mary Ann 
(Walter) Baum, and was the fifth child in the order of birth in a family of six 
boys. The father died in his native land when Henry was about three years old and 
in 1859 the mother and her six boys, Henry then being about six years of age, 
came to America and on Christmas Day, 1859, the family landed at New Orleans, 
Louisiana. They then came up the Mississippi River as far as Cairo, Illinois, by 
boat, and on January 1, 1860, reached St. Louis by rail. They then went to 
Lebanon, Illinois, where the boys grew to manhood and the mother spent the 
remainder of her life there. Of this family Henry, the subject of this sketch, is 
the only one living. Mr. Baum was educated in the public schools at Lebanon, 
Illinois, and in 1870, when he was seventeen years of age, he went to St. Louis to 
make his own way in the world. Here he learned the tinner's trade and worked at 
his trade in St. Louis about seven and one-half years. He then worked as a 
journeyman tinner in different places, including Kansas City. October 1, 1884, he 
came to Clinton and entered the employ of the Hasler Hardware Company, having 
charge of their tinshop for eighteen years and seven months. On June 19, 1902, he 
engaged in business for himself in Clinton. At first he engaged in the tinning 
business and gradually added a stock of hardware which he increased from time 
to time until today he has one of the most complete stocks of hardware to be 
found in Henry County, and is one of the leading hardware merchants of this 
section. Mr. Baum has but one rule in business and that is to give a square deal to 
everybody, which accounts for the rapid growth and development of his humble 
beginning sixteen years ago to a business of the present magnitude of Henry 
Baum's Hardware Store at Clinton. Mr. Baum employs five men in the store and tin 
shop. January 19, 1879, Henry Baum was united in marriage with Miss Melora 
Eleanora Bergmann, a native of St. Louis. She was reared in that city and received 
her education under the training of the nuns in St. Peter and Paul's Parish. To Mr. 
and Mrs. Baum were born three children, as follow: Catherine Eleanora, a graduate 
of the Clinton High School, the Missouri State University, and is now a teacher in 
the Clinton High School; Emil Henry, a sheet iron worker, Chicago, Illinois; and 
Edgar Walter, with his father at Clinton. Mrs. Baum departed this life March 30, 
1918. She was a woman of noble character and led an exemplary Christian life, 
and no small part of her husband's success is due to the wisdom of her counsel 
and her sympathetic co-operation. She was a devout member of the Catholic 
Church and Mr. Baum and his children are communicants of the same 
denomination. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of 
Clinton and has been identified with that lodge for a number of years.

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