Christ Bader Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 343-344

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CHRIST BADER. Prominent among the successful and enterprising farmers 
of Kellogg township, Beadle county, South Dakota, is the subject of 
this biographical sketch, whose home is situated on section 14, and who 
is considered one of the most industrious and worthy citizens of his 
part of the county. A native of Germany, he was born in Wurtemberg, 
February 6, 1858, and is a son of Gottlieb and Christiana (Heyler) 
Bader, also agriculturists. 

Mr. Bader remained at home until twenty-two years of age, when he 
crossed the broad Atlantic and took up his residence in Marshall 
county, Iowa, where he found employment as a farm hand for two years. 
In the fall of 1 882 he came to Beadle county, South Dakota, and made a 
location on the southwest quarter of section 14, Kellogg township, as a 
homestead. Returning to Iowa, he remained there during the winter, and 
the following spring settled upon his land. He has the distinction of 
being the first settler in Kellogg township. He received the title to 
his homestead in 1885, and took a pre-emption on the southeast quarter 
of section 15, the same township, while in 1894 he bought the southwest 
quarter of the same section. 

In the spring of 1895 Mr. Bader married Miss Annie Horn, who was born 
in Germany, March 7, 1869, a daughter of Frederick and Bertha Horn, who 
are now residents of Vernon township, Beadle county. Two children have 
been born of this union: Gustaf and Ella. 

Before his marriage Mr. Bader rented his farm and visited his old 
homestead in Germany for a time. Returning to this country, he spent 
considerable time at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago, in 1893, and 
made an extended trip through the south, visiting Texas and Mexico, but 
was content to come back to South Dakota, where he expects to live and 
die. He is one of the most successful men of his township, and is 
engaged in mixed farming and stock raising. In political sentiment he 
is a pronounced Democrat, and has been honored with a number of 
township and school offices, being at present chairman of the school 
board and assessor of his township. Religiously, he and his wife are 
German Lutherans, and socially he is an Odd Fellow.