BIOGRAPHIES:  Louis BAUER Sr., Lima Township, Pepin Co., WI

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Submitted by:  oldstufn@hotmail.com  on  11 May 2005
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Louis Bauer, Sr.,  for many years engaged in agricultural work in
Lima township, and until recently operating 300 acres of land, was
born in Austria, June 10, 1854.  His parents were Florian and
Elizabeth (Prissel) Bauer, both natives of Austria, who came to
America in 1872 and resided for a short time in New York State.  Form
there they came to Pepin county, locating on a farm in Lima township,
where Florian Bauer died  in 1892.  His wife survived him eight
years.  In Austria Mr. Bauer had been a caretaker over an estate, but
his life was spent in farming after coming to the  United States. 
Louis Bauer, Sr., was the second born in a family of three children. 
He attended school  in Austria, but had only 28 days schooling in
America.  About a year after coming to this country Mr. Bauer went to
work in a sawmill at Eau Galle, Wis., where he remained two years. 
He then took up farming in Lima township, Pepin county , having
purchased a farm of 120 acres here, which he cultivated until 1915. 
He then moved onto the farm he now owns, containing hogs, horses and
other stock, besides various crops, until he rented all but 80 acres
of the farm to his son Vinz, and in the summer of 1918 erected a new
residence in which he now lives.  The 80 acres which he retained his
still operating.  At one time Mr. Bauer was the owner of 840 acres. 
He is a stockholder in the Inter-County Telephone Company.  For a
number of years he served as township treasurer and was for a
considerable time treasurer of the school board.  He is a member of
the Roman Catholic church and in politics is independent.  Mr. Bauer
was married Sept. 13, 1877, to Thakla Rossler, who was born in
Austria, daughter of Michael and Mary (Frasl) Rossler. Her parents,
natives of that country, came to America in 1874 and located in Lima
township, this county, where Mr. Rossler was engaged in farming until
his death, Feb. 16, 1913.  In his native land he had been a
carpenter.  His wife is still living and resides with a son in this
township.  Of their ten children, Thakla was the eldest, and was
educated in Austria.  Mr. and Mrs. Bauer have had thirteen children,
three of whom are now deceased, the record being as follows: Michael,
a farmer of Lima township, who married Anna Youngmann;  Racey, who
married Florian Komro, and had two children, both she and her husband
being now deceased;  Mary, widow of John Youngmann, a farmer who
resided near Arkansaw, Pepin county;  Victoria, wife of John Komro, a
farmer of Albany township;  Hannah, wife of Michael Weber, a farmer
of Dunn county, living near Eau Galle;  Florian, who married Anna
Bechold, and is a farmer in Albany township; Phillip, deceased; 
Joseph, who married Mary Pichler, and lives on the old home farm; 
Louis, who married Dora Heddon, and is farming in Lima township, near
the Bauer homestead;  Vinz, who married Jennie Pichler, and lives on
the old homestead, which he has rented from his father;  Antoine,
deceased;  and Katherine and Martena, residing at home.

-Transcribed from the "History of Buffalo and Pepin Counties
Wisconsin, 1919", pages 637 - 638

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