Family of John Frederick BAUER
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OHN FREDERICK BAUER (FREDERICK) was born on 4 Nov 1879 in Wurttemberg, GERMANY, and died on 28 Sep 1944 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. He married (1) EMMA SCHMIDLIN on 23 May 1908 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, daughter of ALBERT SCHMIDLIN and ANNA GASSER. She was born on 28 Dec 1874 in Grellingen, Bern, SWITZERLAND, and died on 30 Jun 1934 in San Francisco, San Francisco, California. He married (2) MARIE E. ? about 1937 in San Francisco, California. She was born before 1910.John was a meat-cutter all his adult life. He may have arrived in the US about 1899 or 1900, and is believed to have settled first in the Bakersfield area of Kern Co. where his sisters lived. He is thought to have lived in Fresno prior to 1906. There is a San Francisco city directory entry for a John Bauer on Treat Ave. in 1905. The earliest confirmable entry is in 1907, where he is listed as a butcher. In his early years in San Francisco, 1910-1912, he was half of the Bauer & Giesecke partnership meat shop. The shop was on 17th and he and Emma lived on 18th at least thru 1918.
Emma came to the US as a young woman, lived in Michigan for years before coming to California. Arrived in the US a short (?) time before her sister Bertha. On a train trip across the US with her sister, they passed thru Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where the sisters looked in vain for the bunnies when they thought the conductor said "See der rabbits". She travelled frequently back and forth to Europe, sometimes on the liner Lusitania, and brought back gilt-edged plates and other souvenirs. She was in Europe during the April 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. She had a "boyfriend" on the Lusitania, a gentleman who was quite taken with her and who was another frequent traveller who was a gem trader.
