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Obituaries

5 May 1903 - BAUMGARTNER - John F. Baumgartner, eldest son of Roxanna M. and the late Jame A. Baumgartner, aged 51 years. Funeral Wednesday morning at 8:30 o'clock from his sister's residence, Mrs. Ewing, 3736 Windsor Place, thence to St. Alphonsus' (Rock) Church. Interment private.

Death Certificates

From Secretary of State Missouri Death Archives Database

Name	Date of Death	County	City	Cert No.
Charles L. Baumgartner	January 06, 1915	St. Louis City	St. Louis City	2607

Secondary References

Baumgartner, James A., was born July 25, 1811 in Frederick County. Maryland, near the Monocacy River, son of Jacob and Maggie (Kuntz) Baumgartner. The family to which he belongs settled originally in Pennsylvania. and his grandfather emigrated from, Berks County of that State, to Maryland, where he married Magdalena Craft. One of the sons born of this union was John Baumgartner, who became a noted mathematician, and it was at the private school taught by this gentleman, who was his uncle, that James A. Banmgartner obtained his early education. Later he attended the public schools of his native State and was ambitious to enter Mount St. Mary’s College to study theology and prepare himself for the ministry, but was pre vented from doing so by circumstances which he could not control. In 1830 his father removed from Maryland to Mount Joy Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, where he settled with his family on a farm. The son worked on this farm until he attained his majority and had learned the blacksmith’s trade, but when he became of age he abandoned that trade and went to Gettysburg, where he engaged with a party surveying for the extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and later he went to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Reaching then the conclusion that better opportunities for advancement awaited him in the West, he came to St. Louis, arriving here on the steanmr “Waupella,” April 8, 1839. Here he first worked a few months as a clerk in a general store, and then engaged in a general merchandising business, with George M. Moore as his partner. He also engaged to some extent in the real estate business, and in 1849 bought, in company with Francis J. Baumgartner, a tract of land on St. Charles Rock Road. on which they built what became knowt as the “Three-Mile House.” There they kept a general store until 1866, building up a large trade from small beginnings. In 1866 Mr. Baumgartner became identified with the insurance interests of St. Louis, entering at that time the employ of the Missouri State Mutual Fire insurance Company. For nearly thirty years thereafter he was connected with this corporation, becoming well known to those engaged in this field of enterprise and also in general business circles. For fifty-three years he lived at his early home on Sixteenth street, and there all his children and grandclildren were horn. He has enjoyed, during his long life, the esteem of all his fellow—citizens, and at different times has held official positions, the duties of which he faith—fully discharged. For sixteen years he was a deputy harbor master of St. Louis, and during the Civil War he was deputy United States marshal one term, under Julius Detchmendy. In politics he was a Whig in early life, but since that party passed out of existence he has affiliated .with the Democratic party. His re- ligious afliliations are with the Roman Catholic Church. October 5, 1844, he married Miss Roxanna Matilda Elder, daughter of lesse and Eliza (Black) Elder. of St. Louis. Mrs. Banmgartners grandfather immigrated to this country from England. and came of a distinguished and noble family. She is second cousin to Archbishop Elder, the noted Catholic prelate, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Of seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Baumgartner, four were living in 1898. Their only daughter. Mary Ellen Baaumgartner. married S. H. Ewing. of St. Louis. Their grand-children are May Cecilia Ewitig. Lilly Agnes Ewing, Harry J. Ewing, and Marie Matilda Ewing. The sons are John Francis Baumgartner, Charles L. Baumgartner, and William Henry Baumgartner. Helen Robbins. a niece of Mrs. Baumgartner, reared and educated by her. is now the wife of J. Banks Wadleigh. assistant freight agent of the "Cotton Belt" Railroad, at Dallas, Texas.