Meet Jacob R. Bader and Emma Emily Elsner Bader (with, I believe, their youngest son, Jean). They are the parents of Carl George Bader.I just love this photo! It's a postcard addressed to Miss Alma Bader, and signed "Mama," and since I have some other snapshots of Barbara's Grandmother Bader (Emma Bader) as a much older woman, I am sure this is her in this photo.
According to Barbara's notes, Emma Emily Elsner was the eldest of seven children born to Mary Elizabeth Unland and Ernest Elsner. They were married September 18, 1866, in Beardstown IL. Emma was born August 4, 1867, in Beardstown IL.
Jacob R. Bader was born July 24, 1864, in Hugsweier, Germany. He had three brothers and one sister (none of them named in my mom's notes). I seem to recall that family mythology said that J. R. Bader and/or his brothers made and lost several fortunes, but, sadly, lost more than they made.
Jacob and Emma married on May 25, 1887, in Arlington, Nebraska. Their six children were:
Carl George Bader (patriarch of our clan), born May 23, 1888, Nebraska City, NE.
Ernest Fredrick Bader, born Sept. 20, 1889, Nebraska City, NE.
Eleanor Olga Bader, born Nov 3, 1891, Fremont, NE.
Alma Christina Bader, born July 29, 1894, Fremont, NE.
Clara Barton Bader, born June 2, 1898, Fremont, NE.
Jean Richard Bader, born Dec 31, 1904, Fremont, NE.
On the back of the postcard, Emma writes, "Dear Alma, If I were not so sleepy, I would write you what we have to eat here. This air seems to make Jean and I sleepy. Mama."On the front, as you can see, she writes, "How do you like these, Papa thinks they are good." So I assume that's Papa—J. R. Bader—and youngest son, Jean, in the photo with her. Jean was born in 1904, and looks no more than about 10 years old (probably younger), so I date this photo around 1914, when Emma's dress and hat would be right in style.
"L.N. Pritchard, photographer, 437 Umatilla St, Grand Rapids, MICH" is printed on the back of the postcard, but I don't know if that means that's where this photo was taken. The setting looks like a photo booth at a fair or exposition, but I have no idea where or for what occasion.
Here's the youngest photo I've ever seen of Carl George Bader. On the back, it's dated 1908, in Steve's handwriting, so I suppose he was going through these photos once with Barbara, who suggested the date. That would put Carl around age 20, which seems about right. I think he looks a lot like Jim Bader (Carl Jr's son) in this photo.
And one more little piece of ephemera, found among Grandpa Bader (Carl)'s things. This is an old-fashioned calling card, saying that someone would be "At Home" to visitors at a certain time. Unfortunately, there is no name or date (year) to identify it; it might not have anything to do with our family at all. However, I found out that Frieburg im Breisgau is about 20-30 miles south of Hugsweier in Germany, near the French border, in the Black Forest. So if anyone ever wanted to do a really detailed Bader family origins search, this might be a good place to start.
Hi Lisa,
ReplyDeleteI did some digging and found some more information about Jacob R Bader in an ebook version of A History of Dodge and Washington County of Nebraska (Vol 11, 1921). It has a short biography of Jacob and his family, which follows:
"Jacob R. Bader, president of the J. R. Bader Furniture Company, of Fremont, has one of the most beautiful stores in Nebraska, and during the years he has been connected with this city he has always proven himself a man of probity, excellent business endowments and a factor in the moral uplift of his community. Mr. Bader was born in Hugsweier, Baden, Germany, on July 24, 1864, a son of Carl and Caroline (Lieb) Bader. Carl Bader was district treasurer for forty-five years, and both he and his wife were very pious, their main concern in life being the spiritual welfare of their children. Their efforts in this direction met with very gratifying results for three of their sons are successful preachers, one of them now being at the head of the house publishing all of the religious literature of his denomination. Another son served as a missionary to India, and a daughter married a missionary to India.
After attending the public schools of Germany, Jacob R. Bader came to the United States, and took a commercial course in the business
college at Nebraska City, Nebraska. He has no degrees. After two years' work on a Nebraska farm, Mr. Bader secured employment as a
bookkeeper in a brewery of Nebraska City, and later went into a furniture store of that same place as a clerk, holding that position from 1886 until 1890, and learning the business in all of its details.
In 1890 Mr. Bader came to Fremont and, after working for M. H. Hinman, bought the business in October, 1890, taking Ernest Eisner as a partner. Later the firm saw several changes, becoming in turn Bader & Anderson, Bader & Rogers Furniture Co., Bader Bros. Company, and finally the J. R. Bader Furniture Company, of which Mr. Bader is president and owner of sixty per cent of the stock. He is a member of the Fred Bader & Company, undertakers. His furniture business has increased its annual sales from $11,000 to $160,000.
On May 25, 1886, Mr. Bader was married on the farm of his father-in-law, E. Eisner, at Arlington, Nebraska, to Emma E. Eisner, whose father is one of the successful farmers of Nebraska. The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bader : Carl G., who is
a minister of the gospel, married Edna McAfee of Worcester, Massachusetts ; Ernest F., who is advertising manager of the United Phonograph Corporation, married Nellie Baldwin ; Eleanore O., who married Clarence King, a lumberman of Sterling, Colorado ; Alma E., who is a
music teacher, resides at home ; Clara B., who is a student of the Art Institute, of Chicago, Illinois ; and Jean R., who is attending the Fremont High School.
Mr. Bader is an active republican and has never failed to vote. He is a Methodist, and has been licensed to preach since 1886. While he has been very successful in his enterprises there is no doubt but that Mr. Bader takes more satisfaction in the work he has been able to accomplish in raising the standard of morality, and bringing additional souls into the fold. A man of unblemished private life, he sets an example for others to follow, and certainly in every act practices the religion he so fervently preaches."
A few more pieces to the family puzzle. Many thanks for starting this project. I'll be watching closely for more installments.
Hi Philip,
ReplyDeleteHey, great detective work! I knew some generation of Bader brothers had been very successful in business, but I didn't know who it was until now.
I assume the Ernest Elsner with whom J. R. Bader started his furniture business was his wife Emma's younger brother (and not her father, the farmer). I don't have their birthdates, but after Emma (born in 1867), her six younger siblings were Laura, Elizabeth and Lydia (twins), Ernest, Richard, and Anna.
We can also assume that Fred Bader, the undertaker, was one of J. R.'s brothers (unnamed in the article above); he was also probably one of the "Bader Bros." who owned the store for awhile. J. R. & Emma's second son (after Carl George) was named Ernest Frederick, possibly after Emma's father and J. R.'s brother.
I love that Clara Barton Bader (J. R. & Emma's youngest daughter) was studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1921. (She would have been 23 at the time.) By 1929, she and her new husband, Thomas Doyle, had moved to Oakland California, where they lived for the rest of their lives & raised their 6 children. (Were they the first of the clan to migrate West?)
All I know is, Barbara kept in touch with her Doyle cousins throughout her life.
Thanks so much for the contribution! All future input will be more than welcome.
Hallo Lisa
Deletesend today a lot of Information and a lot of photos of Bader to Philip Bader. Your and my familytree goes back to the year 1645. All Baders comes from Hugsweier near Lahr in the Black Forest. I am was born in Lahr(5 Miles from Hugsweier) and the Sister of my Father live in Hugsweier. I live now with my family in Kaiserslautern, near the american Airbase Ramstein.
A little more Info:
In the high Sierra Nevada mountains of California live Carlotta Ann Tormey. She is the first grand child of Clara Bader
Doyle. Her children were Thomas ( Catherine Doyle Sullivans father),Sheila
Theresa Doyle ( here mother) Sarah (Sally) Doyle, Millicent Doyle, Jerome
Doyle and Carlotta Ann who died at 22 months old. She was named after her.
Carlotta Ann Tormey is an artist.
She met Eugene Bader a long time ago in 1960. She think he was Carls son, but she
is not sure. He was an Opera singer ( like here mother) and also was a leader
of the Boy Scouts of America.
In Arcata, Carlefornia live Catherine Doyle Sullivan, the cousin of Carlotta An Tormey.
If you like more send an mail.
Good wishes from germany
Daniel Bader
Hi, Daniel
DeleteAs I wrote to Philip earlier today, Clara Barton Bader married Thomas Doyle in Omaha in January, 1925. Their first two children, Thomas (Tommy, born Nov 1925) and Sheila (born May, 1927) were born in Omaha, but the rest of their five children were born in Oakland, CA: Sally, Millicent, and Jerome. (Along with one stillborn daughter, and the first little Carlotta who died in infancy.)
Clara and Thomas lived in Oakland from at least 1929 until their deaths, in 1958 and 1962, respectively.
We have never known the names of Tommy Doyle and Sheila Doyle's children until now. We do know that their younger sister, Millicent, and her husband, Richard Carrigan, had 3 children, Christopher, Kevin, and Judy, but I don't know when they were born or here they are now.
Sally Doyle (she and my mother, Barbara, were first cousins who kept in touch all their lives) never married. Evidently, their youngest brother, Jerome, never married either.
Thanks so much for the info!
Lisa
PS: I have no idea who Eugene Bader, the opera singer is. We will have to do more research!
DeleteLisa
I also forgot to add that Sheila Doyle married Arthur J. Tormey in Oakland, CA, in 1947. They are, of course, the parents of Carlotta Ann Tormey.
DeleteHi Lisa,
DeleteI am Catherine Doyle Sullivan, daughter of Tommy and La Verne. Thanks to Daniel I too have received lots of info on our family. Sheila also had Kathleen with Art, then remarried Ray Weems and had 3 more daughters, all of whom I am very close to. We grew up minutes away from each other. I'd be happy to send some of those photos your way. Daniel found me through a post I made to aboutartist.com. I had downloaded the photo of Clara, that is now on the site. By the way, the 6th child of Clara's had died as an infant, so only the five of them remained to live out their lives here in California
ps..I put up anonymous because I'm not sure how to join google!!!
Deletesorry:)
Catherine Doyle Sullivan
Hi, Catherine,
DeleteWelcome to the group!
This is amazing, all these Bader offspring finding each other for the first time.
Was Clara an artist? I have no idea what she did in life, although we've just learned she attended the Art Institute of Chicago as a young woman. And was Sheila (your aunt) an opera singer, as Daniel suggests?
I would love to hear more from you! Thanks for any info you can spare!
Oh, and don't worry about posting as Anonymous. I set this blog up that way for exactly this reason, so people who don't have a Google acct can still join in! (Thanks for the tip, Steve!)
Lisa
I have a beautiful watercolor, painted by Clara Bader Doyle, hanging in my living room!!!
DeleteThanks for that information, Philip! Barbara often mentioned a successful furniture business in J.R. Bader's life, but couldn't give as many details about it as are contained in that article.
ReplyDeleteThere's a small discrepancy about the date of J.R.'s marriage to Emma Elsner: The "Bader Family History" document begun by the Reverend and continued by Barbara gives the date as May 25, 1887, not 1886. I wonder which is correct?
Steve
Hallo Steve,
ReplyDeletein my familytree marrige Jacob R.Bader (* 24.Jul.1864 + 28.Sep.1929) and Emma Elsner (*04 Aug 1867 +14 May 1949)on 24. May 1886.
More Information that i found:
RIDGE CEMETERY - Fremont Nebraska (Part II - The Northern half - pages 155-290) It should still be existing grave stones.
30/12/2007
Sorry for my english, i try my best:-)
Good wishes from Germany
Daniel Bader
Hello, Cousin Daniel,
DeleteAnd thank you for this wealth of information, which will take us some time to absorb. If the History of Dodge and Washington Counties and the gravestones in Fremont agree that J.R. Bader's wedding date was 1886, then I'm sure you're right. My grandfather's memory, or recording hand, might easily have slipped over an event that happened before he was born.
I am Steve Jensen, Lisa's brother, Barbara Bader Jensen's son, the Reverend Carl George Bader's grandson, and J.R. Bader's great-grandson. Philip Bader is our cousin--another grandson of the Reverend Carl and great-grandson of J.R. Our grandfather, the Reverend Carl (1888-1980), began a family chart of the Baders in America before his death, and his older daughter, my mother Barbara (1921-2010), and several of my generation have been trying to add to it as much information as we can. Some of the information you have provided about the Doyles is new to all of us.
There has been at least one opera singer in our branch of the family, too. Linda Trotter (1937- ), the granddaughter of the Reverend Carl Bader's younger brother Ernest Frederick (1889-1942), studied opera and sang professionally in Germany, and married a German man, Erich Dieter Heger, in 1969.
Thanks also for telling us exactly where Hugsweier is. My mother Barbara thought it was in Bavaria. Now we know it's in western Germany, near the French border. And it's quite interesting to learn that our more distant ancestors may have been Swiss.
Don't worry about your English--it's much better than my German! Best wishes from California,
Steve Jensen
Hello, Cousin Steve!
DeleteThis is your cousin, Linda Trotter-Heger, who sang opera from 1961-82 in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. My ex-husband is Erich Dieter Heger. I met you when you were a child, and your family came to visit us in Glendale. I've contacted your sister via e-mail. How could I contact Daniel Bader in Kaiserslautern, Germany? I can write him in German. My husband and I spoke only German. I would love to hear from you! While your mother was alive, she sent me a Christmas card every year! Best Wishes to you! Your cousin, Linda Trotter
The family Bader lives since 1645 until today in Hugsweier. The first 3 generations were by occupation Miller and operated a mill in Hugsweier. One of the 2 mills gives it this very day in the place ( http://www.rubinmuehle.de ). One the first Bader (Hanß Jacob Bader born about 1667) in our family tree was married with the daughter of Rubin, the miller. Anna Maria Rubin died however 1706 after the birth of the second daughter. Hanß Jacob Bader marries in the same year again. The old mill was torn off in the year 1979. It looks, as if the ancestors come 1645 ago from Switzerland to Hugsweier. Unfortunately is missing to me in addition to today still the connection.
ReplyDeleteHugsweier is a small place with approximately 3000 inhabitants at the border to France and in the proximity to Switzerland.
The next larger city (5 kilometers removed) is with 40000 inhabitants the city Lahr. Here I was born.
On the web page http://www.hugsweier.lahr.de/hugsweier.1310.htm are to be found information about Hugsweier. A picture shows the church in the all Bader, also Jacob, was baptized.
Also the web page http://www.lahr.de/startseite.1.1.htm is from interest. Hugsweier is a part of the city Lahr.
In all other respects the names Jacob and Christian over generations were the usually used first names in the Bader-family.
Karl Franz Jacob Bader born 03 December 1747 had very noble godfathers: Karl Wilhelm, hereditary prince von Nassau Usingen and princess Dorothea von Nassau Usingen. The most probable reason for it is, it with the son Karl Franz Jacob Bader in reality around an illegitimate child of the hereditary prince acts and these against a high financial allowance of the hereditary prince, of Johann Jacob Bader at child place is educated.
Now to Jacob Bader, the father of Clara Bader Doyle, and its brothers and sisters:
Carl Bader was up to its death a minister and was, then it looks also repeated, in America. It wrote several books. These are today still available. It created the Diakoniewerk Bethesda in Wuppertal. He was a very large speaker.
In the city Wuppertal gives it today still its honour grave and its gravestone.With its great-grandchild I had to before few years still a contact. Unfortunately he died 2002 at the age of 80 years.
Part 2
ReplyDeleteWilhelm Bader born to 30.09.1862 was " from 1888 to 1909 as Missionar for "Basler Mission" in India. From it there is a diary over its time in India. This lies in a museum in Germany.It was married and had two girls. Over these children there, up to the dates of birth and dying data, is unfortunately no information.
Jacob Bader born 24 July 1864 in Hugsweier, the father of Clara: Over it there are hardly, except the information in connection with Fred (Friedrich or also Frederick) Bader further information. Unfortunately I have also no photos. Its birth certificate is present. Also its grave place is well-known. It should be buried with his wife Emma Elsner, after my documents, in Fremont.
Jacob R. Bader Emma E. Bader
24 July 1864 28 Sep 1929 4 Aug 1867 14 May 1949
(RIDGE CEMETERY - Fremont Nebraska (Part II - North half - Pages 155-290)
Also the grave of Fred Bader and its family is on this cemetery, believes I.
(http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/dodge/cemetery/ridge2.txt)
Fred Bader born on 13 November 1870 gives writing here it to more information than I you can. In addition I give you some web pages with texts and pictures. Exhibition there simply. Most is written in English.
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/Nebraskana/pages/nbka0016.htm
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/Nebraskana/pages/nbka0017.htm
Karolina Bader born to 01. Aril 1866 was with Philipp Stier, likewise like Wilhelm Bader a Missionar " Basler Mission" in India, marries.It lived with her husband, whom it married 1894, until 1915 in India. There is no further information about possible children from the marriage.
Maria Christina Bader born 20 December 1874 lived 25 with her husband Jakob Wöhrlin, which she married on 29 October 1901, up to their death on January 1953 in Hugsweier. A grave is today still present.
This should be short review over the Bader-family. There are many stories to tell surely still. But this differently times.
Some photos come later.
Daniel, this is an amazing amount of information!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for joining us. How long have you been studying Bader family history?
Lisa
Fred Bader, a resident of Nebraska for the past 44 years, was born at Hugsweier, Lahr, Baden, Germany, November 13, 1870, the son of Karl and Karoline (Lieb) Bader. His father, who was born at Hugsweier, June 4, 1829, and died there November 15, 1912, was tax collector for 47 years and city clerk for 8 years; all his family except him came to America and settled in Nebraska in 1864. His mother was born at Flehingen, Bretten, Baden, Germany, in 1835, and died at Freiburg, Baden, Germany, November 7, 1896. Her mother died when she was still an infant, and she was reared by an uncle.
ReplyDeleteMr. Bader attended school in Germany. Starting in the furniture and undertaking business in 1890 with the firm Elsner& Bader, since then he has been a member of the following firms: Bader & Anderson; Bader Brothers Company; Fred Bader Company, and the Fred Bader Funeral Home, Incorporated, of which he is president. He is a director in the Equitable Building & Loan Association, the Union National Bank, the Fremont Hotel Company, and the Chamber of Commerce.
He is a member of the Odd Fellows Temple, the Nebraskana Society, the Red Cross, and the Rotary Club, all of Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska. He holds membership in the Masons, Odd Fellows (deputy grand master), Knights of Pythias, Rebeccas, and the Eastern Star. He is affiliated with the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Fremont, and is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a Republican.
On November 20, 1895, he was united in marriage with Laura Cochran at Fremont. Mrs. Bader was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, August 31, 1873. They have two children: Ruth, born November 15, 1896, who attended Northwestern University and was graduated from Van Sant Business College, and who married Mernitz Dewey Jastram; and Marian, born February 17, 1902, who was graduated from Midland College with the A. B. degree, and now teaches in junior high school. Ruth has two children, Rupert Mitchell, six years of age, and Edith Marian who is three.
Mr. Bader attended the Rotary Internationale at Vienna as a delegate in 1931. While in Europe he visited in Germany and traced the Bader family history back to 1660. The church records were destroyed in the ravages of the Thirty Years' War.
From History of Dodge and Washington Counties, Nebraska And Their People
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Frederick (Fred) Bader.
The Bader family is one of the best-known ones of Dodge County, and has as its representatives some of the sound and dependable men of this region, one of them being Frederick Bader of
Fremont, who, with his brother, Jacob R. Bader, is engaged in the undertaking business under the name of Fred Bader & Company, and he is also engaged in the jobbing of caskets under the name of the Fremont Casket Company.
Frederick Bader was born in Hugsweier, Baden, Germany, on November 13, 1870, a son of Carl and Caroline (Lieb) Bader, most estimable parents who brought up their children in an atmosphere of
piety, and so turned their attention to spiritual matters that all of them have been upright Christians, two have gone into the ministry, and two have gone to India, one as a missionary and the other as the wife of a missionary.
Up to the time he was eighteen years of age Fred Bader remained at home and attended the public schools of his native place, but then came to the United States, and coming west, settled in Nebraska, his arrival at Nebraska City being in 1888. For two seasons he was employed during the winter months as shipping clerk in the sausage department of the Chicago Packing Company, and for one summer he was on a farm in Washington County. Mr. Bader then came to Fremont and for three months worked in the tub factory. An opening occurring for him in the furniture business, he went into it and remained in it through the various changes in name and partners until he and his brother, Jacob R. Bader, became the owners of the undertaking part of the business, in 1900, and operated it under the name of the Bader Brothers Company. Later Fred Bader bought an interest in the furniture business and subsequently he and his brother purchased the stock of Mr. Rogers, conducting both the furniture and undertaking branches under their firm name of Bader Brothers Company. The volume of business increased to such an extent that in 1916 the brothers decided to divide it, and Fred Bader took over
the undertaking branch, leaving his brother in charge of the furniture, since then operating as Fred Bader & Company. As an adjunct to his business, Mr. Bader is engaged in the jobbing of caskets under the name of the Fremont Casket Company, and does a jobbing trade in them in Nebraska, South Dakota and Colorado. Two men represent the latter company on the road. Mr. Bader is a highly trained undertaker, whose license bears the date of June 20, 1900. He is noted for his reliability in sympathetic service and moderation in charges incurred in the hour of bereavement.
On November 26, 1895, Mr. Bader was united in marriage with Laura Cochran, born in Ottumwa, Iowa, and they have had two children born to them, namely : Ruth, who is connected with M. A. Disbrow &
Company of Omaha, Nebraska, was graduated from the Fremot High School, the Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois, and the Van Sant Business College of Omaha, Nebraska ; and Marian, who was graduated from the Fremont High School, is now taking a post-graduate course at the Midland College.
From History of Dodge and Washington Counties, Nebraska And Their People
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Frederick (Fred) Bader.
Mr. Bader is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Well known in Masonry, he is a Knight Templar, thirty-second degree and Shriner Mason, and he also belongs to the Odd Fellows in both of its branches, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen. For a number of years he has been a director of the Commercial Club, and is serving the church as treasurer. In politics he is a republican, but has not cared to compete for public honors. In addition to the business enterprises already mentioned, Mr. Bader is a director of the First National Bank of Fremont. His time and attention have
been fully occupied with his business affairs, but he and his family have pleasant recollections of a recreation period, when for three months they visited Europe in 1907, long before the terrible devastating war had plunged the world into conflict and destroyed so many of the former pleasure grounds. Both Mr. Bader and his brother are men of the highest standing in the community in which they have worked for so long and faithfully, and none are held in greater esteem because of personal characteristics than these two.