John Baumann

BAUMANN, PLUNK

Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt (email)
Date: 9/16/2009 at 15:10:25

The History of Cedar County, Iowa, containing a History of the County, its Cities, Towns, &c.,..., Chicago: Western historical Company, 1878, p618.

DAYTON TOWNSHIP.
BAUMANN, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 4; P.O. Clarence; was born in Bavaria, Germany, April 28, 1830; he came to the United States in 1854; he worked the following summer in Portsmouth, Ohio, and then removed to Kane Co., Ill.; remained there about six years, and then went to Michigan City, Ind.; remained there about three years and then returned to Aurora and remained about three years and to this county in 1868; owns 200 acres. He married Margaret Plunk in Jan. 1857; a native of the same place; have four sons and three daughters--Barbara, Fred, John, George, Louisa, Lydia and Henry.