"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, 
Adams  and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical
Publishing  Company, Publishers, 1904. p. 852.

HENRY BAUER is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska, born April 28, 1879. He is now a
prosperous farmer residing three and one-half miles west from Ritzville. Mr.
Bauerís parents were Jacob and Elizabeth (Koch) Bauer, natives of Russia and
descendants from families who came from Germany to Russia two hundred years ago.
In 1876 the parents of Mr. Bauer came to America and located in Nebraska. From
that state they came to Ogden, Utah, and from Ogden to Walla Walla, Washington,
having resided in Nebraska only three years. They lived two years at Walla
Walla, then came to Adams county, where on April 20, 1884, they settled on a
homestead near Ritzville. They are now living in Ritzville, having accumulated
sufficient property to enable them to live off their rents and interest. They
have been parents of nine children, only five of whom are now living, Peter,
Henry, Mrs. Mary M. Johnson, Lydia and Minnie, all residents of Adams county.
     The subject of our sketch received his education in Adams county, since he
was a lad of four years at the time of his parentsí coming here. After finishing
a common school course, he, at the age of twenty-three years, purchased two
hundred and forty acres of land and commenced farming on his own responsibility.
Later on he added three hundred and twenty acres to his farm, and now has all of
his land under cultivation and in a high state of improvement. He has excellent
farm buildings, and so forth, and raises some cattle and keeps about twenty head
of horses continually on his farm. As an illustration of the manner in which the
family has prospered since coming to Adams county, it may be stated that the
father, upon coming here, was worth two hundred and fifty dollars and is now
rated as being worth between thirty and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Bauer is a
Democrat in politics, but is not an active partisan. He is looked upon as being
one of the sound young farmers and rising young business men of the Big Bend.


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