Charles B. Bauer
ABT 1854
bornGermany
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BiographyBaker, bakery owner. Came to the United States in 1872.
Came to Tempe in 1899.
He was the son of a flour miller in Bavaria. Born in a Bavarian village near Munich, he left Germany at age 18 to avoid conscription into the Prussian army. He sought his fortune in the California Gold Rush, but after losing a considerable fortune in the panic, he came to Tempe from Los Angeles in 1899 to work on a telegraph line. He then worked for the Phoenix Baker.
He brought his family from Los Angeles in 1900. He rented rooms on the second floor of the Kenmore Building, and later rented a small adobe house at the
south end of La Casa Vieja from William Hilge. At the time, he worked for Hilge, also a German immigrant, who built the Tempe Bakery (now known as the Hackett House) in 1888. He worked for
Hilge for several years, but was paid only $12 a week and two loaves of bread. William Kingsbury offered him financing, and he started his own bakery at 415 Mill Avenue in 1904. He named the business the Vienna Bakery because his wife was from Wels, Austria, which was near Vienna. In the early 1920s, he employed five bakers, six pastry makers, and at least eight delivery men with five helpers. Had bakery in 1926. In 1926 , 'lived at 914 S Forest Ave. His wife was a baker in 1927.In 1932 his widow lived at 914 S Forest Ave.
He became a naturalized citizen in San Francisco in 1880.
Lived on 415 Mill Avenue in 1910, 1923. Widow Katherine lived at 914 Forest Ave in 1931.
Federal census (Tempe), 1910
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Tempe CD, 1906-1914, '22, 23, -26, '27, '30, '31, '32
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