San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 9/29/2009
FRED BAERWALD
Classed with the enterprising and progressive business men of Lodi is Fred Baerwald, the proprietor of a grocery store located at 427 East Locust Street, where he has built up a good paying business. He was born in Vohlinien, Russia, February 16, 1861, a son of Ludwig and Anna Baerwald, both natives of Russia. Ludwig Baerwald was a school teacher in his native country and was the father of seven children by his first wife, Anna Baerwald: Samuel, Fred, and Henry grew up; while John, Martin and Edward all died while small children; the seventh died at birth, when the mother also passed away. Subsequently the father married the second time and there were eleven children in the second family; Adolph, Ernst, August, Reinhardt, Emil, Reinhold, deceased, Edward, deceased, Amelia, Ottilia, Agatha, and Mary, deceased. The father passed away at the age of fifty-three.
Fred Baerwald attended grammar school in Russia and after finishing the grade work continued his studies until he received a teacher's certificate to teach in the grammar schools of Vohlinien, where he taught the German and Russian languages for three years. At the age of twenty-one years he entered the Russian army, serving from 1882 until 1888 as a doctor's aide in the hospital department; later he became a druggist in the military hospital. After his discharge from the army he again taught school for seven years, until 1895, when he came to the United States, settling in Towner County, N.D., where he homesteaded a quarter-section of Government land; this he farmed for ten years when he sold it and bought a half-section of land in the same county; this was located near Egeland and he farmed this until 1919 when he sold out and moved to Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and engaged in farming on a 160-acre ranch.
The marriage of Mr. Baerwald occurred on October 20, 1888, in Vohlinien, Russia, which united him with Miss Emelia Lange, a native of the same place, a daughter of Reinhold and Wilhelmina Lange. Her father was a teacher and a merchant in Vohlinien and was a soldier in the Russian army during the Turkish War of 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Baerwald are the parents of thirteen children: Elfrieda, Mrs. L. Klebaum, resides in Egeland, N.D.; Mrs. Martha Ide resides at Braham, Minn.; Meta, Mrs. A. Klebaum, resides at Egeland, N.D.; Mrs. Selma Filter and Mrs. Hertha Heath reside in Lodi; Mrs. Ella Peterson resides at Bonners Ferry, Idaho; Mrs. Alma Nystrom resides in Idaho; Irene, Gertrude, Rosamond, Ehrhard, and Alfred all reside in Lodi; the next to the oldest child, Reinhold, is deceased. The family's residence in Idaho was of only six months' duration, when they came to Lodi in October, 1920. At that time he purchased a ten-acre vineyard in Madera County devoted to Thompson seedless grapes and alfalfa, which he only held for a year, and in December, 1921, purchased a grocery store at 427 East Locust Street. In politics, Mr. Baerwald is a Republican and he and his family are members of the Lutheran Church of Lodi.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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