California Biographies

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm

Source:
History of the state of California and biographical record of the San Joaquin 
Valley, California. An historical story of the state's marvelous growth from 
its earliest settlement to the present time.
Prof. James Miller Guinn , A. M.
The Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1905
Notes: Missing Page: 865-866,983-984,1175-1176


LOUIS F. BAMBAUER. Among the dairymen of the Los Banos district are many who correctly 
estimate the opportunities by which they are surrounded, and who. by diligence and faith- 
fulness to trusts imposed, fulfill their mission as exponents and successful managers of worthy  
enterprises. Of these, Louis F. Bambauer is well known and highly honored, being one of the 
younger generation who are carrying on the work begun by worthy sires in the pioneer days. 

Mr. Bambauer was born in Calaveras county, this state, February 11, 1872, the youngest of the 
children of Charles Daniel Bambauer, who came from Baden, Germany, and-whose life is reviewed 
elsewhere in this work. Mr. Bambauer lived on his father's mountain farm until five years old, 
and then located with the rest of the family on a farm near Hills Ferry, Merced county, where he 
attended the public schools, and lived until his twentieth year. Looking ahead into the future, 
he chose the blacksmith trade as a worthy means of livelihood, serving an apprenticeship under his 
brother, Charles D., at Volta, and continuing to work at his trade in the same town for nine years. 
He then left the forge and anvil and engaged in stock-raising and general farming, and in 1902 
purchased his present fertile ranch of forty acres, one mile south of Los Banos. He has a dairy 
of about twenty-five cows, mostly Durhams and Holsteins. The Bambauer ranch, called Green 
Acres, is well improved and equipped with modern, labor-saving devices, and under its present 
management gives evidence of the method and care adopted by its owner. 

In Palo Alto, this state, October 5, 1903, Mr. Bambauer married Lulu Gertrude, daughter 
of the late Charles A. and Mrs. Marian A. (Souther) Wood, both early settlers of California. 
Mrs. Bambauer was born in San Felipe, Santa Clara county, and after graduating from the 
San Jose Normal School engaged in educational work in Los Banos for several years. Mr. 
Bambauer votes the Democratic ticket in national politics, but locally is guided solely by the 
merits of office-seekers. He is a liberal and public-spirited gentleman, having many friends in 
a community which has watched his progress during his active life, and which has found him 
invariably honorable, courteous and steadfast.