BAUMGARTNER, SAMUEL HENRY: 1860-1936.
Samuel Henry Baumgartner was born in French Township, Adams County, Ind., Mar. 2, 1860, the sixth of nine children born to Samuel and Verena Welty Baumgartner, emigrants from Switzerland. Instructed only in reading, spelling, writing, and arithmetic as a youth, in his eighteenth year he attended the graded school in Linn Grove, Ind., for two sessions of six months each, and from 1880 to 1882 he attended summer sessions at the Adams County Normal School at Decatur, Ind., and taught in the school of his native township.
In January, 1881, he joined the Evangelical Association at Vera Cruz, Ind., and upon the death of his father in March he was elected to succeed him as "class leader" in the local church. He continued in this position until he entered Northwestern College, Naperville, Ill., in 1883. While in college he decided to enter the Christian ministry, and after graduation in 1887 he began his active ministry. In 1886 he had married Kezzie Keiper in Naperville .
During forty years as a pastor and presiding elder he held numerous appointments in the Indiana Conference of his church and was active for many years in promoting and managing camp-meetings and young people's conventions.
Following his retirement from the active ministry the Baumgartners removed to Connecticut where Mrs. Baumgartner died in 1930 and Samuel Henry Baumgartner on Nov. 18, 1936.
Information from Hope L. Baumgartner, son.
- Brief Historical Sketches of Seven Generations; Descendants
of Deacon David Baumgartner, who was born 1735. 1908.
- Brief Historical Sketches of Eight Generations; Descendants
of Ulrich Welty, Born 1728. 1926.
