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Otto Andrew Baumgarten

Otto Andrew Baumgarten

Male 1856 - 1941  (85 years)

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  • Name Otto Andrew Baumgarten 
    Birth 1856  Indigo Creek, Victoria, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Droving 16 Jul 1918  Boundary Store Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Droving 23 Sep 1918  Yallalong Homestead Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Droving 26 Aug 1920  Bidgiemia Station Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Droving 21 Oct 1921  Balfour Downs Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Droving 2 Jan 1923  Mt Barnett Station Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Droving 24 Jan 1923  Bilyuin Pool Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Mining 2 Oct 1925  Pinyerinya Pool Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Mining 14 Nov 1926  Peak Hill Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Droving 4 Nov 1927  La Grange Bay Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Death 1941  Mullewa Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I384  Drovers
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2024 

    Family Clara Walters   d. 10 May 1943, Mullewa Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Jul 1885  Tumbarumba, New South Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • An enjoyable day was spent at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Baumgarten in Mullewa when they celebrated the 55th anniversary of their wedding, which took place at Tumbarumba, New South Wales.

      Mr. Baumgarten, who is 82 years of age, is one of the few surviving members of that band of pioneers known as the "Canning Expedition" who blazed the trail from North to South when surveying the Canning Stock Route.
    Children 
    +1. Clarence Andrew (Trix) Baumgarten   d. 25 Dec 1932
     2. Leslie Blonden Baumgarten,   b. 1895, Tumbarumba, New South Wales, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. May 1935, Mullewa Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 40 years)
     3. Clara Eliesa Baumgarten   d. 1843, Mullewa Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location
    +4. Otto Emil Baumgarten   d. 1966, Middle Swan Western Australia Find all individuals with events at this location
    +5. Selina Matilda Baumgarten,   b. 7 Dec 1886, Albury New South Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 May 1954 (Age 67 years)
    Family ID F115  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1856 - Indigo Creek, Victoria, Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Jul 1885 - Tumbarumba, New South Wales Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDroving - Sheep Movements The Meekathara Telegraph says: Drover Baumgaarton passed Boundary, Store Gascoyne River, on July 16th with 3000 wethers from Waroora, and Mia Mia Stations en route to Mullewa. - 16 Jul 1918 - Boundary Store Western Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDroving - MULLEWA NEWS. (From Our Own Correspondent) Mullewa, Sept 23 Drover Baumgarten has delivered 3000 very prime wethers, also over 100 fat cattle have arrived and been trucked, from Messrs L. C. Mitchell and Son's Yallalong Station. - 23 Sep 1918 - Yallalong Homestead Western Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDroving - Mr. Otto Baumgarten left Meekatharra yesterday to lift 12,000 sheep. Bidgiemia supplies 6000 at Gascoyne Junction, and 6000 are from Edagee, 150 miles north west of that place. This drover goes through to Mullewa which he expects to reach about the 15th October. - 26 Aug 1920 - Bidgiemia Station Western Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDroving - The space available at the railway trucking yards was taxed to its utmost on Wednesday when the mob of over 1300 cattle brought down from Balfour Downs and other North-West stations by the Cattle Overlanding Company, were offered for sale. The cattle arrived in good condition after their long journey. Mr. James Alcorn and Messrs. Baumgarten and Sons drove the cattle in two mobs. The drovers complain of the state of the wells and conveniences at the Cue end of the trip. - 21 Oct 1921 - Balfour Downs Western Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDroving - A RECORD DROVING TRIP. Our Mullewa correspondent writes:- What is unquestionably a record droving trip was completed just before Xmas. Messrs. Baumgarten Bros, left Meekatharra 12 months ago, and lifted 500 head of cattle from Mt. Barnett Station in the Kimberley's the very top end of Western Australia, and brought, them to Karbar Station on the Murchison, the distance traversed being 2,800 miles. Of the 500 head of cattle they started with they landed 485. When one considers the state of the country traversed, which was extremely dry in some stages, this is a capital performance. Horses had to be fed most of the way. It is only natural a few cattle died on such a journey. One of the places passed was the now historic spot called Wallal. Very many hardships were encountered on this very long journey. The brothers have been spending Christmas in Mullewa with their friends, and they look extremely well after so trying a trip. - 2 Jan 1923 - Mt Barnett Station Western Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDroving - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24 Before H. J. Craig Esq., R.M. Otto Baumgartern, of Meekatharra. drover, was charged that at No. Three' Well on the Stock Route North-east of Bilyuin Pool, he wilfully and unlawfully killed one red roan bullock, the property of Smith's Estate Ethel Creek Station ; - 24 Jan 1923 - Bilyuin Pool Western Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMining - Notice of Application for a Reward Gold Mining Lease. No. 495P- - Notice is hereby given that Otto Andrew. Baumgarten, Percy Cecil Freeman, John Overstone, and. Richard Schader of Meekatharra, the undersigned have made application, this day for a Reward Gold Mining Lease, under the provisions of "The Mining Act 1904" on ground to be known as Baumgarten's Reward. Containing about 24 acres, about 5. miles ,N.E. of Pinyerringa Pool about 11 miles West of the 455 mile post on the R.P.F. about 77 miles' N.E. of Peak Hill, about 51 miles E.S.E. of Three Rivers Homestead, and about 130 miles N.E, of Meekatharra :— Datum peg at the South-West corner of the GROUND APPLIED for and running thence 22 chains North, thence about 23 . chains West to point of commencement, Dated at Meekatharra this 1st day of October, 1925. - -Signature of Applicants ; — OTTO ANDREW BAUMGARTEN PERCY CECIL FREEMAN JOHN OVERSTONE RICHARD SCHADER By their Agent, O. A. Baumgarten.
    MINING Another new find is reported from the North, and an application for a reward lease is being made by Mr. Otto Baumgarten. The find is situated about 5 miles northeast of the Pinyerringa Pool, 9 1/4 miles west of the 455 mile post on the Rabbit Proof fence, and is about 130 miles north-east of Meekatharra. Already some good development work has been done, and a quantity of ore is ready for crushing. Dish prospects range from 10d wts to 6 ozs.,Agency: Mining. (1925, October 8). The Mullewa Mail (WA : 1921 - 1947), p. 5.,Address:
    http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article240280874 - 2 Oct 1925 - Pinyerinya Pool Western Australia    		 Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMining - Peak Hill.-Baumgarten"s Reward, 191 tons for 41 oz. - 14 Nov 1926 - Peak Hill Western Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDroving - Drover Baumgarten, who passed here yesterday with 450 cattle from La Grange Bay for New England station, reports that with the exception of about sixty miles feed is good all along the track. The cattle looked little worse for their 900 mile trek - 4 Nov 1927 - La Grange Bay Western Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1941 - Mullewa Western Australia Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • There is at present in Perth a hardy bustler, whose record amongst horses, camels, bovines and other implements of travel and food it would be hard to beat. Name, Otto Baumgarten, German descent, Australian born, and kangaroo by love of country. O.B. has twice traversed right across W. A. to the South Australian border, having been chief stockman (in charge of horses and camels) with the Canning Expe- dition and also with the Pilmer Dis- persal

      Party. Went through on both trips with a maximum amount of success and a minimum loss of animais. Listening to Otto Baumgarten telling some of the experiences on both these trips (albeit he is anything but a garrulous man), and the young, middle-aged. and otherwise blood within you will curdle in its courses. He has been a buyer of live beef and mutton for several big Australian firms, and though between 46 and 50 can throw rope, sit and break any outlaw as well as the next best Chronicler of this par saw.

      Baumgarten recently took charge of a brumby that had threatened to kill its owner, and B gave an impromptu exhibition that made a Pit of experts stand from under. Amongst the highest admirers of O.B. are Police Commissioner Council and Explorer Canning, a guarantee that the State has in it men who can well displace the Afghan in the working of the dromedary, an animal that was for a long time thought to be the especial preserve of the sons of Asia. [11]

  • Sources 
    1. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66506160.
      LOCAL AND GENERAL (1918, September 5). Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928), p. 2

    2. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66509393.
      MULLEWA NEWS. (1918, September 26). Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928), p. 1

    3. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article211879717.
      PASTORAL. (1920, August 26). Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette (WA : 1920 - 1947), p. 3

    4. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article233500779.
      CATTLE SALE AT CUE. (1921, October 21). The Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette (Cue, WA : 1894 - 1925), p. 3.

    5. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66686692.
      A RECORD DROVING TRIP. (1923, January 2). Geraldton Guardian (WA : 1906 - 1928), p. 2

    6. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article211648206.
      M. [?] Police Court. (1923, January 26). Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette (WA : 1920 - 1947), p. 3.

    7. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article211355408.
      Advertising (1925, October 2). Daily Telegraph and North Murchison and Pilbarra Gazette (WA : 1920 - 1947), p. 5.

    8. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58253107.
      STATE BATTERY RETURNS (1926, November 14). Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), p. 19

    9. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32062911.
      COUNTRY NEWS. (1927, November 4). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 9

    10. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58979896.
      THE SOCIAL ROUNDABOUT. (1940, July 7). Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), p. 3 (SUNDAY TIMES WOMENS SECTION).

    11. [D1] National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article57737629.
      Peeps at People (1912, June 9). Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), p. 17.