Matthias Bader

    Matthias Bader was a native of Germany, and the son of John and Katherine (Bihler) Bader; both his parents died in Germany.

    Matthias Bader was born in December 3, 1826, in Wurtemberg, Germany, and came to this country in 185, and located in Indiana in the same year. He went to work by the month on the farm, and continued to do so for about four years.

    In 1858 he was married to Miss Mary Holwager, daughter of Frederick Holwager, a farmer of this county. After marrying, he rented a farm at money rent, and in 1861 he bought 40 acres of land, and since then has bought, at different times, land adjoining, until now he has a farm of 200 acres of good land, seven miles from Madison, very well improved and well stocked.

    He has four children, three boys and one girl, viz: William and Annie, Charlie and Edward. William is now a farmer in Kansas; the others are at home.

    Mr. Bader was drafter in 1864; for one year, was in Co. B, Fortieth Indiana Volunteers. He served nine months, and was in Nashville, Tennessee. He was taken sick and sent to the hospital at Jeffersonville, where he took small-pox, and was sent to the hospital at Louisville. He is a member of the M. E. Church at Kent.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.