Books

Johann Sebastian Bauer: History and genealogy of the Bauers of Sinzendorf, Englmannsbrunn and Untergrafenried, Bavaria, Germany and Plain, Sauk County, Wisconsin 

By Kenneth L. Kraemer, 2019

Publication date: July 2, 2019

219 numbered pages, photos, documents, table of contents, appendix, index

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Paperback $35.39, 229 pages

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (July 2, 2019)

ISBN-10: 1983492655

ISBN-13: 978-1983492655

200 years of Bauer family history from the mid- 1700s to the mid 1900s in Germany and America. Johann Sebastian Bauer was beheaded at Waldmünchen in 1814 for crimes committed against his family. Three of Sebastian Bauer's daughters immigrated to Wisconsin and lived in the Plain, Sauk County, area. 

7 books in The Kraemer Series

Kraemer in Amerika: History and genealogy of the Kraemers from Tiefenbach, Bavaria, Germany, who immigrated to Stearns County, Minnesota, and to Los Angeles, California.

Volume 1, The Kraemer Series

by Debra A. Blau and Kenneth L. Kraemer, 2014

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42 pages

Publication Date: Aug 04 2014

ISBN/EAN13: 1499779720 / 9781499779721 (color) at 

Publication Date: Aug 21 2014

ISBN/EAN13: 1500764973 / 9781500764975 (black and white)

Available at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison, Wisconsin:

https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9910206729802121

Wisconsin Kraemers: I. In the old world of Bavaria. History and genealogy of the Kraemers of Tiefenbach, Bavaria and Plain, Sauk County, Wisconsin.

Volume 2, The Kraemer Series

by Kenneth L. Kraemer, 2015

Part I of II: Tells the story of each generation from 1649 to 1866 when Paul Kraemer emigrated from Irlach, Bavaria to Wisconsin just after the Civil War ended. The book includes translated copies of original documents in Latin and German from historical archives in Germany, maps of the area and Kraemer property, photos of buildings and sites, and a narrative that ties all these things together. It ends with Paul and Walburga Stangl Kraemer's hurried preparations to emigrate and travel with their children to the port of Hamburg in Northern Germany for their immigration journey to America.

Available for purchase at the Old Franklin Township Historical Society, PO Box 218, Plain, WI 53577 (see their website for ordering information) and through various book sellers.

Publication Date: July 9, 2015

ISBN/EAN13: 1499537603 / 9781499537604

Winner of the 2016 Genealogy/Family History Book Award! Judges from the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society recommended the author receive the award. The Wisconsin Historical Society's Board of Curators approved the 2016 Genealogy/Family History Book Award. Read more here.

Wisconsin Kraemers: II. The new world of America. Paul and Walburga Kraemer and their children. History and genealogy of the Kraemers of Tiefenbach and Irlach, Bavaria and Plain, Sauk County, Wisconsin.

Volume 3, The Kraemer Series

by Kenneth L. Kraemer, 2017

Part II of II: Addresses the Kraemer family in America after 1866. It covers family lore such as whether Paul Kraemer had a brother who also emigrated to America, whether Paul was a carpenter, why he spent a year in Fredonia Township, Ozaukee County from 1866-1867, what led him to Sauk County, and how he and his children and grandchildren children fared thereafter. Overall, these two volumes are a story about what can be accomplished with entrepreneurship, hard work and a little luck from Johann to Johan Christoph to Paul Kraemer in Bavaria and to Paul Kraemer, Edward Kraemer and the Kraemer Brothers in Wisconsin. It also explores the families that Kraemer women married into - the first generations of the Weidner, Laubmeier, Meister and Ruhland families.) 232 pages.

Publication Date: Apr 22 2017

ISBN/EAN13: 1544223234 / 9781544223230 (black and white)

ISBN/EAN13: 154509747X / 9781545097472 (color)

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Wisconsin Kraemers: III. The twentieth Century. Peter Kraemer, Anna Ring, Grace Ring, Katherine Eckstein and their children. History and genealogy of the Kraemers of Tiefenbach and Irlach, Bavaria and Plain, Sauk County, Wisconsin. 

Volume 4, The Kraemer Series 

by Kenneth L. Kraemer, November 2017

Besides the families mentioned in the title, the book includes their children: John Leo Kraemer and wives Isabella Hutter and Martha "Matti" Haas; Edward Kraemer and wife Gisela Frank; Albert Kraemer and wife Mathilda Nachreiner; Anton Kraemer; Francis "Frank" Kraemer and wife Mary Bayer; Alphonse Kraemer and wife Mary Frank; Benedict Kraemer and wife Elsie Peters; Anna Kraemer and husband Clem Frank; Elizabeth Kraemer and 3 husbands Albert Liegel, Lynn Schult, Dr. Marcus Bossard; Esther Kraemer and husband Theodore "Ted" Frank; Leo Kraemer and wife Lucy Bauer. 

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The Other Cramers: Building a Wisconsin Community. The Kraemer Series, Volume 7. 

by Kenneth L. Kraemer, August 1, 2018

This book tells the story of the early 1850s pioneer family named Cramer (Solomon) and how today's Village of Plain, Wisconsin, was once known as "Cramer’s Corner" - named after two Cramer families who owned land at the corner of Main Street and Wachter Avenue. The first generation of Cramers were farmers while a second generation became carpenters and built houses and barns in Sauk County. The Cramers also built a brickyard, sawmill, grist mill and had a lumber business in Plain. Three Cramer brothers built a large general store. By 1922, the Cramer families had left Plain. 

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Lucy: Lucy Rose Bauer Kraemer

by Kenneth L. Kraemer, 2015. 124 pages. 

This book is about the author’s mother who was born in 1904 on a small farm in Franklin Township, a few miles south of Plain, Sauk County, Wisconsin. "She came from one of the poorest families in the area, made poor by the early death of a father whose ambitions had created large debt that a widow with nine young children could not sustain. Despite the hardship and struggle, she had a rich life, also enriching all those who came in contact with her by her smile, laughter and tears."

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Leo: Leo Adam Kraemer. The Kraemers Series, Volume 6

by Kenneth L. Kraemer, March 1, 2018

Leo Kraemer was born in 1905 on a farm in Wilson Creek, Spring Green Township, Sauk County, Wisconsin. His mother died when he was 2 years old. He lived with an aunt for the next three years then returned home at age five in the home of his new step-mother. He married Lucy Bauer. Leo was employed by Edward Kraemer and Sons. 

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Books by Kenneth Kraemer : 

Kraemer in Amerika

Kraemer History website by Kenneth Kraemer https://kraemerhistory.org/