John Baptist Bauer: Coming to America

A horrifying trip across the Atlantic in a coffin ship, typical transport for Irish and German immigrants in the 1840s.

John Baptist Bauer, also known as Johann Baptist Bauer, was born in 1819.   He preferred to be called Baptist because Johaann (or John) was his baptismal name. When Baptist left Baden, he was thirty years old with a medium build,  dark brown hair and gray eyes.