The following links display information from U.S. Census Reports that provide a profile of Frank's life.
FAMILIES A-C: BAUMANN ~ Frank Baumann (1885-1957)
To access some Darrtown-related memories of Frank Baumann's two sons, Lawrence and Lester, click the following links:
ABOVE: left to right - Mrs. Lawrence (Marcella) Baumann, Pam Baumann (daughter of Lawrence and Marcella); Lester Baumann (brother of Lawrence); and Lawrence Baumann.
This 1977 photo appears to have been taken on the west side of the Lawrence Baumann home on Scott Road.
ABOVE: This 1977 photo shows Lawrence Baumann in the Frisch's parking lot on West Main Street, Hamilton, Ohio. The house in the background stood on the east side of Main Street, as the entrance to the restaurant faced the north in 1977. The property east of Main later became a shopping center.
Terri (Baumann) Klippenstein, daughter of Lester Baumann contributed the photo at the right and the two photos seen below, in March of 2012.
These three images were taken in 1977, when Terri and her father (Lester Baumann) traveled from California to visit the Lawrence Baumann family.
The photo at the right shows Terri holding on to the "Welcome to Darrtown" sign, which was located in the northeast corner of the Main Street and Mulberry Street intersection.
Presumably, these signs were paid for and erected by the Hitching Post.
As illustrated in the image at the left, the Baumanns and the Longs were neighbors, as they shared a property line.
The entrance to the Baumann farm was located on Scott Road and the entrance to the Long farm was located Darrtown Pike.
AND THERE'S MORE: Two images of Lawrence Baumann and his grandson, Chris Meador, in the company of neighbor, George Long, who was celebrating his 104th birthday, appear at the Long family page.
Frank Baumann is designated as a Darrtown pioneer, as he is the first, and oldest, Baumann known to have lived in or near Darrtown.
Frank Baumann was born in Clermont County (Ohio) and married Carrie Christine Stephan of Mt. Healthy, Ohio, in 1917. They were both 32 years old at the time. Click the following links to see the records and more.
In the photo above, houses can be seen in the field south of the George Long home.
These home were constructed after this field was no longer used as a place for Lester Baumann to land and take off in his Piper Cub aircraft.
BAUMANNS AND LONGS ... NEIGHBORS - WITH HOMES ON DIFFERENT ROADS
Slipping is something that most of us try to avoid.
Airplane pilots, however, when landing in tight spaces, find "slipping" to be a valuable skill and intentionally employ the slip technique.
Such was the case, every time that Lester Baumann landed his J-3 Piper Cub airplane in the field south of the George Long home on the east side of Darrtown Pike.
Lester's explanation of slipping an airplane appears in the following excerpts from email messages that he and the Darrtown webmaster exchanged in 2012.
"I took flying lessons , got a private license and flew my own light plane - in and out of Dad's lower field for about a year -during either 1948 or '49. I was 21 and had very poor judgement - but pulled it off many times and lived to tell about it !
I started out on a J-3 Piper Cub. A very easy-to-fly airplane.
I talked Dad into letting a strip of the lower field, below the house, go into alfalfa, instead of all in corn - so he did. I used that narrow strip for a landing strip. I always had to come in over Mr. Long's barn, "slip" the plane down, so I could use ALL of the strip. I NEEDED ALL OF IT. ha ha"
"Slipping" means I turned the wheel to the left and hit the right rudder.
You slide sideways to your left and lose altitude quickly, but maintain control of the aircraft. It had such a LONG glide angle that I couldn't do anything, but slip it in. I was in my early 20's and had very little common sense, as I look back on it. They said that George Long had a bet made that I was SURELY going to kill myself in that plane - SOONER OR LATER.
But, finances made me sell it, after I'd owned it for only a year - but it was an EXCITING YEAR! - for sure!"
The printed version of the 1950 census (above, right) is incorrect. The Baumanns did not live on the Oxford-Milford Township Road. They lived on Scott Road, east of Darrtown, which is verified by the handwritten record (RIGHT).
People familiar with the Baumann family of Darrtown remember Frank and his TWO SONS, Lawrence and Lester, as the three men that lived at and worked the farm located at 2875 Scott Road, east of Darrtown.
A third son, Carl Jacob Baumann, is named in Lester Baumann's obituary.
Currently, no record of Carl has been found at Ancestry.com. However, the news item at the right confirms Carl as a brother to Lawrence and son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baumann.
The newspaper clipping at the left appeared in Hamilton Evening Journal, Friday, August 10, 1923.
Pleasant Run, Ohio is located in northern Hamilton County, which lies immediately south of Butler County and west of Clermont County.
The text of the 1923 news item reads:
"Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baumann and sons Lawrence and Carl of Milford, Ohio, spent Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Stephan and family."
According to the 1920 census (available at the link above), Frank, Carrie, and Lawrence Baumann lived in Clermont County, on Milford Pike.
Carl is not listed in the 1920 census.
It seems logical to conclude that Carl was born after the 1920 census and before this August 1923 family visit.
PROOF OF THIRD SON
FAMILY PHOTOS
Census records, marriage records, property, and cemetery records (available at the following links) combine to tell the following story about the life of Frank William Baumann (1885-1957).
The Baumann-Stephan marriage lasted only 16 years, as Carrie died April 28, 1933. Carrie's date of death was determined from an image of her headstone (right), which is located in the Bevis (Ohio) Cedar Grove cemetery - according to the Find A Grave website.
ARRIVAL AT DARRTOWN
Currently (January, 2024) this website has no record of when Frank Baumann and family moved to their farm on Scott Road. However, Butler County property records indicate that Frank purchased the 99.66 acre farm on August 14, 1933.
BELOW: This image, from the Butler County Recorder's Office, shows the 1933 transaction that conveyed ownership of the Barngrover farm to Frank Baumann.
The date of this property transaction (August 1933) confirms that Frank Baumann was a widower and a single parent when he and his two sons (Lawrence and Lester) moved to Darrtown, - because, Carrie's death (April, 1933) preceded this property purchase by approximately four months.
BELOW: Lawrence Baumann and (presumably) a brand-new Massey-Harris farm tractor.
BELOW: Lawrence Baumann's son, Dale, appears happy with his go-cart.
ABOVE: It was time for watermelon at the Baumann's. Participants remain to be named.
ABOVE: Lester Baumann and his niece, Janet Baumann, photobombing a group of statues.
Some details of Lester's flying feats are provided in the following "Intentional Slipping" story.
The Baumann-Stephan "marriage record" was actually an application for a marriage license. From that application (and other relevant documents), we have confirmation that Frank was born February 21, 1885, in Milford, Ohio and his parents were David Baumann (1853-1940) and Amelia Katherine Ivan (1862-1938). Carrie Christine Stephan was born February 22, 1885 and her parents were Jacob and Lena (Luechauer) Stephan. Carrie’s place of birth was Georgetown, Ohio. The marriage application was dated May 2, 1917.
BELOW: This image shows the location of the 99.66 acres that Frank Baumann purchased from O. & N. Barngrover. Notice that George Long owned 31.85 acres immediately west. Mr. Long's ownership of this property is addressed in the "Intentional Slippage" story below.
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