Emma Pow Bauder

Rev. Emma Pow Bauder (née Smith; March 11, 1848 – July 23, 1932) was an American evangelist, missionary, reformer, and author.[1][2] Affiliated with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ in Michigan since 1879, she soon thereafter relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was also active with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), the largest women's organization in the U.S. during the Gilded Age.[3]

Rev.
Emma Pow Bauder
"A Woman of the Century"
Personal
Born
Emma Pow Smith

March 11, 1848
North Adams, Michigan, U.S.
DiedJuly 23, 1932
Oakland, California, U.S.
ReligionChurch of the United Brethren in Christ
Spouse
  • Name of first husband is unknown (married, 1867; divorced, ca. 1874)
  • Thomas Jefferson Bauder
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1893; died 1911)​
Profession
  • evangelist
  • missionary
  • reformer
  • author
Senior posting
Literary works
  • Chrysolyte
  • Anarchy
Ordination1879
Profession
  • evangelist
  • missionary
  • reformer
  • author

Early life

Emma Pow Smith was born in North Adams, Michigan, March 11, 1848.[4] She came from a long line of U.S. ancestry. Her father, John Henry Smith, M.D., (1814–1895) was born and raised in Royalton, New York, in which place he lived with his parents until he attained his majority. At the age of 24, he married Altha Mariah (nee Brooks) (1820–1890), who was also had a long line of U.S. ancestry. In 1843, they emigrated from New York State and settled on a farm in the dense woods of Michigan, where their daughter Emma was born, the seventh child of a family of twelve. Smith Bauder's siblings were, George (b. 1835), Eliza (b. 1842), Mary (b. 1843), Harriett (b. 1845), Alonzo (b. 1846), Francis (b. 1846), Viola (b. 1851), Ella (b. 1853), Byron (b. 1856), Myron (b. 1856), and Carrie (b. 1863).[4] As a child, she was eccentric and given to seeking seclusion and solitude. Even in childhood she seemed to have a reverence for God in nature.[1]

Career

During her religious career, Smith Bauder was affiliated with the United Brethren. Being converted in June 1879, she was licensed to preach shortly afterwards while in Doris, Michigan.[5] Closing her dressmaking business, she went directly from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to California, where she worked for five years as a gospel missionary in San Francisco.[1] Her missionary headquarters were located in the city's Barbary Coast district at the Silver Star House, corner of Pacific and Sansome streets.[6] For seven years, she served as pastor of the Oakland Mission Church of the United Brethren. In 1901, she was appointed Conference Missionary of the United Brethren's California Conference.[7]

(1902)

In 1887, she was duly authorized and began her work in the field under the auspices of the W.C.T.U.[1] A young woman's W.C.T.U. branch existed for several years at Reno, Nevada, another at Carson City and a third at Elko. The children's Band of Hope was merged into the Loyal Temperance Legion, and several unions reported this branch of endeavor as part of their work. The most complete report of organization was that given by Smith Bauder in 1888. She delivered 100 addresses, added 300 members to the W.C.T.U. and organized 200 boys and girls into Loyal Temperance Legions.[8] In May 1888, Smith Bauder was the opening speaker at the Nebraska W.C.T.U.'s annual convention, returning in June, August, and October of that year, as guest lecturer in multiple cities on behalf of the W.C.T.U.[9][10][11] She was also sponsored by the W.C.T.U. as a visiting lecturer in Texas.[12] At the Sixth Annual Convention of the W.C.T.U. of Contra Costa County, in Antioch, California in 1890, Smith Bauder resigned her position as County Superintendent of Young Women's Work.[13] In 1892, at the Thirteenth Annual Convention of the W.C.T.U. of California, her title was changed from State Organizer to State Evangelist.[14] That year, her temperance work took her to Lake, Humboldt, Mendocino, and Shasta counties.[15]

Among her literary and poetical productions was Chrysolyte.[1] Others included Jets of truth, or, Revolutionary spokes in the wheel of progress. : a book devoted to truth, temperance and reform and "for God, and home, and native land.", Ruth and Marie: A Fascinating Story of the Nineteenth Century, Anarchy; its cause and cure, and The Inhabitants of Two Worlds.

In 1910, Smith Bauder served as Chaplain, a National Officer position of the Woman's Prohibition Club of America.[16]

Personal life

Smith Bauder was twice married. In April 1867, she married a man who proved to be an alcoholic. After seven unhappy years, she divorced him and regained her maiden name.[1] In Sacramento, California, on December 14, 1893, she married Thomas Jefferson Bauder (1839–1911),[4] who was then a resident of Fresno, California while she was a resident of Pacific Grove, California.[1][17] Rev. T. J. Bauder was pastor of the United Brethren Church in Sacramento before becoming the presiding elder of United Brethren California Conference.[7][18]

For 32 years, Rev. Emma Pow Smith Bauder made her home in Oakland, California, where she died July 23, 1932.[19][5][lower-alpha 1]

Selected works
Anarchy; its cause and cure

Novels
  • Emma Pow Smith, Jets of truth, or, Revolutionary spokes in the wheel of progress. : a book devoted to truth, temperance and reform and "for God, and home, and native land.", 1886
  • Emma Pow Smith, Chrysolyte, 1891 (text)
  • Emma Pow Bauder, Ruth and Marie: A Fascinating Story of the Nineteenth Century, 1895 (text)
  • Emma Pow Bauder, Anarchy; its cause and cure, 1902 (text}
  • Emma Pow Bauder, The Inhabitants of Two Worlds, 1904 (text)

Musical compositions
  • "Y. Bells", lyrics by Emma Pow Smith, music by Flora H. Cassel, 1890[20]
  • "When the Girls can Vote", lyrics by Emma Pow Smith, music by M. H. Evans, 1890[20]
  • "Nobody cares", lyrics by E. P. Bauder, music unknown, 1911[21]

Notes
  1. VIAF and Baym (2012) indicate 1901 as Bauder's year of death, while her cemetery record and obituary article use 1932.

References
  1. Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "SMITH, Mrs. Emma Pow". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 661–62. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. Baym, Nina (17 August 2012). Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927. University of Illinois Press. p. 268. ISBN 978-0-252-07884-2. OCLC 1055583356.
  3. Shrock, Joel (30 June 2004). The Gilded Age. ABC-CLIO. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-313-06221-6. OCLC 1030898728.
  4. "Emma Pow Smith". www.familysearch.org. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  5. "Rev Emma Pow (Smith) Bauder, born 1848 in Michigan. Died July 1932". Oakland Tribune. 26 July 1932. p. 16. Retrieved 8 January 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Mrs. Smith, Missionary". The San Francisco Examiner. 26 December 1885. p. 2. Retrieved 8 January 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  7. Rhinehart, William R., ed. (1901). "California". Religious Telescope. Dayton, Ohio: Church of the United Brethren in Christ. 67: 1047, 1084, 1809. Retrieved 8 January 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  8. Davis, Sam Post (1913). The history of Nevada. Reno, Nevada ; Los Angeles, CA: The Elms Publishing Co., Inc. p. 776. Retrieved 8 January 2023 – via Internet Archive. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  9. "Mrs. Emma Pow Smith". The New Patriot. 7 June 1888. p. 3. Retrieved 8 January 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  10. "W. C. T. U. Department". The New Patriot. 9 August 1888. p. 3. Retrieved 8 January 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  11. "TO-NIGHT". The Western Wave. 25 October 1888. p. 4. Retrieved 8 January 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  12. James D. Ivy (2003). No Saloon in the Valley: The Southern Strategy of Texas Prohibitionists in 1880s. Baylor University Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-918954-87-9. OCLC 1022726863.
  13. "Report of Proceedings". Contra Costa Gazette. 31 May 1890. p. 3. Retrieved 8 January 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  14. Woman's Christian Temperance Union of California (October 1892). Minutes of the Thirteenth Annual Convention ... with Reports. San Jose, California. p. 56. OCLC 11099298.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  15. Woman's Christian Temperance Union of California (1892). Minutes of the Annual Convention ... with Reports. p. 70. Retrieved 8 January 2023. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  16. Alonzo E. Wilson, ed. (1910). American Prohibition Year Book, Volume 10. Lincoln Temperance Press. pp. 227–28. OCLC 1234602. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  17. "A Church Wedding. Two United Brethren Ministers Are to Be Married". The Sacramento Bee. 13 December 1893. p. 5. Retrieved 8 January 2023 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  18. "Wedding of Rev. Thomas J. Bauder and Rev. Emma Pow Smith, December 14, 1893, Sacramento, California". The Record-Union. 15 December 1893. p. 3. Retrieved 8 January 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. "Emma Pow Bauder". California, Oakland, Mountain View Cemetery Records, 1857–1973. 1932. p. 120. Retrieved 8 January 2023 – via Familysearch.
  20. Cassel, Flora Hamilton, ed. (1890). White Ribbon Vibrations (4 ed.). Woman's Christian Temperance Union Song Book Publishing Association. pp. 4–5, 28–29. OCLC 1206302132. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  21. Library of Congress. Copyright Office (1911). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical Compositions. Part 3. Library of Congress. p. 1021. OCLC 269169928.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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