The three brothers all attended St. Louis public schools, and every summer the family rented a cabin in the Ozark Mountains, where the boys developed a life-long love of fishing and camping.
In June of 1911, after having completed his junior year at a St. Louis high school, Warren Baumgartner quit school and entered the workforce as a staff artist at a lithographic shop that produced newspaper advertising.
On June 19, 1915, Warren Baumgartner (age 21) married Sophia Haverkamp (age 18). She was born March 10, 1897, in St. Louis, and lived at 223 West Stein Street. She had left her schooling after completing the eighth grade. Her father was Frank Haverkamp (b. 1859), and her mother was Sophia Kendel (b. 1860). Both of her parents were German immigrants. Her father worked as an unskilled laborer.
After their wedding, the newlyweds left St. Louis and moved to Chicago where they lived at a lodging house at 4601 Michigan Avenue. Warren Baumgartner worked for the Lord & Thomas Advertising Agency in the Mallers Building on the southeast corner of Madison Street and Wabash Avenue.
In 1917, during the Great War, Warren Baumgartner (age 23) joined the navy. His draft registration card described him as tall, slender, with brown eyes and black hair.
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