Anton Bargaehr
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Son of Abraham and Johanna Enger Bargaehr.
Married Maria Marugg on March 9, 1889 in Switzerland. They were the parents of 13 children. Two daughters and two sons died in Switzerland: Maria (1890-1891), Martha (1897-1897), Nikolaus (1895-1906), and Joseph (1906-1906).
The family lived in a small home in St. Margrethen right on the Swiss-Austiran border.
In Switzerland, Anton worked as a contractor and helped build the Capitol Building in Bern, and served as the mayor of St. Margrethen near the turn of the century.
Anton and Maria immigrated to the United States in 1908 with their 9 surviving children, ranging from ages 17 to just a few months old. They came directly to Salt Lake City, Utah and made their home there.
In 1914, his wife Maria died of pneumonia at the age of 46. Anton married Maria Kaminsky on November 20, 1915.
Anton was a stone cutter by trade. In 1924, he had been out of work in Salt Lake City for some time, so on March 18, 1924, he decided to walk from Salt Lake City to Ogden in the hopes of finding work at the Union depot. Just outside of Salt Lake, a passing motorist stopped to give him a ride in his car.
Along the way, the front tire blew out, causing the car to veer off the road into a ditch and overturn. Anton, the only one seriously injured in the crash, was rushed to the local police station and then Dee Hospital in Ogden. He died later that night from his injuries, at the age of 64.
He was buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery on March 23, 1924, next to his first wife.
Located in the Salt Lake Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah.
