Character Sheet
Name: Michael “Little Mickey” Bauer
Age: 38
Ethnicity: German
Occupation/Place in the Combination: Saloon Owner
Personal History
Michael Bauer is the son of Otto and Felicie Bauer, the owner of a saloon he inherited his from his father, and the oldest of seven siblings. He was born in Germany, in the Grand Duchy of Baden. His family participated in the Baden Revolution, one of the uprising that was part of the greater Revolutions of 1848, and Michael was ten years old at the time. After the uprising was crushed, his family, like many other German revolutionaries, immigrated to the United States, making him one of the Forty-Eighters.
After living a while in New York, his family moved westward to lands they deemed more attractive. They ended up in Central City. Michael’s father Otto ended up opening a saloon with the aid of the Combination. Michael fought in the American Civil War, first under Fremont then under Grant, returning with the rank of master sergeant. His father died in 1866, and Michael, as the eldest son, took over his father’s position as owner of the saloon.
In 1859, he married Carolin Hirsch, a fellow German Catholic Forty-Eighter. With her, he’s begun to raise a family. She gave birth to a son, Gerold, in 1860, a daughter, Adelheid, in 1867, a son, Fritz, in 1869, another daughter, Georgina, in 1872, and is currently pregnant with their fifth child. He has been a loyal low-ranking member of the Combination, using his position as Saloon Owner to induce people, especially poor immigrants, to vote in line with the political machine.