Sixth of the nine children of Jacob Ludwig and Catherine Pfluge Sauer. He went to the Black Hills of North Dakota during the Gold Rush there then relocated to Omaha, NE where in 1879 he married Alice Marion Van Aernam, the daughter of his landlord. He became a real estate developer in Omaha and owned a roofing company there. After a collapse of the real estate market he began writing for the Omaha Bee newspaper and became its editor. In 1896 he brought his family, which included Alice and their three surviving children, to California where he was a manager of the Hotel Del Coronado on Coronado Island (specifically of its large and popular tent city) before purchasing the San Diego Herald newspaper, becoming its editor and publisher. A colorful and often controversial journalist and an early progressive and leftist sympathizer, Sauer never hesitated to speak his mind plainly, a trait that often brought him into court and prompted numerous threats of bodily harm. He died on his 82nd birthday and remains to this day a notable figure in the history of San Diego.
Sixth of the nine children of Jacob Ludwig and Catherine Pfluge Sauer. He went to the Black Hills of North Dakota during the Gold Rush there then relocated to Omaha, NE where in 1879 he married Alice Marion Van Aernam, the daughter of his landlord. He became a real estate developer in Omaha and owned a roofing company there. After a collapse of the real estate market he began writing for the Omaha Bee newspaper and became its editor. In 1896 he brought his family, which included Alice and their three surviving children, to California where he was a manager of the Hotel Del Coronado on Coronado Island (specifically of its large and popular tent city) before purchasing the San Diego Herald newspaper, becoming its editor and publisher. A colorful and often controversial journalist and an early progressive and leftist sympathizer, Sauer never hesitated to speak his mind plainly, a trait that often brought him into court and prompted numerous threats of bodily harm. He died on his 82nd birthday and remains to this day a notable figure in the history of San Diego.
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