Imperial County CA Archives Biographies.....Mayer, August 1882 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

AUGUST MAYER.—Ambition is what makes this wide old world such a habitable place
to live in. Ambition is what gave to August Mayer, the subject of this review, a
desire to achieve a worthy object, which culminated in the forty-acre ranch
which Mayer now owns in Water Company No. 8, in the Westmoreland district. In
the year 1909, on the 25th day of December, to be exact, August Mayer came to
Imperial County, and he has never regretted the impulse which started him in the
direction of the highly productive fields of this county, as success, with all
its smiling attributes, has come to the man whose history is chronicled in this
sketch. August Mayer was born in Germany, November 26, 1882, and came to this
country in the year 1907, having received his early education in his native
land, leaving school at the age of 14 years. With stalwart perseverance and a
determination to make good despite overwhelming odds, Mr. Mayer cast a stern eye
about him for some logical undertaking which he might pursue advantageously and
which in the end would make him a livelihood worthy of his station in life.
Being of strong physique, Mr. Mayer followed work on the ranches for two years
in various parts, and upon his arrival in Imperial County rented his present
holding and later bought from the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. Mayer
has constructed a comfortable dwelling of pretentious design on his property,
where he lives with his family. At present Mr. Mayer is engaged in general
farming, and each year harvests his crops with the knowledge that the financial
returns far exceed his expectations. He has had splendid success in the way of
raising alfalfa and livestock of a high grade. Mr. Mayer was married at El
Centro, California, May 25, 1914, to Miss Marie Hora of Bohemia. They have one
son, Eugene George, born in the north end, May 29, 1916. A glance over the ranch
of Mr. Mayer convinces one that it has been primarily through hard and
conscientious work that he has made the marked progress which is noted there.

Additional Comments:
From:

THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918


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