Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Mayer, H. C. 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    H. C. MAYER, merchant and member of the Board of Trustees of Ocean Park, is
a native of Henderson, the county seat of Henderson County, Kentucky. His
father, Jacob F. Mayer, was a successful farmer. His grandfather, George A.
Meyer, settled in Kentucky as early as 1831, and was an expert gunsmith, which
business he acquired from his father, who made guns for the continental army
during the Revolutionary War. Jacob F. Mayer married Lucy Bond, whose ancestors
were patriots of the Revolutionary days and associates of the family of George
Washington. She died in Kentucky at about forty years of age, survived by the
husband and four children.

    Mr. Mayer received his education in a private school and later graduated
from the Henderson Public High School, and subsequently pursued a special course
of study at the University of Chicago. He then entered the employ of the well
known hardware house of Hibbard, Spencer & Company, Chicago. He worked in all
departments of the business and finally became traveling salesman, covering the
field in Oregon and Washington. He later resigned his position and located in
Los Angeles, entered business on his own account, and did a successful business
at 537 South Broadway. In February, 1905, Mr. Mayer disposed of this business,
removed to Venice and has since been identified with the commercial and civic
growth of that city.

    At the city election of 1908, Mr. Mayer was elected a member of the Board of
Trustees of Ocean Park, and is a member of the Committee on Public Works, Fire
and Police, Lighting and the Legal committee. He is secretary and treasurer of
the Venice Shoe Mfg. Co., and one of the founders of this enterprise which is
the first of its kind on the southern coast.

    Mr. Mayer married, at Henderson, Kentucky, Miss Sarah Bradshaw, a member of
an old Kentucky family, and they have one child, a daughter, Sarah Louise.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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