Marin-San Francisco-Solano County CA Archives Biographies.....Mayer, Leopold 1850 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. Publishers (1880)

  Leopold Mayer. Was born in Baierthal, Wiesloch, Baden, December 15, 1850. At
ten years of age he entered the Burger school at Heidelberg which institution he
attended for four years, when he went to Ketsch, Baden, and entered a produce
store. Here he was employed for three years. He next accepted a situation in a
dry-goods store in Manheim, where he remained for one year, when he returned to
his native town, entered into the same business and there continued until 1870.
In February of that year he sailed for America, landed in New York City on the
25th, and three days later started overland for California. He first accepted a
situation as clerk in a clothing store in San Francisco, but after seven months
proceeded to Suisun, Solano county, where he was employed by W. Cerkel; at the
end of eighteen months he resigned on account of failing health and returned to
San Francisco, where he worked for two years in a wholesale and retail store ;
sixteen months more he passed as traveling salesman for a cigar house; he then
went to Tulare, and was employed in a general store for eighteen months, and in
1876 commenced business on his own account at Sutter Creek, which he continued
until 1878, when, in September of that year, he came to San Rafael and purchased
the business of Mantel & Co., and established himself therein. Married, December
1, 1878, Babette Marks, a native of Baden, born October 15, 1856, by whom he has
one child, Florence, born October 6, 1879.

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HISTORY OF MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;
INCLUDING ITS
Geography, Geology, Topography and Climatography;
TOGETHER WITH
A Full and Particular Record of the Mexican Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the most Authentic Sources; Names of Original Spanish
and American Pioneers;

A Full Record of its Organization; A Complete Political History, including a
Tabular Statement of Office-holders since the Formation of the County;

Separate Histories of Bolinas, Nicasio, Novato, Point Reyes, San Antonio, San
Rafael, Saucelito, and Tomales Townships;

Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Biographical Sketches of its Early and Prominent
Settlers and Representative Men;
ALSO
An Historical Sketch of the State of California,
In which is embodied the Raising of the Bear Flag

ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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