Sonoma-Marin-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Mayer, August 1838 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Mayer, August. Born in Bavaria, Germany, November 22, 1838. In 1861 he came to
America, first settling in Jefferson county, New York. He remained here, with
the exception of a few months spent in New York city, until 1863, when he came,
via Panama, to California and located in Marin county, and engaged in the
dairying business until 1870. After spending one year in San Francisco, he came
to this county and settled on his present farm, comprising one thousand acres.
This was on November 1, 1871. In September, 1876, he visited the Centennial
Exposition, and from there went to Europe and all parts of the globe. June,
1878, found him again on his farm in this county, where he is at present
actively engaged in dairying, manufacturing about thirty thousand pounds of
cheese per annum, and thirteen thousand and two hundred pounds of butter.

Additional Comments:
Ocean Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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