Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Bayer, Carl May 16, 1884 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: J. Orr orr@hawaii.com October 28, 2009, 7:51 pm Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by the Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925 Author: Edited by Geroge F. Nellist CARL BAYER, Merchant. Carl Bayer is one of the young men who came to Honolulu from Germany to enter the employ of the former H. Hackfeld & Co., who rose to commercial eminence in the islands, his present position being manager of the Hawaiian Sugar Co. store at Makaweli, Kauai. Born at Waldkirch, Germany, May 16, 1884, he is the son of August and Bertha (Ruff) Bayer. After receiving his early education privately, he attended the public and high schools and then had seven years at Real College, Waldkirch, and a business course at Ouchy, Switzerland. He came to Honolulu in 1901 to join H. Hackfeld & Co. After seven years of service with this firm in Honolulu, he was appointed manager of the Hutchinson Sugar plantation store at Naalehu, Hawaii. He toured Europe in 1910 and upon his return to the Islands accepted the managership of the Hawaiian Sugar Co. store at Makaweli, Kauai, where he has since remained. Mr. Bayer was among those who were instrumental in the organization of the Kauai Chamber of Commerce and was chosen a director of that organization for the first two years. He married Florence Marguerite Gurrey at San Francisco on July 1, 1915, and they have one son, Walter Gurrey Bayer. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/bayer140bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/hifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb