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REV. GEORGE MAYER.

    Rev. George Mayer, pastor of the Evangelical Friedens church (Church of
Peace), at New Ulm, this county, is a native of Wisconsin, having been born on a
farm twenty-five miles northwest of Milwaukee, that state, October 11, 1857, son
of George and Julia (Mueller) Mayer, both natives of Germany, who came to the
United States after their marriage on February 20, 1851, and settled on the farm
above mentioned. George Mayer was a good farmer and prospered in his
undertakings. The quarter section on which he first settled he bought for two
dollars the acre. As he prospered he added to his holdings until he became the
owner of four hundred acres of well cultivated land. Before coming to this
country he had served in the German army. He and his wife were the parents of
five children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the only one living in
Brown county.

    George Mayer received his elementary education in the schools in the
neighborhood of his home and early determined to enter the gospel ministry. With
this end in view he entered Elmhurst College, from which he was graduated four
years later. Thus equipped by preparatory study, he entered the Evangelical
Theological Seminary at St. Louis and upon completing a three-years course
there, was ordained to the ministry on August 23, 1882, at Lenzburg, in St.
Clair county, Illinois. Even before his ordination, Rev. George Mayer had been
serving a church at Lenzburg and after his ordination was formally installed as
pastor of that church. He remained there until in December, 1883, at which time
he accepted a call to the church at Pana, Illinois, and was pastor of that
church until April 25, 1887. He then accepted a call to the churches at
Summerfield and Lebanon, in Illinois, and after a service of more than six years
in that double parish was called to St. John's Evangelical church at
Minneapolis, where he remained until 1906, in which year he accepted the call of
the congregation of the Evangelical Friedens church at New Ulm and has ever
since been serving as pastor of that parish, during which time he has performned
a fine service in the way of extending the interests of the church in both a
spiritual and a material way. In the year 1907 Reverend Mayer organized the
Evangelical Friedens church at Essig, Minnesota, where he holds services every
other Sunday. He also holds services at Nicollet, Minnesota, every other Sunday.

    On June 29, 1887, the Rev. George Mayer was united in marriage to Louise
Schlierbach and to this union seven children have been born, Alma Leona,
Rowland, G. L., Olga Anita, Leona V., George F., Laura, H. and Dorothy Evelyn.
The Rev. Mr. Mayer is an "independent" Republican and gives a good citizen's
attention to the political affairs of the county.


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HISTORY OF BROWN COUNTY MINNESOTA
ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS

L. A. FRITSCHE. M. D.
Editor

With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records
of Many of the Old Families

VOLUME II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana



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