Bio of BEYER, Carl (b.1878), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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CARL BEYER - Vol III, pg 546-547
In a short time a hospital will be opened in Minneapolis for those afflicted
with diabetes. Carl Beyer, who has made extensive investigations and studies of
this disease and who has discovered a cure for it, will be president and
director of the institution. He was born in Austria, on the 8th of August, 1878,
a son of Ernest and Anna Beyer, likewise natives of Austria. The father was in
the employ of the Austrian government all of his life. His demise occurred at
the age of sixty-three years.
The public schools of Austria afforded Carl Beyer his early education, but he
withdrew from school at the age of fourteen years. For about four years he was
employed in a commercial or general store, similar to the department stores in
this country, and then he commenced to travel, in search of a vocation suitable
for his life work. He traveled throughout Italy, visiting most of the large
cities in that country and visited other European countries. He was then
twenty-one years of age and about that time went to India, where he determined
to take up the study of medicine. He devoted a great deal of his time and
attention to the study of that profession until he was thirty years of age when,
it becoming necessary to supply himself with funds, he took up salesmanship and
sold advertising in various forms. In 1910 he came to America and finally
settled in Winnipeg, Canada. While there he became interested in the discovery
of a cure for diabetes, in association with a prominent physician and surgeon of
that country. During the World war Mr. Beyer came to Minneapolis and founded a
hospital for the cure of diabetes, which will soon be opened. He is president
and director of the institution.
In September, 1902, in London, England, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Beyer
and Miss Anna Spahn, a daughter of Henry Spahn of London. Her father was an
extensive contractor and a well known citizen of London. His death occurred at
the age of sixty-three years. Mrs. Beyer is a woman of much culture and
refinement. Mr. and Mrs. Beyer have one daughter, Carla, who is eighteen years
of age.
In his political views Mr. Beyer is a stanch supporter of the republican party,
having firm belief in the principles of that party as factors in good
government. His religious faith is that of the Lutheran church. Mr. Beyer is a
man of high intellectual attainments and is held in high confidence and esteem
by all who know him. His hobby is traveling and he has not only traveled
throughout America but has seen the greater part of Europe and the Orient.