Hon. Edward D. Mayer Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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Surname: MAYER
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 777

     HON. EDWARD D. MAYER, police judge of Exeter, N. H., in which
office he has served for the past eighteen months, was born in Kingston, N. Y.,
September 30, 1878, a son of John M. and Fredericka (Messinger) Mayer.
His parents were natives of Germany who came to America when children.

Page 778 

They were married at Kingston, where both now reside, the father being a
wagon manufacturer by occupation. The latter when only ten years old began
industrial life in a brick yard, working five years without pay, the first recom-
pense he received being a lot and lumber enough to build a blacksmith shop.
This he received when he was eighteen years old, and it was his first start in
life. He subsequently built up a good business and has since enjoyed unin-
terrupted prosperity. He and his wife were the parents of a large family of
ten children, all of whom they reared and educated. They were as follows:
Theodore; John; Mary, wife of John Hildedrand, a ship builder at Kingston;
Jennie, wife of John Metzler, a contractor and builder in New York City;
Matilda, wife of Prof. Adolph Schablin, a professor of the German language;
Theresa, the widow of Robert Griffith, a grain dealer; Amelia, wife of Doug-
las Halstead, a hardware-merchant in New York; Edith and Alice, residing
at home with their parents, and Edward D., the subject of this sketch. The
two oldest sons, Theodore and John, are manufacturers of New York City.
     Edward D. Mayer attended grammar and high school at Kingston and
subsequently became a student at Muhlenberg College, at Allentown, Pa.,
being graduated therefrom in the class of 1900. He studied law under Judge
G. D. B. Hasbroack, then judge of the Court of Claims and now judge of the
Supreme Court of Third Judicial Department of New York State. Having
subsequently attended a New York law school, he was admitted to the bar in
1904, and began the practice of his profession in New York City, where
he remained two years, after which he came to Exeter. Here he has made an
excellent record and is recognized as a man of more than ordinary ability,
either at the bar or on the bench. He is a member of Star in the East Lodge,
No. 59, A. F. & A. M., which he is serving as junior deacon, and belongs
also to the Odd Fellows, the Royal Arcanum, and the American Foresters.
     Judge Mayer was married in 1904 to Miss Amelia Van Vliet, a native
of Matteawan, N. Y., and daughter of Theodore and Caroline (Allen) Van
Vliet, both deceased. Mrs. Mayer's parents were born in Dutchess County,
N. Y.; her father was treasurer of the Matteawan Manufacturing Company
at the time of his death in November, 1913, an office he had held for forty
years. They have two children--Amelia, who is now Mrs. Mayer, and
Charles T. Mr. and Mrs. Mayer are the parents of a son, Loyd Van Vliet
Mayer. They attend the Congregational church and are popular members of
Exeter society. A man of broad mind and sound business sense, Judge Mayer
stands high as a citizen and his opinion is often sought when any project is
afoot for the improvement of local conditions, whether material or moral.