Albert R. Beyer Biography


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				ALBERT R. BEYER. 

	Albert R. Beyer, business manager of the Minnehaha Creamery 
Company of Mobridge, was born in Edgewood, Iowa, on the 15th of June, 
1887, a son of Henry F. and Alma (Fenner) Beyer, both natives of 
Clayton county, Iowa. The paternal grandfather, William Beyer, became a 
resident of that county in 1845, removing to the west from Pennsylvania 
and was among the earliest of Iowa's pioneer citizens. The maternal 
grandfather arrived in Clayton county soon after the Beyer family and 
was one of the founders of the town of Edgewood, where Henry F. Beyer 
still makes his home. He was for about thirty years identified with 
merchandising there and was also actively connected with the creamery 
business and with farming interests and was, in fact, prominent in 
business circles in many ways, his efforts being a potent force in the 
substantial upbuilding and improvement of the district. He is the 
present mayor of the city and is the treasurer of the board of trustees 
of the Upper Iowa University at Fayette. Clayton county numbers him 
among its most valued residents and honors him for what he has 
accomplished in his own behalf and for the public good. 

	Albert R. Beyer, spending his youthful days under the parental 
roof, completed a course in the Edgewood high school, from which he was 
graduated with the class of 1901. Subsequently he entered the 
Northwestern University and is numbered among its alumni of 1907, in 
which year the Bachelor of Science degree was conferred upon him His 
standing is also indicated in the fact that he was elected to 
membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Following his graduation he returned home 
and for a year acted as secretary for his father in connection with his 
various business enterprises. He then identified himself with the Otis 
Elevator Company, operating both in Chicago and Moline, but after about 
a year he returned home and again became an active factor in the 
control and management of his father's extensive interests. In 1913 he 
arrived in Mobridge and with previous experience along that line he 
established the Minnehaha Creamery Company, of which he is the general 
manager and which is today regarded as one of the most important 
industries of the town, its business growing rapidly in volume and 
importance. The company conducts a wholesale ice cream business and 
furnishes the nearest market for the large dairy interests west of the 
Missouri river. Mr. Beyer understands every phase of the business, 
carefully directs its policy and has so managed its interests that the 
enterprise is now a most substantial concern. 

	Fraternally Mr. Beyer is connected with Avalon Lodge, No. 606, A. 
E. & A. M., of Edgewood and he is a member of the United church of 
Mobridge. In politics he is a republican, conversant with the questions 
and issues of the day, but is not an office seeker. He is preeminently 
a business man, alert, determined, enterprising, and his success is 
attributable in large measure to his recognition and prompt utilization 
of opportunities.