A fine fellow personally, and an accomplished leader in community endeavor, is Charles Phillip Bayer, whose record of accomplishment for Pomona and the Valley is well known. He was born at Chicago, Ill., on November 4, 1888, the son of Phillip Bayer, a merchant prominent in business circles, who married Emma C. Margraf. Both parents, esteemed and mourned by many, are now dead.
Charles, the only child, was educated in the Hedrick, Iowa, grammar school and in 1906 graduated from the high school of that town. Pushing out into the world, he was for nine months with the Simmons Hardware Company of St. Louis, and then, because of poor health, he went to Texas for a short time and worked for the engineering department of the Santa Fe.
In 1907, Mr. Bayer, hearing of the attractions of Southern California, and convinced of the superior advantages of Pomona, came to this town, and for seven and a half years engaged in brokerage. His strong and winning personality from the beginning drew to him many friends, while his application of high standards of ethics to the transaction of business inspired confidence and increased his patronage.
On April 1, 1915, Mr. Bayer was elected assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and on April 1, 1917, secretary. In time, too, he was made secretary of the Commercial Secretaries' Association of California and secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the San Gabriel Valley. Now he lectures daily in the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce on the resources and attractions of the Pomona Valley.
Mr. Bayer was a member of the National Guard of the State of California for seven years, and first sergeant of Headquarters Company, Seventh California Infantry; and he was honorably discharged on the Mexican border during the late trouble there. Perhaps this military experience has had something to do with Mr. Bayer's love of the mountains and fondness for outdoor life.
On March 28, 1910, Mr. Bayer was married to Miss Florence C. MacIntyre. Mrs. Bayer, who is an accomplished musician, was secretary of the Ebell Club. One child blessed the union—Charles Donald. Mr. Bayer is a Republican in national politics, but a genuine "booster" without partisanship in local affairs. He is secretary of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of San Gabriel Valley, also of the California Association of Commercial Secretaries.
History of Pomona Valley, California, with Biographical Sketches
of The Leading Men and Women of the Valley Who Have Been
Identified With Its Growth and Development from the Early Days
to the Present
Published in Los Angeles, Cal., by the Historic Record Company
1920
Transcribed by Linda Jackson 12/26/08, Pages 742-743
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