U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mayer, George A. (1859-1923) ------------------------------------------------------------------- History of Tucker County, West Virginia From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements to the Present Time. by Hu Maxwell Kingwood, W. Va.; Preston Publishing Company, 1884. Pages 446-447 George A. Mayer, one of the leading merchants of Tucker County, was born in Preston (Aurora) 1859, and is a son of C. W. Mayer, of Terra Alta. In 1880 he was married to Virginia Cox, of New Waterford, Ohio. Their child's name is Charles W. He attended the district schools most convenient to his home, and had the benefit of a ten-month term at the Piedmont high school. He taught three schools, the first at William Fansler's in Preston, the second at Red Oak, Kingwood District, and the third in Kingwood, assisting Prof. Fike in the normal school. When he quit teaching, he went into the mercantile business in the firm of C. W. Mayer & Son, in 1879, and set up in St. George. In 1884 he dissolved partnership with his father, and went into business under the firm name of Mayer & Cupp, in which his brother-in-law was his partner. When he came to Tucker there was no mercantile business of note carried on in the county. Prices were high and uncertain, and the trade was very unsteady. He brought the prices down, and revolutionized the whole trade. In 1881 he built a large store and ware rooms on Main street. In 1884 he was nominated in the Democratic convention, at St. George, as a candidate for clerk of the circuit court. He is a young man of stirring business qualities. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Register of Deaths, Mercer County, WV (1923) (Line No. 3) FULL-NAME: George Albert Mayer DEATH-DATE: March 27, 1923 DEATH-PLACE: Bluefield CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Apoplexy AGE-AT-DEATH: 63y-3m-6d OCCUPATION: Retired MARITAL-STATUS: Married INFORMANT: J. F. Fox, M.D. (wife of George A. Mayer) From Death Certificate, Mercer County, WV #8867 FULL-NAME: Mrs. Virginia B. Mayer BIRTH-DATE: November 25, 1860 BIRTH-PLACE: Richmond, Va. DEATH-DATE: July 14, 1933 (at age 72y-7m-20d_ DEATH-PLACE: St. Luke Hospital, Bluefield, Mercer County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widow (G. A. Mayer) FATHER: James Cox (born in Ireland) MOTHER: Beatrice Deveney (born in New Orleans) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Pellagra INFORMANT: J. E. Mayer (of Bluefield, W.Va.) BURIAL: Bluefield, W.Va. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Tucker County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/tucker/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------