Imperial County, CA Biographies

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, January, 2007.

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AUGUST MAYER
 
                    Ambition is what makes this wide old world such a habitable 
place to live in. Ambition is what gave to August Mayer, the subject of this 
review, a desire to achieve a worthy object, which culminated in the forty-acre 
ranch which Mayer now owns in Water Company No. 8, in the Westmoreland District. 
In the year 1909, on the 25th day of December, to be exact, August Mayer came to 
Imperial County, and he has never regretted the impulse which started him in the 
direction of the highly productive fields of this county, as success, with all 
its smiling attributes, has come to the man whose history is chronicled in this 
sketch. August Mayer was born in Germany, November 26, 1882, and came to this 
country in the year 1907, having received his early education in his native 
land, leaving school at the age of 14 years. With stalwart perseverance and a 
determination to make good despite overwhelming odds, Mr. Mayer cast a stern eye 
about him for some logical undertaking which he might pursue advantageously and 
which in the end would make him a livelihood worthy of his station in life. 
Being of strong physique, Mr. Mayer found work in the ranches for two years in 
various parts, and upon his arrival in Imperial County rented his present 
holding and later bought from the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. Mayer 
has constructed a comfortable dwelling of pretentious design on his property, 
where he lives with his family. At present, Mr. Mayer is engaged in general 
farming, and each year harvests his crops with the knowledge that the financial 
returns far exceed his expectations. He has had splendid success in the way of 
raising alfalfa and livestock of a high grade. Mr. Mayer was married at El 
Centro, California, May 25, 1914, to Miss Marie Hora of Bohemia. They have one 
son, Eugene George, born in the north end, May 29, 1916. A glance over the ranch 
of Mr. Mayer convinces one that it has been primarily through hard and 
conscientious work that he has made the marked progress which is noted there.
 
Source: "The History of Imperial County, California," Elms and Franks Publ. Co., 
1918, pp. 435-436.