Kings County Biographies


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MAYER, JAMES B.
 
     From a land of long, frigid winters to a land of winters short and summery 
came the subject of this notice about the first of October, 1907. How well he 
has prospered here and how much he has done for the prosperity of his community 
is well known to business circles throughout Kings county, Cal. James B. Mayer, 
president of the First National Bank of Corcoran, was born in Superior, Wis., 
March 21, 1863. When he was about ten years old his father moved onto a timbered 
farm in northern Minnesota and he soon became well-known there, not only as a 
farmer, but as lumberman, merchant and banker. Here young Mayer grew up to young 
manhood. He had begun his studies at the public schools of Superior, continued 
them in Minnesota and took a special course at the Curtis Business College of 
Minneapolis. 
 
     At the age of twenty-four he became the deputy county recorder at Carlton 
county, Minn., in which position his pleasing personality made him a favorite of 
the general public. His next venture was in the general merchandise business and 
it was while thus engaged he married Miss Nettie E. Hayes of Thomson, Minn., 
November 4, 1879. The felicity of this union was broken, however, by the death 
of his wife, which occurred at Floodwood, Minn., February 24, 1905, leaving him 
a son and daughter, Mildred, aged nineteen, and Jay, aged seventeen years.  
 
     Other interests than banking engage Mr. Mayer�s attention. He is secretary 
of the Corcoran Gas & Water Company, which he helped to organize in 1908, when 
it took over the Security Land & Loan Company, and has since provided an ample 
supply of good water for the needs of the growing town of Corcoran. He is also 
associated as stockholder in the Corcoran Land Company, also in the Los Angeles 
Suburban Homes Company. Fraternally he affiliates with the Masons and Odd 
Fellows. Socially he is in favor with all who know him and politically he is 
active in the promotion of all that he deems best for the general good. 
 
SOURCE:  History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical 
Sketches - Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913
Pp 511, 512
Transcribed by: Craig A Hahn