| Show v WILT BUILT UP GREAT BUSINESS frederick mayer boot and shoe shob company a mon monument ament to gert german an thrift ind and industry that the key hey to real business success is often based on a sound principle rather than money is best beW illustrated bythe by the re production of the following biographical sketch of frederick mayor founder of the t e F manyer boot S bioc comp company iny rep reproduced 0 from froin an issue of df tho the german american national alliance frederick mayor mayer founder of the factories at milwaukee and seattle now bearing bear his name came to this country froin hesben darmstadt in may 1851 and immediately proceeded to milwaukee wisconsin where lie he entered the employ of at 11 II as a journeyman shoemaker the spirit that prompted him to seek his ma f fortune artune in in the noy neny world orld was eoon responsible for another change and alid in 1852 aryear a year later lie he embarked in business on lus his own accord making bahng boots agn and shoes to order as only a german ampre apprenticed aad artisan knows liow how subsequently a stock of goods E was carried cal ried and a retail business conducted buc ted until 1880 when the manufacture of slices shoes was engaged in at wholesale ta the trade in 1890 the business was waa well established the foundation firmly laid and the policy well determined froan franr that time on oil the growth was wore more rapid the capacity of the sent mayer foo factories tories ut at milwaukee ee and seattle is pali pair ler per day giving employment to an army of people eople I 1 peiying abing aying annually over six hundred bundre thousand doll dollars arr in wages and employing sixty five salesmen who travel 24 states in the interest of I 1 mayer 1 laver shoes frederick mayer died on march 10 16 1893 after building up a large and suc successful C bus business heis lieis succeeded by his sons george P mayer r fred J mayor mayer nid adam J mayer who by rigidly maintaining the policy 1 ian of tai the e founder have lave I 1 mcce eded in in tr bringing ng the business up to its present magnitude where here tN it stands as a monument of german thrift and industry |
