BIO: T. Franklin BAYER, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 74.
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  T. FRANKLIN BAYER, Huntingdon, Pa., is a native of Franklin county, Pa., 
born in Antrim township, April 1, 1863.  His parents were John N. and Mary 
E. (Miller) Bayer, both natives of Washington county, Md., and both 
deceased.  The family is of German descent.  It was about 1863 that Mr. John 
N. Bayer, who was a miller, removed to Franklin county.  He was quiet and 
unassuming in manner, but he was a good man, and a useful citizen.  The 
children of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Bayer are:  Sarah, Catherine, who died at the 
age of sixteen; John, died when four years old; David B., of Bloom Centre, 
Logan county, Ohio; Joseph M., of Baltimore, Md.; Adam M., of Gretna, Logan 
count, Ohio; Margaret Jane, residing with her brother, T. Franklin; and T. 
Franklin.
  Until he was seventeen years old, T. F. Bayer remained at home, and 
attended the public schools of his native county.  His first business 
engagement after leaving school was as salesman in the grocery store of his 
brother, Joseph M. Bayer, at Hagerstown, Md., with whom, four years later, 
he became a partner.  At the end of two years, T. Franklin purchased his 
brother's interest and conducted the business by himself until 1890.  He 
then sold the establishment to its former proprietor, his brother, Joseph 
M., and removed to Cumberland, Md.  There, in partnership with D. F. 
Grennawalt, under the firm name Grennawalt & Bayer, he embarked in the 
wholesale notion business, and continued in this connection for two years.  
In 1892 he sold his interest in this business, returned to Hagerstown, and 
purchased the interest of A. B. Barnhart, of the firm Barnhart & Sons, 
general merchants.  The firm name was now changed to Barnhart & Bayer, which 
partnership lasted two years.  In 1894 Mr. Bayer sold his interest to Frank 
E. Elliott, removed to Huntingdon, and engaged in the wholesale grocery 
business, the first enterprise of this kind in Huntingdon.  His partner was 
Lloyd M. Kepler, and the firm name Bayer & Kepler.  On October 1, 1895, Mr. 
Kepler sold his interest to John G. Beaver, and the name of the firm has 
since been Bayer & Beaver.  Mr. Bayer is a member of the Royal Arcanum and 
of the Mystic Circle.  His political views are Republican.  Mr. Bayer ranks 
among the leading business men of the borough.
  T. Franklin Bayer has been twice married.  His first wife, to whom he was 
united at Hagerstown, December 4, 1885, was Elizabeth M., daughter of 
Abraham B. and Hannah M. Barnhart.  They had a son and a daughter, Fred B. 
and M. Elizabeth.  Mrs. Bayer died April 14, 1889.  Mr. Bayer's second 
marriage took place at Cumberland, November 30, 1892, to Mary E., daughter 
of John W. and Isabella Shaffer, of Cumberland, Md.  They have no children.  
Mr. and Mrs. Bayer are members of the Reformed church.