Arizona republican., 1910-07-21
AGED CALIFORNIAN
 WELL KNOWN HERE
Death of the Father of the Sugar Beet
 Industry on the Coast.

EbeneZer H. Dyer. a pioneer of Cali l fornia, father of the beet sugar indus try in the state and a brother in law
 of Surveyor General F. s. Ingalls, of 1 Arizona, died at his home near Al varado. Cal. on July l5. He has a grand nephew by the name of Roy valley, being in charge of the ma
 chinery at the sugar beet factory at { Glendale. General Ingalls,, speaking af MT. Dyer yesterday said he was SS years old and had played an important part in the development of California The general remembers the occasion
 of MT. Dyer's bringing the first con | sgnment of sugar beet seed to Cali .ornia. having been with him on it's
 arrival in San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle in a biographical sketch says in part as follows:
 Born in Hancock county. Maine. in 1922, of parents who traced their de- scent for more than a century back
 through sturdy New England pioneers.
 his grandfather Ephraim Dyer, having
 taken an active part in the revolution,
 Ebenezer Dyer spent his boyhood in his native town, Sullivan, until lS43,
 when he went to Baltimore and en-
 gagged in th0 lumber and stone busi-
 ness. Suffering a financial loss in 1857
 he decided to go west and arrived in
 San Francisco in May The following
 year he returned to Sullivan, married
 Marion w. Ingalls,, and then came back
 to Alvarado with his brother, Ephraim
 engaging in the sheep business.
 Dyer soon drifted into politics and,
 after serving two terms as surveyor of Alameda county. was appointed dep
 uty United States surveyor in 1861, which office he held for twelve years. IL was during his travels over his ter
 ritOry, which included the states of California and Nevada, that he ac- quired extensive land holdings, to- gether with D. O. Mills and Governor Stanford.
 IL was in the latter part of the eos that he first evolved the idea of the sugar beet industry in the west After forming two companies which failed. he organized the well-known Alameda Sugar company, which has continued the parent company to the present day. In the 70s he decided to establish sugar beet refineries wherever they Ntit dIltT NlluuTdNlnS from the management of the Alameda | company, established five more plants l under his own supervision.
 Dyer then opened headquarters in | Cleveland. Ohio, and there trained a | corps of young men. who have since | established plants as follows: Two in | Utah. one in Colorado. two in Canada, | one in Minnesota two in Idaho, two in | Michigan and one in California. His | son, Edward F. Dyer, and nephew. Harold Dyer, made the first complete drawings for a suger refinery, and later | spent many years in visiting refineries | in Europe to improve the Dyer plants.
 After his first wife's death in 1863, several years later her sister, Miss Olive Ingalls,. by whom he also had three children. Dyer owned more than 1 900 acres in Alameda and Orange in addition to his interests in the sugar refineries. Of his sons, Hugh Dyer is superintendent of the ogden Edward Dyer is head of the of refineries. and Guy T. Dyer is in charge of building new plants.
 lie was an active republican since he organization of the party here in 1876. and in 1878 was a delegate to the national convention. He had been re- siding quietly in his home for several FearS |