Joseph P. Dyer

Joseph Palmer Dyer was an American politician of California, mine superintendent and stockbroker.

Biography

He was born in Vinalhaven, Maine, the son of George Dyer and Jane Pendleton. Dyer was the mayor of Sacramento, California, in 1857.
He was married on October 4, 1853, in Rockport, Maine, to Deborah Hatheway Curtis They had the following children, all born in California: Alice C. Dyer ; Jennie Dyer ; Joseph B. Dyer ; Ralph Dyer ; Ruth Barstow Dyer ; and Mary Stackpole Dyer.
While his family lived in Woburn, Massachusetts, in 1870, Dyer was in Mariposa, California, working as a superintendent of a mine. In 1880, they were all together in Oakland, and Dyer was a stockbroker.
Joseph P. Dyer died at age 64 in Sacramento.