Leon Dyer
Leon Dyer (born October 9, 1807 in Alzey , † September 14, 1883 in Louisville ) was an American colonel .
As a child he moved from Germany to Baltimore with his parents . He began his professional life in his father's company, who was the first to set up a beef packaging company in the USA. On a business trip to New Orleans in 1836, he learned that a war of independence had broken out in Texas . He spontaneously decided to stand by the Texans and embarked with a few hundred citizens from New Orleans on a schooner for Galveston , where he arrived two days after the Battle of San Jacinto . Dyer later took part in the Second Seminole War against Osceola , leader of the Seminoles , under the command of General Winfield Scott . In the Mexican War of 1848 he was named a war hero. In the same year he moved to California and settled in San Francisco , where he founded the first Jewish community on the Pacific coast .
literature
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Volume II, page 88 (1927).
- Philo-Lexikon , 3rd edition, Berlin 1936, Col. 164.
Web links
- Jewish Heroes and Heroines in America
- Cyrus Adler, Henry Cohen: DYER, LEON. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
- Lynna Kay Shuffield: Major Leon Dyer - businessman, soldier, statesman. (PDF; 162 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dyer, Leon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American Colonel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 9, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alzey |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 14, 1883 |
| Place of death | Louisville |