From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 217.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.


SIMON BAER

Simon Baer,deceased, the subject of this sketch, was one of 
Wheeling's most prominent and extensive wholesalers, and was the 
founder of the mammoth house of Simon Baer's Sons, which is decidedly 
the lagest wholesale grocery and coffee-rasting establishment in West 
Virginia, doing a larger volume of business than any grocery house in 
the state and equaling that of the larger houses of Pittsburgh and 
othercities west of the Allegheny mountains.  Simon Baer was born in 
Stebbach, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, in 1813, emigrated to the 
United States in 1866, and died in Wheeling in 1884.  Upon his 
arrival in this city in 1866, Mr. Baer at once engaged in business, 
purchasing the wholesale grocery house of Simon Harkheimer, his 
brother-in-law.  He continued in business by himself, meeting with 
success, until 1876, when he admitted his son Benjamin into the 
business, the firm name becoming that of Simon Baer & Son.  In 1880, 
Marcus and Bernhart, two other sons, were admitted, and the firm name 
became Simon Baer & Sons.  Upon the death of Benjamin Baer in 1884, 
the above firm was dissolved, Mr. Simon Baer retiring from business, 
immediately the firm of "Simon Baer's Sons" was formed by Henry, 
Marcus and Bernhard Baer, and to this firm Ernest Baer was admitted 
in 1889. 

See "Simon Baer's Sons."


(Linda Fluharty)