C. H. Dyer

    C. H. Dyer, justice of the peace, is a native of Maine, but was reared and educated at Boston, Mass. At the commencement of hostilities between the North and South he enlisted in the Boston Light Artillery, and was mustered out at Burlington, N. Y. In the year 1864 he was united in marriage to Miss Adda Francisco, a native of New Orleans, to whom four children have been born. In the year 1870 our subject and family removed to Tennessee and settled in Chattanooga, where Mr. Dyer followed his trade, being a mechanic and builder. During the years 1876 and 1877 he was engaged in the coal trade, and later was in the agricultural implement trade until his election to his present office in 1880. He was a member of the board of mayor and aldermen in 1883. His parents, David B. and Catherine (Bryant) Dyer, were natives of Maine, but the father was reared in Vermont. They afterward moved to Massachusetts, where the mother's death occurred in 1876.
Goodspeed's History of Tennessee 1887