MICHAEL BEYER.
Michael Beyer, well known as a successful business man of Morton, was born in New York in 1869, and received his education in the public schools. Later he engaged in the machinery business, continuing in that line for ten years, and subsequently conducting a livery business for five years. He then established an implement store, handling buggies, wagons, and a full line of farm implements and tools, and has developed a large and lucrative trade.
Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Tazewell County - page 979