The family migrated to Hiawatha, Kansas in 1865, where young Bierer was raised and graduated from high school.
Moving to Garden City, Kansas, he built up a law practice (Brown, Bierer and Cotteral) and married Miss Nannie Stamper in 1888.
He then established the law firm Bierer and Cotteral, which became noted for the number of its members who went on to occupy high judicial positions.
[5][b] Bierer himself was appointed an associate justice of the Oklahoma Territory Supreme Court in 1894, for a term ending in 1898.
[5] [c] James R. Keaton, who succeeded Bierer as head of the law firm, was also appointed to the Supreme Court in 1896.
[d] Unsure what to do with this man who was ready to defend his business with fisticuffs, the group apparently left without the audit it had demanded.