Adèle Bayer (née Parmentier; 4 July 1814 – 22 January 1892) was a philanthropist who was active in both missionary work to Native Americans and seafarers missions.
[1] Adèle Bayer was the eldest daughter of Andrew Parmentier (born at Enghien, Belgium, July 3, 1780, and died in Brooklyn, New York, November 26, 1830), a horticulturist and civil engineer.
[1] After the death of Andrew Parmentier, his daughter Adèle and her mother (Sylvia M., born in Louvain, Belgium, 1793; died in Brooklyn, New York, April 27, 1882), carried on his Botanical and Horticultural Gardens until 1832, when they were sold.
Adèle was married, September 8, 1841, to Edward Bayer, a German Catholic merchant (d. 3 Feb., 1894), at the first nuptial Mass celebrated in Brooklyn.
During the Civil War Madame Bayer began caring for the spiritual and temporal wants of the sailors at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a work to which she devoted the remainder of her life.