Charles F. Mayer

Charles Frederick Mayer (1795-1864) was an American lawyer, Maryland state senator, and railroad director.

Charles' younger brother, Brantz Mayer (1809-1879), would become a diplomat like their father; in 1844, he founded the Maryland Historical Society.

[2] Wealthy by inheritance, Christian Mayer came to Baltimore as the representative of a large Amsterdam merchant house.

[3] In America, he increased his fortune as an East Indies ship owner and merchant, and also served his home country for five decades as Consul General of Württemberg.

[3] In 1838, he was a director of the Baltimore and Port Deposit Railroad, whose president was Lewis Brantz, his father's business partner.