27 march 1921 – Facts About Sugar, April 23, 1921, p.335
GUY SAWYER DYER DEAD
News is received of the death at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 27, after an illness of two weeks, of Guy Sawyer Dyer, one of the pioneer beet sugar men of the United States.
Mr. Dyer was the son of E. H. Dyer, one of the founders of the American beet sugar industry, and a brother of Edward F. Dyer, president of the Dyer Company. He was himself associated with the sugar industry almost from its beginning, getting his first experience at the Alvarado, California, factory shortly after graduating from the University of California. He was subsequently chemist of the Lehi, Utah, factory during its first campaign, in 1890, and later became its superintendent. Still later he was superintendent of the Los Alamitos, California, factory at the beginning of its history and afterwards of a factory at Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario.
Developing new enterprises, in fact, was Mr. Dyers principal occupation and this line of work eventually took him afield to Australia, to take charge of the then moribund Maffra factory for the Australian government. He remained at Maffra five years, during which period the factory was brought to a prosperous condition and then travelled in New Zealand, Java, Egypt, and other sugar producing countries. His last connection with the industry was as manager of the foreign department of the Dyer Company, of which he had charge up to the time of his death.
A capable and experienced sugar engineer and a man with a wide acqaintance in the sugar industry, Mr. Dyer leaves a large circle of friends.