From GREATER WHEELING AND VICINITY
By Charles A. Winegerter, 1912; page 782.
     
Contributed by Linda Fluharty. 


     WILLIAM F. BAYHA - There is all of consistency in according in this 
publication recognition to Mr. Bayha, who has gained prestige as one of the 
representative business men of his native city, where he is secretary and 
treasurer of the Uneeda Brewing Company and secretary of the A. C. Bayha 
Company, which latter is engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. 
On other pages of this work is made specific mention of the brewing company, 
in the upbuilding of whose business Mr. Bayha has been a most influential 
factor. He is one of the progressive business men and public-spirited 
citizens of Wheeling, where he has a circle of friends that is essentially
coincident with that of his acquaintances.
     William Frederick Bayha was born in Wheeling, on the 5th of, March, 
1860, and is a son of David and Elizabeth S. (Koerner) Bayha. The mother 
still maintains her home in this city, where the father had long been an 
influential figure in business and civic affairs. He whose name initiates 
this review gained his early educational discipline in the excellent 
parochial school of St. James Evangelical Lutheran church, in Wheeling, and 
his earlier identification with local business interests was that of clerk 
and bookkeeper for various business concerns. In 1899 he engaged in the 
produce brokerage business, and he has been a successful factor in connection 
with this line of enterprise.  In 1901 he became one of the organizers and 
incorporators of the Uneeda Brewing Company, of which he was the first 
secretary. Of this office he has since continued the incumbent and since 
January, 1911, he has also been treasurer of the company. He is a popular 
factor in the social circles of his native city, where he is a charter member 
of the lodges of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Royal Arcanum. 
Though not active in connection with political affairs, he accords a staunch 
allegiance to the Demoratic party, and he is a representative member of St. 
James' German Evangelical Lutheran church, of which he is a vestryman and of 
which his wife was also a member. 
     Mr. Bayha married Miss Caroline Margaret Henke, daughter of William 
Henke, a representative citizen of Steubenville, Ohio, and the four children 
of this union are Albert William, Elwood David, Ethel May and Robert Russell. 
Mrs. Bayha died September 9, 1904.