Background
Dyer was born in Baldwin, rural Cumberland County, Maine to Isaac and Martha Osgood (Porter).
Dyer was born in Baldwin, rural Cumberland County, Maine to Isaac and Martha Osgood (Porter).
Harvard Law School; Bowdoin College.
He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College in 1878 and also graduated from Harvard Law School. He served as United States. District Attorney for Maine from 1890 to 1894 and from 1898 to 1906. A Republican, Dyer represented his hometown of Baldwin in the Maine House of Representatives.