Albert L. Myer (14 November 1846 – 16 July 1914) was a soldier in the United States Army from 1865 to 1912, and interim Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1899 starting on 12 September. He filled as interim mayor of the city after the forced resignation of popularly elected mayor Luis Porrata-Doria. Early years Albert Lee Myer was born 14 November 1846, in Troy, New York, to Lt. Col. Aaron B. Myer and Julia A. Myer. Myer went to school in the public education system of Troy. His father was a member of the 125th Regiment of the New York State Volunteer Infantry which was organized at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. The 125th participated in the Battle of the Wilderness. On May 8, 1863, his father died of the wounds which he received in action during the battle. On 15 June 1870 he married Wilhelmina Henderson. The couple had two sons, George Henderson Myer and Eagar Myer, both who would eventually join the military. George Henderson Myer, his oldest son, died in 1891, while attending West Point. He was buried in the grounds of the academy. Military career Myer enlisted in the United States Army as a private in 1865, and was assigned to Company F, 3rd Battalion, 11th Infantry. In 1868, he took part in the Reconstruction of the South. While participating in the Reconstruction, he was briefly kidnapped and later released by the Ku Klux Klan. During the U.S. Indian Wars, Myer served in the territory of Arizona as an acting Indian agent in the San Carlos Agency and as a captain in the 11th Infantry in 1896. In April 1898, he was transferred with the Eleventh Infantry from Fort Whipple in Arizona to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri. The Eleventh Infantry left Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, 19 April 1898, then to a training camp near Mobile, Alabama, via Chickamauga, and on to Tampa, Florida arriving 7 June, for transport to Puerto Rico. On 12 December 1898, he landed in Guanica with the 11th Infantry as part of the invading forces of General Theodore Schwan. During The Spanish–American War, the Eleventh Infantry saw action under Brigadier General Schwan in the Battle of Silva Heights in the Puerto Rican Campaign. Myer was among the officers who received a distinguished mention in General Schwan's reports, for service rendered under fire during the campaign in western Puerto Rico. Myer and