Captain C.V. Meeden
January 6, 1910
Arizona Republican Newspaper

Captain C.V. Meeden of Yuma, who has been in Phoenix for the 
last two days, is an old Arizona pioneer of the older school, 
dating his residence since 1869, when he came to Yuma as a 
river captain in the employ of one of the big companies then 
engaged in the navigation of the Colorado.  For ten years he 
lived on the raging waters of the Colorado, except such 
intervening periods as his good ship was stuck on one sand 
bar or another, which periods were frequent but of short 
duration.  He left the billowy wave to mingle in territorial 
and county politics to the extent that in 1880 Governor John 
C. Fremont the pathfinder; appointed him superintendent of the 
territorial prison, which position he also held under Governor 
F.A. Tritle. He has always been prominent in Yuma County 
affairs and is now assessor of the county and chairman of 
the board of trustees of Yuma school district.

Of his assessorship he is quite proud and has reason to be.  
When he was elected to the office Yuma was a third class 
county, but by increasing the thoroughness of the work in 
the assessors's office as asxiliary to the natural increase 
of valuations.  Yuma is now in the rank of the first class 
counties.  The captain comes to Phoenix but seldom but knows 
many people here and all over the territory in fact, and 
when he does have business here he finds the office of his 
oldtime townsman, Surveyor General Ingalls, a peaceful and 
pleasant harbor.