Alameda-Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Meese, George W. 1828 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

GEORGE W. MEESE, orchardist and vineyardist, a mile east of Pleasanton, dates
his birth July 6, 1826, in Ohio, upon a farm. His father, Philip Meese, a farmer
by occupation, was a native of Pennsylvania, and died in 1878; and his mother,
whose name before marriage was Nancy Ready, was born in Virginia, and died in
1834. Mr. Meese, our subject, located in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, followed
farming eight years, and during that period he held the offices of Justice of
the Peace and chairman of the Board of Supervisors. He was also a member of the
Board of Inspectors at the election of Lincoln as President of the United
States, both in 1860 and 1864. He was a carpenter and car-builder in the shops
of the Northwestern Railway Company eight years in the city of Fond du Lac. Next
he was sent by that company to Marinette, that State, to take charge of the
car-repairing shops there, which position he had until 1880, when he came by
rail to California. For the first two years here he was a resident of San Ramon,
Contra Costa County. In 1882 he located at his present place, where he owns and
cultivates thirty acres in vineyard and orchard. He is a prominent member of Lew
Morris Post, No. 47, G. A. R., at Livermore, and is also a decided Republican,
taking an active part in political matters.

  He was first married in Ohio, and had six children, of whom two daughters and
two sons are still living. The second time he was married in Contra Costa
County, California, February 16, 1882, to Mrs. M. P. Benedict, of Oakland, who
is a native of New York State, and came to California with her husband in 1848,
by whom she has one daughter, named Frances A.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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