Plumas-Sacramento-Lassen County CA Archives Biographies.....Meylert, Gurdon W. 1837 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

GURDON W. MEYLERT.—Secku and Abigail (Nichols) Meylert, the former a native of
Germany and the latter of Connecticut, reared a family of nine children, the
youngest of whom, the subject of our sketch, was born at Montrose, Susquehanna
county, Pennsylvania, May 19, 1837. He was educated at Lewisburgh, Pennsylvania,
and at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, New York. At the age of
seventeen he made a trip to China, and thence to California in 1855. He resided
for a time in San Francisco, and then went into business in Sacramento, where he
was at the time of the flood of 1861-62. From thence he came to Plumas county,
where he has resided and engaged in active business pursuits ever since. For the
past eight years he has been a contractor at the Plumas Eureka mine. He has
always taken an interest in public affairs; was superintendent of the county
schools for several years; was one of the projectors of the Sierra Iron and
Quincy R. R. Co., in which he is a large stockholder. He is a member of Plumas
Lodge No. 88, I. O. O. F., and Plumas Lodge No. 60, F. & A. M. Mr. Meylert is
extensively engaged in dairying, for which purpose he keeps about 120 cows on
his ranch in Mohawk valley. He has 1,200 acres of fine, land for pasture and
meadow, from which he cuts 250 tons of hay. He also raises great quantities of
vegetables. February 27, 1864, he married Miss H. E. Madden, daughter of G. W.
Madden of Taylorville, in this county. Mr. Meylert has recently been appointed
by the president to take charge of the United States land office at Susanville.

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Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties

San Francisco: Fariss & Smith
(1882)


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