Denver-Pueblo-Custer County CO Archives Biographies.....Meyer, Arthur D. 1868 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

ARTHUR D. MEYER.

    Industrial activity in Denver finds a well known representative in Arthur D.
Meyer, who has built up a substantial and growing job printing business. He
comes to the west from Chicago, Illinois, his native city, his birth having
there occurred on the 15th of August, 1870. His parents were John J. and Anna
(Nommensen) Meyer, who in 1871 removed westward with their family from Chicago
to Colorado. In early life the father engaged in the shoe business, but during
the great Chicago fire his establishment was destroyed and he afterward decided
to try his fortune in the west. Subsequent to his arrival in Denver he took up
boot manufacturing but later removed to Pueblo, where he carried on business
from 1875 until 1877. In the latter year he removed to Silver Cliff, Colorado,
after which he returned to Denver in 1879 and continued to make his home in that
city to the time of his demise, which occurred in 1910. He had attained the age
of seventy years, his birth having occurred in 1840. His wife, who was born in
1838, also died in Denver in 1910.

    Arthur D. Meyer is the only surviving member of their family of six children
and was their firstborn. In his boyhood days he attended the public schools of
Pueblo and of Denver and was graduated from the Arapahoe street school. Later he
turned his attention to the printing trade and after completing his
apprenticeship he took up the job printing business on his own account in 1900
in connection with Edward Alexander. That association was maintained with mutual
pleasure and profit for sixteen years, or until 1916, when Mr. Meyer bought the
interest of his partner in the business, which he has since conducted
independently. He has one of the most modern and up-to-date job printing
establishments in this section of the country. It is splendidly equipped with
modern machinery and presses and the workmanship is unsurpassed. In fact, he
holds to the highest standards of service, and his business enterprise and
ability have won for him a very substantial patronage.

    In June, 1898, Mr. Meyer was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Frieling,
of Denver, a daughter of Henry A. and Louise Frieling, and they have become
parents of three children: Alva J., who was born in Denver in 1900 and after
attending the Manual Training high school became a student in the State
University at Boulder but is now a lieutenant in the Student Army Training
Corps; Violet, who was born in Denver in 1903; and Margaret, who was born in
1910. The two daughters are pupils in the schools of Denver.

    Mr. Meyer's political belief is indicated in the fact that he is the
secretary and one of the directors of the Denver Democratic Club. He also
belongs to the Typographical Union and to the Denver Typothetae, while
fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America. He belongs to
St. Paul's Evangelical church and he is interested in all that pertains to the
material, intellectual, social, political and moral welfare of his community. He
was called upon to represent Denver county in the twenty-first general assembly
of Colorado, where he gave thoughtful and earnest consideration to the vital
questions which came up for settlement. He is strong and purposeful,
accomplishing what he undertakes, and in his business vocabulary there is no
such word as fail, for when one avenue of opportunity seems closed he carves out
 other paths  whereby  he may reach  the desired  goal.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF COLORADO

ILLUSTRATED

VOLUME III

CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918


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