Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Meyer, John B. 1824 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  JOHN B. MEYER, tailor, Robinson, is a native of Bavaria, Germany, and was born
May 9, 1824. In 1849, he emigrated to America, landing in New York, and soon he
pushed out to Philadelphia, and there engaged in tailoring, a trade he had
learned in the old country. He went to Madison, Ind., where he met some old
acquaintances from Germany. From Madison he went to Edinburg, and in 1858 came
to Robinson, where he went to work at his trade. In 1862, having sold out his
business, he enlisted in the Ninety-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry for three
years. His regiment was attached to the Army of the Cumberland, and he was in
many of the battles fought by that portion of the Army of the Union, among which
were Hoover's Gap, Kingston, Atlanta, Chancellorsville, Selma, etc., etc. He was
discharged July 3, 1865, and the next year returned to Germany on a visit, but
came back in due time to America, and returned to Robinson, and located among
old friends. He owns considerable property in the town, and still continues
working at his trade of tailoring, in which he has been very successful.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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