Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Meers, Eneisha, LL B 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

Eneshia Meers, LL. B., has been a member of the Joliet bar for nearly thirty 
years, and the favorable opinion passed upon him at the outset of his career 
has in no degree been changed or modified, but on the contrary has been 
strengthened with the passing years as he has demonstrated his ability to cope 
with the intricate problems of the law. For a long period he has had a 
distinctly representative clientage that has connected him with much of the 
important litigation tried in the courts of this district. Born in Bloomsbury, 
New Jersey, about fifty-one years ago, Mr. Meers is a son of Dennis and Anna 
Meers, who were natives of Ireland, and soon after their marriage crossed the 
Atlantic to the new world, settling first in Massachusetts. They afterward 
lived in other eastern states, Dennis Meers being engaged principally in 
railroad contracting. The greater part of his life was spent in New York city 
and the state of New Jersey, but in 1875 he removed westward with his family 
to Joliet, where he engaged in the hardware business, continuing in the same 
until his death in 1888. After becoming a naturalized American citizen he 
affiliated with the democracy and by his ballot stanchly supported its 
principles, but had no personal aspiration for office. He passed away at the 
age of seventy years, his widow still surviving him. During their early 
residence here they were members of St. Mary's Catholic church and after the 
division of the parish became communicants of the Sacred Heart church. Eneshia 
Meers spent his youth in New Jersey and in New York city. He took his 
collegiate course at Seton Hall College, a well known educational institution 
at Orange, New Jersey, of which Father Corrigan, afterward archbishop of New 
York, was president. Upon the removal of the family to the west he took up the 
study of law in the office of Egbert Phelps. Later he continued reading with 
Judge McRoberts, and subsequently became a student in the University of 
Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he was graduated in the class of 1877. Returning 
to Joliet, he formed a partnership with C. W. Brown, a leading lawyer of the 
city, the business connection between them terminating on the election of Mr. 
Brown to the position of state's attorney. Mr. Meers has since practised alone 
except a few years as a partner of John W. Downey, and has long-been 
recognized as one of the able trial lawyers at the Will county bar, being 
strong and logical in argument and forceful in the presentation of his cause. 
He adds to his comprehensive understanding of the law a ready command of 
language and as occasion demands employs the wit so characteristic of people 
of his nationality. Mr. Meers has been called to public office, serving from 
1879 until 1883 as city attorney, and had he aspirations in that direction 
undoubtedly could easily secure further political honors, but while an active 
worker in support of democracy he prefers that his time should be more largely 
given to his professional duties rather than to political service. He has, 
however, addressed many public audiences wpon the questions and issues of the 
day and his analytical reasoning and clear deductions often prove an 
influencing force upon his hearers. He belongs to various civic and social 
organizations, including the Commercial Club, Elks lodge and Knights of 
Columbus. He lives with his family in a fine home on Western avenue, where he 
located seven years ago. 

Additional Comments:
Past and Present of Will County, Illinois, by W. W. Stevens, President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907.

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