Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Meier, William H 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

William H. Meier, engaged in general agricultural pursuits on section 15, 
Crete township, was born May 16, 1856, in the house in which he now lives, his 
parents being J. O. and Anne Meier, who are mentioned in connection with the 
sketch of Henry E. Meier, on another page of this work. William H. Meier was 
reared to farm labor and when not busy with the duties of the fields pursued 
his education in the common schools. He was early taught the value of industry 
and perseverance as effective factors in a business life and the lessons which 
he learned in youth along this line have borne fruit in his later years. When 
he was thirty years of age he was given two hundred and forty acres of choice 
land, which had been his father's old homestead. He has greatly improved the 
property since that time. He has built two large barns upon the place, one of 
which is a brick structure, and in the tilling of the soil he has brought 
forth rich crops. He continued to operate the homestead place until some time 
ago, when he sold eighty acres to the Indiana Southern Railroad, built by John 
R. Walsh. The remainder of the farm he cultivates and has recently purchased 
one hundred and sixty acres on section 11, Crete township, from J. O. 
Piepenbrink. He also owns two hundred and sixty acres near St. James, 
Minnesota, and a section of land in Assinniboia, Canada. His time and energies 
are devoted to general farming and in his business he has met with gratifying 
success. His fields have been brought under a high state of cultivation and 
everything about the place is in keeping with the ideas of progressive 
agriculture. In 1884 Mr. Meier was married to Miss Caroline Tatge, who was 
born in Crete township and is a daughter of H. H. Tatge, an early settler. Mr. 
and Mrs. Meier have become the parents of eight children: Otto, who is 
exchange clerk in the Chicago City Bank; Amelia, William T., Walter A., Emma, 
Linda, Edna and Paul, all yet at home. Mr. Meier and his family are members of 
the Lutheran church, in the work of which he takes a helpful and active part. 
He has served for five years as trustee of the church and since 1897 has been 
treasurer of the German school in his district, while for many years he has 
been a director of the public schools. In politics he is an earnest and 
unfaltering republican, though he has never aspired to office, preferring to 
devote his time and attention to farming interests, in which connection he has 
made a creditable name for himself and has won a goodly measure of success. 

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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