Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Meier, William H ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00003.html#0000719 February 2, 2008, 3:01 am 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/bios/meier2421nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb