Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Meeker, John M. 1839 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   John M. Meeker, farmer and stock raiser, Stone Bluff, is a son of Usual and
Sally Meeker, residents of Richland township. The former, a native of New York,
emigrated to eastern Indiana, then to Ohio, then to Fountain county in 1828. The
latter is a native of Vermont. John M. was born in 1839, and was educated in the
pioneer log school-house, and reared to farming. He was married in 1864, to
Amanda R. McClane, a native of Virginia, and daughter of Robert and Jane
McClane, early settlers of Fountain county. By this union there are six
children: Euree, Joanna, Anna, Tabytha, Halford, and Edna. He and his wife are
members of the United Brethren church at Stone Bluff. He was a volunteer in the
late war, Co. H, 72d Ind. Vols. He began life for himself with a limited amount
of this world's goods. He now lives on the farm settled by Judge Birch in 1823.
It consists of 400 acres in good cultivation, well stocked. The railroad divides
his farm into two parts. Mr. Meeker is a radical republican in politics. As a
successful business man few excel him, nor is he less generous toward
institutions which will increase the business interests of the country, or
benefit society morally.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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