Lake-Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Meeker, Hiram H. 1835 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

HIRAM H. MEEKER.

    Hiram H. Meeker, the well known nurseryman and fruit grower of Crown Point,
has been identified with this town for thirty-five years, comprising the latter
half of a very busy and useful life, and his energies have been directed along
several different lines of activity. He is one of the surviving veterans of the
Civil War, in which he served until he was disabled, and it was only a few years
after that conflict that he took up his residence in Crown Point, where
mercantile interests, farming and tree culture and small fruit growing have at
various times taken up his attention.

    Mr. Meeker was born in Wyoming county, Pennsylvania, March 10, 1835, a son
of Joseph and Anna (Bronson) Meeker, the former a native of New Jersey and the
latter of Connecticut. He is the third child and second son of the family of six
children, all of whom grew to adult years.

    Mr. Meeker was reared on a farm in his native place and was educated in the
common schools, remaining with his father until the outbreak of the Rebellion.
In October, 1861, be enlisted in Company A, Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry,
as a private, and served until he was disabled during a forced march, near
Poolville, Maryland. During the battle of Fredericksburg he was acting steward
in the hospital. He received his honorable discharge in the spring of 1863,
having served for nearly two years. He returned home and remained in his native
state for a few months and then came to Indiana and located in Carroll county.
In 1869 he came to Crown Point and for two years was engaged in the mercantile
business, after which for the same period be followed farming. He then bought
the stock in the same store and continued merchandising for several years, when
he sold out and has since then conducted a nursery, which has become one of the
important institutions of Crown Point and has maintained a reputation for the
quality of its products. He makes a specialty of growing small fruit for the
market, most of it being consumed in town. He has about seven acres within the
city limits, and also forty acres near by, and also owns one of the nice
residences of Crown Point. Mr. Meeker is one of the best posted men in Indiana
on the subjects of the growth of small fruits, shrubbery, shade trees and all
nursery stock.

    Mr. Meeker is a member of the John Wheeler Post No. 161, G. A. R., and a
member of the Masonic fraternity. He has been a life-long Republican in
politics. He was married January 7, 1864, to Miss Mary A. Bryant, who was born
in Coshocton county, Ohio, September 3, 1837, being a daughter of John and Susan
(Graves) Bryant, of the William Cullen Bryant branch. There were three daughters
born of this union: Addie is the wife of Julius Rockwell, of Crown Point; Alta
is the wife of William Thompson, of South Chicago; and Josephine is a popular
teacher in the public schools of Crown Point. Mrs. Meeker and her daughter
Josephine are leading members of the Presbyterian church.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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