Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Meeker, J. Frank 1868 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

J. FRANK MEEKER.

    J. Frank Meeker, county attorney of Lake county, is one of the younger
members of the bar at Crown Point, but during the twelve years of his practice
he has acquired an extensive clientage and in the later years found himself in
possession of as much business as be can consistently manage. He is thoroughly
identified with the interests of Lake county, having known it all his life, and
he has the distinction of being one of the youngest of the log-cabin children of
northwestern Indiana, to which favored class some of the most prominent men of
the present belong, but whose day and generation are of the past in the populous
and highly developed state of Indiana.

    Mr. Meeker was born December 11, 1868, and his birthplace was in Center
township, five miles east of Crown Point, in the primitive and pioneer log cabin
that his father had made his home place on first coming to the county. His
parents are Sherman B. and Elizabeth (Cress) Meeker, both natives of
Pennsylvania and now living retired from the active duties of life at Crown
Point. His father, on emigrating to the west, first established his home in
Illinois, afterwards located in Michigan, and in 1866 came to Lake county,
Indiana, settling in Center township, where he followed the occupation of
farming for a number of years. He and his wife were the parents of four
children: Nathan Brewster, who is engaged in farming on the old homestead;
Charles H., conducting an implement business at Crown Point; Henrietta, the
deceased wife of Elliott Bibler; and J. Frank. 

    Mr. J. Frank Meeker, the youngest of the family, spent his early boyhood
days upon the old homestead in Center township, attending the district schools.
He came to Crown Point at the age of thirteen, and continued his education here
until graduated from the high school. Later he took up the study of law with Mr.
Peterson, under whose direction he continued his reading for about two years.,
and he afterward entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he was
graduated in the law department with the class of 1892. In the same year he made
the beginnings of his practice at Crown Point, was then at Hammond for one year,
after which he returned to Crown Point, which has been the center of his
activity ever since. He was in partnership with Judge McMahan for two years, but
since then has practiced alone and built up a very fine patronage. He served as
deputy prosecuting attorney for two terms, covering four years, and in February,
1901, was appointed county attorney, which office he still fills.

    Mr. Meeker since taking his place among the legal fraternity at Crown Point
has taken considerable interest in Republican politics, and has done much for
the organization and influence of that party in Lake county. He is vice chairman
of the county central committee. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity at
Crown Point, of the Knights of Pythias, the Independent Order of Foresters and
the North American Union.

    On March 24, 1894, Mr. Meeker was united in marriage with Miss Stella S.
Colby, a daughter of Mrs. Catherine Colby. She is also a native of Lake county,
and has the distinction of being the only woman who has qualified and obtained
admission to the bar of Lake county. Mr. and Mrs. Meeker have one daughter,
Stella.


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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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