Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Meeker, Charles H. 1857 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

CHARLES H. MEEKER.

    Charles H. Meeker, who is energetic and notably reliable in business
affairs, is now dealing in agricultural implements in Crown Point. He has never
sought to figure before the public in any light save that of a business man and
in his chosen field of labor he has won confidence and respect and at the same
time has gained a fair measure of success. He was born in Calhoun county,
Michigan, on the 2d of November, 1857, and is the second son and third child of
Sherman and Elizabeth A. (Cress) Meeker. His father was born in Pennsylvania and
on emigrating westward established his home in Illinois. He afterward located in
Michigan and in 1867 came to Lake county, Indiana, settling in Center township,
where he followed the occupation of farming for a number of years. He now lives
retired in Crown Point. His wife bore the maiden name of Elizabeth Cress, who is
also a native of Pennsylvania, and a resident of Crown Point. They are the
parents of four children: Nathan Brewster, who is engaged in farming on the old
homestead; Charles H., who is conducting an implement business at Crown Point;
Henrietta, the deceased wife of Elliott Bibler; and J. Frank, an attorney of
Crown Point.

    When only about a year old Charles H. Meeker was taken by his parents to
White county, Indiana, while the family home was afterward established in
Carroll county when he was six years of age. In the fall of 1867 he removed to
Lake county, where he attended the district schools of Center township. He was
reared in the usual manner of farmer lads, early becoming familiar with the
duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist, and he continued to
assist his father up to the time of his marriage.

    It was on the 22d of September, i88o, that Mr. Meeker was joined in wedlock
to Miss Rose A. Sweeney, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Johnson) Sweeney,
who was born in Center township, Lake county, Indiana, and was educated in the
same school that her husband attended. The young couple located on a farm lying
in Center and Ross townships, and there Mr. Meeker engaged in farming for ten
years. In 1891, however, he retired from that department of labor and
established an agricultural implement business in Crown Point, since which time
he has dealt in farm machinery of all kinds. He also handles buggies and wagons,
and he draws his patronage from almost every section of the county. He is one of
the best known men in this line of business, and has secured a liberal patronage
which is constantly growing. His business methods are such as will bear the
closest investigation and scrutiny, and his earnest desire to please his patrons
combined with strong and honorable purpose has been the foundation upon which he
has builded his prosperity.

    Mr. Meeker keeps well informed on the questions and issues of the day and
gives a stalwart support to the principles of the Republican party. In 1904 Mr.
Meeker was nominated for the office of township trustee of Center township. He
belongs to the Independent Order of Foresters and to the fire company at Crown
Point. He is well known throughout this portion of the state, his business
taking him to all parts of the county, and he has thus formed a wide
acquaintance and gained the warm regard of many friends. His residence in Lake
county covers thirty-seven years and therefore he has been a witness of much of
its development, progress and advancement.


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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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