Sedgwick-Atchison County KS Archives Biographies.....Meeker, Hildreth C. 1859 - 
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Author: O. H. Bentley (1910)

   Hildreth C. Meeker, hardware merchant of Wichita, Kan., whose establishment
is located at No. 822 West Douglas avenue, is a native of Iowa, where he was
born at Eddyville on August 5, 1859. His parents were Isaac and Amelia C.
(Jennings) Meeker, natives of Zanesville, Ohio, and Baltimore, Md.,
respectively. They reared a family of nine children, all of whom were born in
Ohio, Hildreth C. Meeker being the sixth child. It was in the early '60s that
the family removed to Iowa, and it was some ten years later that they came to
Kansas, locating at Atchison, where the father of the family continued work at
his trade of a carpenter. Both of Mr. Meeker's parents are now dead. Hildreth C.
was educated in the public schools of Atchison, and in 1876, after leaving
school, he came to Wichita in search of his fortune. He was first employed in a
grocery store conducted by W. S. Corbitt. Seven years later he went to Pueblo,
Colo., but after remaining there three years he returned to Wichita and entered
the employ of D. J. Chatfield, who was engaged in the hardware business. Mr.
Meeker was placed in charge of a branch store conducted by Mr. Chatfield in
Cheney, Kan., as its manager, and this arrangement continued from 1882 to 1885.
At the end of this time Mr. Meeker returned to Wichita and accepted a position
as clerk in the postoffice mail service, a position which he held for eleven
years consecutively. In 1905 he established himself in the hardware business on
the West Side, a business which he has since conducted successfully. Mr. Meeker
is a member of Sunflower Lodge, No. 86, A. F. and A. M., and also is a member of
the Consistory, Fraternal Aid and the West Side Commercial League. He was
married on December 25, 1883, to Miss Mattie A. Walker, only daughter of Judge
W. F. Walker.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 

History of Wichita and Sedgwick County: past and present, including an account
of the cities, towns and villages of the county

Editor in chief: O. H. Bentley
Chicago: C.F. Cooper & Co. (1910)


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