Joseph H. Meeker, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

JOSEPH H. MEEKER, brother of Dr. S. F. Meeker, member of the legislature,
of Rapides Parish, La., although a man of middle age, is well preserved,
and is a representative citizen of the parish.  Though reared and educated
elsewhere (see biography of Dr. S. F. Meeker), he is a genuine Southern
gentleman and Louisianan by adoption.  He is a man whose face at once
indicates his true American breadth of conception and consequent
liberality.  He will command the respect of his associates regardless of
the situation, and has many strong personal friends.  In Louisiana, the
home of his adoption, he has become one of the well-to-do sugar planters of
Rapides Parish.  He was married in Louisiana.  They have one child, whom
they have taken great care to educate.  Mr. Meeker takes practical charge
of the sugar mill and of the sugar, of which they make a large amount.  He
is liberal in his religious views, is a member of no church, but is a
strong supporter of Christianity and education.  He is liberal and
open-hearted in all worthy movements, and extends a helping hand to all
public enterprises that tend to better the welfare of his parish.  His
family are members of the Roman Catholic Church.