Bio of MEYER, George (b.1861), Wright Co., MN
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426           HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

George Meyer, an influential farmer and pioneer of Frankfort township, now 
living in retirement after so many years of hard work and earnest toil, was 
born on the old homestead in section 22, December 18, 1861, son of Conrad 
and Anna (Hochleiter) Meyer, who came to the United States in 1848. On their 
long voyage of sixty days their one child, Cresence, died, and was buried at 
sea. Upon landing they located at Allegheny, Penn., where Conrad Meyer worked 
on the railroad for ninety cents a day. There they remained about eight years, 
and here one child, Mary, was born. It was in 1856 that they came to Minnesota 
and located in section 22, Frankfort, this county. The tract was covered with 
woods, no roads had been built to it and all the country was wild. His first 
house was built of rails and was located where the woodshed now stands. First 
he cut down the heavy timber and then with a yoke of oxen and a jumping plow 
he broke the land. From his original tract he sold forty acres, but he later 
bought enough to make a tract of 182 acres. Pioneer life was beset with many 
diffculties, and he often had to haul flour and provisions from St. Paul. 
Gradually the place was developed and became a good farm. Conrad Meyer died 
at the age of 76. His wife had passed away at the age of 48. George Meyer was 
reared on the home farm, attended the public schools, learned farming from his 
father, and with the exception of a period of time he spent in the west he has 
always remained on the place until a few months ago. He erected a new house, 
and a round barn sixty-four feet in diameter and sixty feet high, said to be 
the most completely equipped and handsomest barn of its kind in the whole 
county. Other important improvements were also made. In the summer of 1914 the 
farm was sold for $18,000. The place was originally secured for almost nothing, 
and the phenomenal rise in price represents the result of the hard work done 
on the place by Mr. Meyer and his family. Mr. Meyer is a stockholder in the 
creamery at St. Michael's and a member of the St. Michael's Shipping 
Association.  Mr. Meyer was married September 4, 1888, to Margaret Irman, 
born in Minneapolis, January 22, 1868, daughter of Michael and Margaret 
(Gales) Irman, and this union has been blessed with fourteen children: 
Margaret, Nicholas, Peter, Mary, Josephine, Louisa, Lena, Rosa and Clara 
(twins) (deceased), Anklin, George, Laura (deceased) Rose and Lorena.