BIO: Herbert D. MEEK, Centre County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including 
the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing 
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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  HERBERT D. MEEK, one of Centre county's intelligent and energetic 
sons, is a successful druggist and pharmacist at State College, and his 
prospects for the future are most promising.  He was born March 7, 
1869, in Patton township, Centre county, where his parents, D. L. and 
M. E. (Waddle) Meek have for many years been prominent and highly 
respected residents.
  The district schools of that locality furnished Mr. Meek an 
elementary education during boyhood, and he was also trained to habits 
of industry upon his father's farm.  Excellent as were his 
surroundings, discontent found lodgment in his youthful mind, and he 
decided to seek a wider range of activity.  Four years were spent in 
State College in the Mechanical Engineering Departments, and then the 
ambitious young man went to Pittsburg, where he was employed by the 
Westinghouse Machine Company for two years; but the Homestead strike 
had a demoralizing effect upon the business of the firm, and Mr. Meek 
found his occupation gone.  At this junction he determined upon his 
future business, and entering the National School of Pharmacy at 
Washington, D.C., he took a complete course, graduating in 1894.  For 
some time he was employed as a pharmacist with J. W. Drew, of 
Washington, and in April, 1896, he went to State College and opened his 
present drug store.  His store of drugs is complete, and their 
arrangement and neatness of all the appointments of the store show the 
characteristic precision which Mr. Meek carries into all his business 
operations. 
  Mr. Meek was married October 22, 1896, to Nannie M. Campbell, 
daughter of Ex-Commissioner Campbell, of Fairbrook, Penn., and they 
have one child, born December 8, 1897.
  A typical American in thought, our subject has always taken great 
interest in public questions, and he is a stanch supporter of the 
principles of the Democratic party.