Sullivan-Susquehanna County PA Archives Biographies.....MEYLERT, Michael 1823 - 1883
  ************************************************
  Copyright.  All rights reserved.
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
  http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm
  ************************************************
  
  File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
  Joy Fisher sdgenweb@gmail.com August 6, 2005, 3:25 pm
  
  Author: Biographical Publishing Co.
  
  MICHAEL MEYLERT was a prominent and highly esteemed citizen and a substantial
  business man of Laporte, Pa., of which town he was the founder. He laid out the
  streets and parks of the town and did more to promote its interests than any
  other man. Mr. Meylert was born in New Milford, Pa., on June 20, 1823, and he
  was a son of Secku and Abigail (Nichols) Meylert.
  
    Secku Meylert was a farmer of Susquehanna County, Pa., and as a result of his
  marriage with Abigail Nichols the following children were born: Amos N.;
  Michael, the subject of this biographical sketch; Henry, who died in infancy;
  William; Mindwell; Asa; Maria; Guerdon; Priscilla. Amos N. was united in
  marriage with Ann Dennis, and they reared the following children: Addie, the
  wife of J. A. Scranton, who has two children, Lydia and Robert; Charles,
  deceased, who was joined in marriage with Laquer Lawrence, by whom he reared
  three children, Laquer, Charles, and Fanny; William wedded Mary Rielly, who bore
  him one daughter, Florence; Mary, wife of O. Johnson; Kate, wife of J. F.
  Maylon, and has two children, Catherine and Theo; and Louise, who is the wife of
  Fred Rodewald, and is the mother of one child, Annie. William, the fourth child
  born to Secku and Abigail Meylert, married Mary A. Gregory, and they reside in
  Laporte. They have reared five children: Mina, the wife of E. S. Chase, by whom
  she has three children, Ada, Edith, and Helen; Adaline; Howard, whose marriage
  with Mary Cain resulted in the birth of one child, Grace; Fanny; and Frank, who
  wedded Rose Miller. Mindwell Meylert was united in marriage with Alfred Sauer,
  and their home has been blessed by two children, Alfred and Fred. Asa Meylert
  was joined in the bonds of wedlock with Harriet Hodgdon. Maria Meylert married
  Isaac Brunner and four children blessed this union, namely: Mary, the wife of
  William Mullen, is the mother of two children, Eugenia and Meylert; Meylert B.
  married Mary Mayall, and they have reared three children, Charlotte, Mayall, and
  Meylert; Anna; and Edith. Guerdon Meylert married Ellen Madden; Priscilla, the
  youngest child born to Secku and Abigail Meylert, married Judson Richardson, and
  they have two children. May and William.
  
    Michael Meylert, the subject of this sketch, acquired a good education in the
  public schools and at Montrose and Friendsville academies. At the age of
  eighteen years he began teaching school. Later he was employed by a corps of
  engineers to work on the North Branch of the canal, during which time he made
  his home at Tunkhannock. Upon the completion of the canal he followed surveying
  and civil engineering and surveyed the asylum lands. He subsequently entered the
  employ of William B. Clymer, general agent of the Bingham estate, and took
  charge of the surveying department. In 1847, when Sullivan County was divided
  from Lycoming County, Mr. Meylert, the father of our subject, and Mr. Clymer
  purchased the Norris & Fox lands, which lie in the south-central part of
  Sullivan County, and they appointed Michael Meylert as agent, and he purchased
  many hundred acres of land. He built a rude log house and settled at what is now
  the town of Laporte; he surveyed and laid out streets and parks; built many
  houses, and set out shade trees. He erected the first frame house there, now
  known as the Mountain House, and later built the Laporte Hotel, a handsome and
  substantial structure, three-stories high, which was destroyed by fire in 1897.
  He also built a saw-mill and later established a newspaper, with which he was
  connected for some thirty years. In 1851 Mr. Meylert became interested in
  tanning, and in that year built a tannery. Besides a beautiful brick building,
  which he made his home, he owned several other residences. , Mr. Meylert was
  never known to abandon any important project having once set about the execution
  of it, and it was this persistency of effort which won him success and which
  gained for him the admiration and respect of his fellow-citizens.
  
    Politically our subject was an uncompromising Democrat and upheld the
  principles of his party with the steadfastness that characterized all his
  actions. He was positive in his opinions and fearless in their maintenance. In
  1851 he was honored by election to the State Legislature and passed the first
  railroad bill allowing a railroad to be built between Catawissa and the State
  Line. He surveyed the route of the Williamsport & North Branch Railroad. Our
  subject's mind was always active and industrious and his business affairs were
  always conducted with great wisdom and skill; he was regarded as a man of weight
  in his community, whose opinions and judgment were highly valued. The death of
  Mr. Meylert occurred on January 17, 1883, and his loss was greatly mourned by
  the community in which he had so long resided and with which he was so closely
  identified. Mrs. Meylert now resides in Laporte, where she is held in high
  esteem by a large circle of acquaintances.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
    Extracted from:
      
      Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
      Published by 
      Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/pafiles/
  
  File size: 5.6 Kb