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JAMES MEIKLE.

    James Meikle is a retired rancher living at Smithfield. He was born
 in Glasgow,
Scotland, July 5, 1839, a son of William and Margaret (Jackson) Meikle.
 The father died
in Scotland and the mother came with her family to Utah in 1856,
 settling at Salt Lake
City. She made the trip across the plains with the first handcart
 company and for four
years remained a resident of Salt Lake City, after which she removed to
 Smith-field,
being among the first residents in this section. Here James Meikle and
 his brother
established the first tannery and continued in that business until
 1889, when the brother
passed away. James Meikle then turned his attention to farming and
 carefully developed
his fields as the years passed. He remained active in agricultural
 pursuits until a
recent date, when he retired from business and his sons now conduct the
 farm.

    On the 3d of January, 1864, Mr. Meikle was married to Miss Harriet
 Louise Peacock, a
daughter of William and Phillis (Hyam) Peacock, who were natives of
 Herefordshire,
England, and came to Utah in 1863, settling at Smithfield. Mr. and Mrs.
 Meikle became the
parents of nine children, seven of whom are yet living. Mr. Meikle's
 second wife was
Lavina Noble, a daughter of William and Mary Ann Noble, and they had
 six children, five
of whom survive.

    In 1882 Mr. Meikle went to Scotland on a mission for the Church of
 Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints and remained abroad for two years, spending one year
 in Birmingham,
England, having charge of the conference. He has been actively
 identified with Utah for a
period of sixty-three years and has therefore been a witness of
 practically the entire
growth and development of the state. He has contributed much to the
 improvement of
Smithfield and has been called upon to fill a number of public offices.
 He served for
fourteen years as chief of police of Smithfield and for two terms was a
 member of the
city council. He is an Indian war veteran, having participated in the
 Indian troubles in
northern Utah and southern Idaho and he is vice commander of the Indian
 War Veterans of
Cache County at the present time. He has been prominently identified
 with the building of
canals and roads and with various other public activities which have
 been of great
benefit to the community and to the state at large. Mr. Meikle has now
 reached the
advanced age of eighty years, having come as a youth of seventeen to
 Utah, and through
the intervening period he has continuously remained a resident of this
 state save when
filling a mission in Great Britain.

Extracted from:

UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920