BIOGRAPHIES: Harry MEYER, Barron, Barron Co., WI ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Transcribed by Kate Wilson. Edited and submitted by Vic Gulickson 4 January 2004 ************************************************************************ Harry Meyer, groceryman of Barron, came here in 1918 after a long experience along mercantile lines in various states, and purchased the grocery store of Clayton B. Richards, which he still conducts. He has identified himself with the life of the town and is already regarded as a substantial citizen. He carries a good stock of groceries valued at about $4,000 and has a good trade. His wife at the time they came here purchased the millinery store of Mrs. Elmer Rochman, and this she now conducts, carrying a full line of ladies’ hats. Harry Meyer was born in Russia Aug. 10, 1877, son of Isaac and Eva (Kniff) Meyer, natives of that country. The father came to America in 1889, and with headquarters at Rock Island, Ill., became a peddler. In 1898 he sent for his wife. He has acquired a competency, owns several dwellings, and now lives in retirement. The children in the family were Sarah, Rebecca, Esther, Bessie, Edith, Harry, William, Samuel J., Israel and Dorris (deceased). Harry Meyer received his early training in Russia and came to America in 1890. He landed in New York Sept. 25 and remained there for ten weeks working in a cigar factory. Then he went to St. Louis where he was a peddler for a while. Later he followed the same line in Burlington, Iowa. In 1891 he joined his father at Rock Island, Ill., going from there to Davenport, Ill., where he worked first as a clerk in a retail grocery store, then as ledger clerk in a wholesale grocery store, and later as clerk in a dry goods store. In 1898 he came to Wisconsin and worked in a dry goods store at Waupun for seven months. A few months later he went to Stevens Point and took charge of a large department store. His next venture was at Pittsville, also in this state, where he was interested with S. N. Baum in a general store and creamery. But the strenuous duties of this position undermined his health, and after six years he sold out and went to Oklahoma. In 1907 he came back, was in business with B. A. Pieser at Menocqua, Wis., two years; owner of a store in Poynette, Wis., two years; clerk in Milwaukee stores two and a half years, and clerk in a Wausau store a few months. Then he came to Barron. Mr. Meyer is a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner. Mr. Meyer was married Aug. 18, 1901, to Tillie C. Baum, daughter of Samuel and Henrietta (Hornstein) Baum, natives of Russia, the former of whom lives in Pittsville, Wis., and the later of whom died Jan. 8, 1916. In the Baum family there are five children: Lena, Anna, Tillie, John and Isaac. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer have two daughters: Leah J., born Aug. 11, 1902, now attending the University of Wisconsin, at Madison, and Gertrude L., born Jan. 14, 1904, now attending the high school at Barron. --Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 123. © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm