Kenosha County WI Archives Biographies.....Meyer, John 1834 - 
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Author: Western Historical Society (1879)

    JOHN MEYER, foreman of E. Bain's machine shops; born in Germany in 1834;
came to Wisconsin in 1852, locating at Kenosha, where he worked for E. Bain at
wagon-making; in 1870, he took charge of the machine-shop, which position he
still holds. Married, in 1854, Miss Anna Weltee, a native of Germany, who died
at Kenosha Feb. 16, 1879; they have had ten children, five boys and five girls;
one boy and one girl dead. In 1873, was elected Alderman for the Second Ward;
was also School Commissioner six years, and member of Hook and Ladder Company
thirteen years. Member Catholic Church; Democrat.

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THE HISTORY OF RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES, WISCONSIN,

CONTAINING A HISTORY OF EACH COUNTY, ITS EARLY SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT,
RESOURCES, ETC., AN EXTENSIVE AND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, THEIR
IMPROVEMENTS, INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, ETC.,
ETC., WAR RECORD, BIOGRAPHICAL 8KBTCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN AND EARLY
SETTLERS, VIEWS OF BUILDINGS, ETC., ETC.; ALSO HISTORY OF WISCONSIN, COSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF WI8CON8IN, CONDEN8ED AB8TRACT OF LAWS OF WI8CONSIN,
MISCELLANEOUS, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY.
MDCCCLXXIX.
(1879)


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