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Born 26 July 1843, in this county
The tie, exactly: native son — born in St. Joseph County on 26 July 1843, a son of Jacob and Catharine Meyer, and by 1880 the working head of his father's farm: Chapman prints him as superintending the 460-acre Meyer farm on Section 15, the acreage his father's entry above accumulated.
The course: he married first Minerva Smith in January 1870 — she died 26 April 1873 — and second Helen Smith, on 15 September 1874. The sketch gives him no office and no trade beyond the farm, and that is the entry's point: the second generation of Harris Prairie, in the record, is largely this — a native-born son running the home acres, his life documented to the depth of his marriages and his acreage and no deeper. The file prints that depth as the true one.
Sources:
- Chapman (1880), Harris Township biographical sketches, pp. 715–717 — the Joseph Meyer sketch.