Meek Son - Birth 1892

MEEK

Posted By: Volunteer - Rich Lowe
Date: 10/26/2007 at 04:57:38

The biggest feeling man in town is R. E. Meek, on account of the arrival of a young democrat at his home on Tuesday, who yells *ustily for Boies as President. Parents and boy are doing fine.

[hand written at end of article is “1-19-92”]

Source: Entler Scrapbooks. Vol. 6; Iowa Historical Library, Iowa City, IA

[transcriber's note: Horace Boies was governor of Iowa. In 1892, Boies ran a distant third in the presidential nominating contest at a Democratic National Convention handily dominated by former (and future) president Grover Cleveland.]