Meyer, Martin A. 1877 – 1957

MEYER, SMITH, LEIMAN

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Date: 4/13/2015 at 17:36:23

MARTIN A. MEYER.

Martin A. Meyer, a prosperous and successful stock buyer in Fort Atkinson, is a native son of Iowa, born in Fayette county, his parents being Henry and Mary (Smith) Meyer, natives of Germany. The father died when the subject of this review was only one year and a half old, leaving two children: a daughter, Mary, who died in a convent at Racine, Wisconsin, on the 22d of May, 1906; and Martin A.

Martin A. Meyer was reared in Fayette county and acquired his education in the district schools. When he began his independent career he followed farming and merchandising for some years, conducting a profitable and well managed hardware store in Wesley, Iowa, for some time. He afterwards engaged in his present occupation as a cattle and horse buyer, feeder and shipper on an extensive scale and success has steadily rewarded his well directed labors, his business being today of large proportions and the trade which he controls important. He resides upon a fine farm of fifty acres just adjoining the corporation limits and this he has provided with substantial improvements, erecting upon it a fine modern brick house, fine barns and outbuildings and installing the necessary labor-saving machinery. He is well known throughout the township as a progressive and practical farmer as well as a reliable and far-sighted business man and he holds the confidence and esteem of all who are in any way associated with him.

Mr. Meyer was united in marriage to Miss Dora Meyer, a second cousin, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Leiman) Meyer, natives of Germany. The father has passed away but the mother survives, making her home in Des Moines, Iowa. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Meyer have been born four children: Euphemia, whose birth occurred on the 9th of October, 1903; Legories, born November 6, 1905; Dennis, born July 26, 1908; and Margaret, born on the 14th of February, 1911. Mr. Meyer is a devout member of the Roman Catholic church and gives his political allegiance to the democratic party. He is, however, not active as an office seeker, preferring to concentrate his attention upon his business affairs in which he is meeting with a gratifying and well deserved measure of success.

Source: History of Winneshiek County, Iowa Vol. II Chicago the S. J. Clark Publishing Company 1913

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