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	HON. JAMES MACKINZIE Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. III _ Publ. 1917 - Page 1208
	ALFRED ERNEST HERMAN MAERKER, M. D. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 1208
	SAMUEL W. MAY Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. III _ Publ. 1917 - Page 1479
	JOSEPH RUSSELL McALLISTER Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. III _ Publ. 1917 - Page 1488
	WILLIAM H. McKEE Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 796
	JOHN A. MEHRING Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. III _ Publ. 1917 - Page 1423
	WILLIAM A. MEEKER Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 1140
	HENRY D. MEYER.  Probably no one class of people have contributed more to the agricultural development and improvement of Henry County than a large group of Hanoverians who came from Germany to this section of Ohio about half a century ago.  One of the representatives of this sterling stock is Henry D. Meyer, a progressive farmer and public spirited citizen whose home is on section 24 of Freedom Township.      He is of the second generation of this worthy class of people, and was born in Freedom Township Jan. 6, 1877, a son of Fred and Mary (Scheele) Meyer.  His parents were both natives of Hanover and of German Lutheran affiliations.  Fred Meyer came to the United States while our Civil war was in progress, accompanied by his mother, brothers and sisters.  All made settlement in Freedom Township, secured land there, and Fred Meyer besides his work as an agriculturist spent seven years of his younger life as fireman on a boat on Lake Erie.  Following this experience he married, his wife having come to the United States from Hanover about the same time as he did.  Possessed of small means but with an abundance of energy and enthusiasm, they began their labors on the land which he had bought, and in a few years had made a fine farm out of that first eighty acres.  This original home stead was located in section 15 of Freedom Township.  Fred Meyer and wife gradually extended their holdings until they had added four different tracts of eighty acres each, situated in different parts of the township.  Of this 400 acres nearly all is still owned by the Meyer family.  Fred Meyer and wife after getting ready to retire bought twenty acres on section 27, and there have enjoyed the comforts of a good home, Fred being seventy-one and his wife sixty-one years of age.  Both are members of St. John's Lutheran Church in Freedom Township, were identified early with its organization and have been among its most active supporters.  Fred Meyer is a democrat, and for a number of years served as township treasurer.  Of their children eleven grew to maturity, six sons and five daughters, all of whom have filled worthy places in the world, and all are living and all married except two.      Henry D. Meyer was the second child and the oldest son.  He grew up in Freedom Township, had the advantages of the local schools, and acquired a knowledge of both the German and English languages.  In 1900 he married Miss Minnie Holers, who was born on her father's old farm in Freedom Township Mar. 12, 1879.  Her parents are Herman and Catherine (Langenhop) Holers, both natives of Hanover, Germany.  They came to this country before they were married, and developed a good farm in Freedom Township.  They spent five years in Colorado, and then returned to Henry County, and are now living in the fullness of years in Napoleon City.  They are Lutherans and Mr. Holers is a democrat.      In acres formerly owned by his father, and he and his wife in the past fifteen years have converted it into a splendid farm and a beautiful place of residence, this being one of the most attractive features of that country district.  Conspicuous among the improvements is a fine modern two-story brick house, with a full basement and with all the modern conveniences.  The house contains ten rooms, and both the house and barns are lighted by electricity.  Mr. Meyer has a barn that is as thoroughly modern as his house, having been built according to the latest plans for such a structure and arranged for utmost efficiency in the handling of grain and stock.  They are the parents of four children:  Theodore, born in December, 1903;  Edmond, now nine years old;  Paul, aged five;  and Eldor, aged three.  The two oldest are now in school.  Mr. and Mrs. Meyer are members of St. John's Lutheran Church.  While giving close attention to his affairs as a progressive farmer, Mr. Meyer has done his share of community work, and for seven years served as township trustee.  He has also been a member of the school board and politically votes the democratic ticket. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 877
	HENRY H. MEYER is a substantial example of the thrifty class of people sent to Henry County by the Kingdome of Hanover.  No one class of citizens have done more for the fundamental development and improvement of this county's farming communities than the Hanoverians.      Mr. Meyer was born in his native kingdom June 23, 1860.  He is of long lived stock, of sturdy and substantial people who were principally identified with agricultural life in the old country.  His father Henry was an irrigation ditcher and a worker in the woods.  He died in 1870 in Germany in the prime of life.  He married Magdalena Witte, a native of Hanover.  At the death of her husband she was left a widow with three sons and two daughters.  These children were:  Fred now deceased; Henry H.; Herman, who is now married and lives in Adams Township of Defiance County and has two daughters and one son; Mary, who died in Henry County after her marriage to Fred Meyer, leaving two sons and two daughters; and Anna, who is the wife of Henry Panning, a retired farmer originally of Freedom Township but now living in Napoleon, and they are the parents of four sons and one daughter.      The widowed mother brought this family of children to America in March, 1872.  They took passage on the steamship Weser at Bremen, and after a passage of eleven days landed in New York City.  From there they came on to Napoleon and soon rented a small home in Adams Township of Defiance County.  Possessing very slender means, the children soon found employment on nearby farms, and gradually the condition of the family was raised to the average grade of prosperity found among the farmers of this rich section of Ohio.  The widowed mother died in Henry County about eighteen years ago, when three score years of age.  She and her husband were active members of the Lutheran Church, a religion which has been characteristic of the family for several generations.      Henry H. Meyer was twelve years of age and celebrated that birthday after reaching America.  Such education as he had was obtained in German schools before coming to this country.  He has been dependent upon his own resources and is in every sense a self-made man.  After his marriage he made his first purchase of land.  This was eighty acres of wild soil in Tiffin Township of Defiance County.  There he set sturdily to work to clear and drain, and made it his home for fourteen years.  In the meantime he improved the buildings and erected a substantial barn 40x65 feet.  In March, 1900, having sold that farm, he bought eighty-one acres of improved land on the Ridge Road in Ridgeville Township of Henry County.  This farm is in section 25.  Since then Mr. Meyer's thrift and management have added forty acres more, and now the whole is well improved.  It has a substantial ten-room house, and a bank barn 36x55 feet.  The clearing is all done, and the fields have for many seasons grown abundantly of the staple crops of this climate.  Mr. Meyer retired from farming several years ago and built an eight-room frame house on a cement foundation in Ridgeville Corners.  He also owns fourteen acres within the village limits.      Thrift and industry have been the keynotes of his success.  Besides farming he has also operated considerably as a trader.  In accumulating his success the chief factor besides himself has been his good wife.  He married her in Adams Township of Defiance County thirty-one years ago.  Her maiden name was Sophia Behrens.  Mrs. Meyer was born and reared and educated in Adams Township, and is a daughter of Fred and Dora (Haase) Behrens.  Both of them were natives of Germany, the farm of Mecklenburg and the latter of Hanover, and came as young people to America, marrying in Defiance County.  There they started out to carve a fortune and securing wild land cleared it up and eventually had a farm of 200 acres.  There they spent the rest of their years, Mr. Behrens dying at the age of eighty-four and his wife at sixty-nine.  They were hard working and honest people, and left honored names in their communities.  They were very active members of the Lutheran Church.  Of their family of two sons and four daughters are all married and have children of their own.      While they have no children, Mr. and Mrs. Meyer adopted at teh age of three years a son, William who is now twenty-five years of age.  They gave him careful home training and educated him in the schools of the locality, including the high school at Ridgeville Corners.  He became a student of electricity and is now employed by the Electric Maintaining Company of Toledo.  This adopted son married Anna Schleser of Adams Township in Defiance County.  Mr. and Mrs. Meyer are active members of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church, and in politics he is a democrat. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. 1917 - Page 904
	HERMAN M. MEYER.  To no one class of people does Henry County owe its agricultural development more than to the thrifty German stock.  During the great German colonization period of the late '40s and early '50s a large number of families from Hanover came to this country and settled in Freedom and other townships.  One of the oldest and best known of this colony is the Meyer family, represented by Herman M. Meyer family, represented by Herman M. Meyer, whose fine farm home is situated in section 23 of Freedom Township, and also by his venerable father Henry Meyer, who was one of the early Hanoverians to locate in this county.      Henry Meyer was born in Hanover Oct. 30, 1838, a son of Dietrich and Dora (Otto) Meyer.  Both parents were Hanover farmers and were active members of the Lutheran Church.  In 1859 Henry Meyer started for America.  It was a long voyage in a sailing vessel and he came from Bremen to New York City and thence west to Ohio and at once joined the settlement of people from Hanover in the wilds of Freedom Township.  There he found employment in different lines, and in 1861 went to Kelleys Island to work in the quarries.  A month later he went to the City of Sandusky, and about that time the Civil war broke out.  Though a newcomer in America, and not yet having completed his American citizenship, like many of his compatriots he was eager to enlist and fight for his adopted land.  He first enlisted in a three months' regiment, but this regiment was never called into service.  HE then enlisted in June, 1861, in Company C of the Twenty-fourth Ohio Infantry, and after the organization of the regiment at Camp Chase it was assigned to the western army.  He and his comrades were sent to Cheat Mountain in West Virginia and from there to Louisville, Kentucky.  After three years of active service Mr. Meyer veteranized at Chattanooga, and continued with the army until the close of the war.  When Sherman started on his famous march to the sea three regiments were consolidated and were renamed the Eighteenth Ohio, and Henry Meyer was assigned to Company F with the rank of orderly.  During nearly four years of active service he took part in fourteen battles, besides many minor engagements and skirmishes.  He was in the campaign beginning with the siege and capture of Fort Donelson, fought at Stone River, in the operations in East Tennessee including the battles of Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga, and after the siege and capture of Atlanta returned to Tennessee and fought at Franklin and Nashville.  Few of those gallant soldiers who fought in the Civil war from beginning to end are still living, and Henry Meyer deserves the gratitude of his fellow countrymen and his army record will always be a matter of pride to his children and his children's children.      After the war he returned to Napoleon, and for a time was employed in a brick yard.  In the meantime he bought eighty acres in section 23 of Freedom Township where the Village of Gerald now stands.  That district was all wild and unimproved then and part of the land was swampy in character.  In that one community Henry Meyer has lived ever since and has been prospered and frequently honored by his fellow citizens.  He is a democrat, held the office of township school director twelve years, spent twenty years in the office of township trustee and one term as supervisor.  He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Henry County Soldiers' Relief Commission.  He is one of the prominent Lutherans and an active worker in St. John's Church.      His son Herman M. Meyer was born on the old homestead in Freedom Township at Gerald on Sept. 28, 1872.  His father was twice married and his mother's name was Elizabeth Meyer.  She was also born in Hanover, Germany.      The old farm where Herman Meyer grew to manhood contained a large part of the site of the present Town of Gerald.  The Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad also passes between the two-eighty-acre tracts which his father acquired.  Herman Meyer was the third child and the oldest son of his parents.  He received his education in Freedom Township, and since reaching his majority has turned his thrifty energies to farming.  For a time he was a tenant, and in 1914 he bought seventy-five acres of the old homestead and also about twenty acres in section 26.  All this land is improved with the exception of ten acres containing some valuable timber.  Mr. Meyer has all the facilities for his business as a farmer.  His barn is 36 by 58 feet, with an attached shed 42 by 50 feet, and an other conspicuous feature of his group of buildings is a fifty-ton Indiana silo.  He has been a very successful feeder of high grade livestock, and is one of the thoroughly alert and progressive farmers of his township.  He and his family also occupy a modern seven room house, and he has supplied the household with all the comforts and advantages of twentieth century living.      Mr. Meyer married Mary Kahrs of Freedom Township.  She was born in Hanover, Germany, Nov. 28, 1878, and in 1888 came to the United States and to Henry County with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kahrs.  Her father is still living in Freedom Town ship and her mother died there several years ago.  Mr. and Mrs. Meyer have the following children: Otto W., born May 28, 1898, who has completed his education in the public schools and is now bearing an active part in the management of the home farm; Meta, born in 1901, and has completed the public school course; Mary, aged twelve, and Amelia, aged ten, both in school; and Laura, now four years of age.  The family are members of St. John's Lutheran Church.  Mr. Meyer is an active democrat, has served his town ship as supervisor and is now a member of the school board. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II - Publ. 1917 - Page 874
	KARL MEYER.  One of the fine country homes in Freedom Township of Henry County is that of Karl Meyer, a progressive and successful farmer and stock raiser.  He has shown a great deal of enterprise in the management of this farm, which contains 100 acres and is located in section 26.      Of his land all but fifteen acres of native timber are under cultivation.  Besides the usual staple crops he is one of the growers of sugar beets in Henry County.  His farm is well stocked with good grades of cattle, hogs and horses, and it is excellently situtated close by the Town of Gerald.  Among the improvements that should be mentioned are a large barn 56 by 80 feet with a shed 14 feet wide attached to it.  This barn was built in 1913, and it suggests in general the progressive features of Mr. Meyer's farming.  The farm is widely known as the clover Leaf Farm.  He and his family reside in a comfortable ten room house.      The farm has been the scene of all his activities since he was born there Sept. 28, 1875.  He grew up and received his education in this community and in September, 1901, secured forty acres of the old homestead, and has since purchased sixty acres adjoining, making his large farm of 100 acres.  In spite of the fact that land values have been constantly increasing and that he has placed a number of improvements costing much money, not a cent of indebtedness stands against his property.      Mr. Meyer is a son of the late Dietrich Meyer, who was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1835.  His parents spent all their lives in Hanover and were members of the Lutheran Church.  Reared in Germany, Dietrich Meyer after reaching manhood set out for the United States.  He came over on a sailing vessel and made the passage from Bremen to New York in four weeks.  He first went out to Iowa and while living there enlisted in the Union army and went south to fight for his adopted country.  He was in many of the glorious campaigns of that war.  He was at Lookout Mountain, the battle above the clouds, and in many other battles of the campaign between Chattanooga and Atlanta.  Through he suffered only a slight wound in the shoulder, he experienced such hardships as a soldier that his health was permanently undermined, and his sudden death on Jan. 30, 1887, while on his way home from church was undoubtedly due to his army life.  After securing his honorable discharge, he located in Ohio, and married for his first wife Miss Remmer, a native of Germany.  After his marriage he located on the forty-acre tract of land in section 26 of Freedom Township, which is now owned by his son, Karl.  Mrs. Meyer died there after the birth of one child, William, who died in young manhood.  Dietrich Meyer married for his second wife in Freedom Township Miss Dorothy Cordes, who was born in Hanover Germany.  Her parents died in that country, and she then set out alone as a young woman for the United States.  For some time she was employed at Toledo before her marriage.  Mrs. Dietrich Meyer is still living and on July 5, 1916, celebrated her seventy-seventh birthday, Mrs. Charles Panning at Hamler in Henry County.  She, as was also her husband, is a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church.  Dietrich Meyer was an active democrat.  To their marriage were born eight children, five sons and three daughters, and four sons and one daughter are still living and all married except one.      Karl Meyer was the youngest of the family.  He was married in Freedom Township to Miss Mary Gerken.  Mrs. Meyer was born in Henry County Oct. 30, 1883, was reared and educated here and is a daughter of Henry and Anna (Gathman) Gerkin, who were natives of Germany.  After coming to America they became Henry County farmers, but are now living retired in Napoleon.  The Gerken family are also Lutherans and politically their male members have been democrats.  Mr. and Mrs. Meyer are members of St. John's Lutheran Church, and Mr. Meyer is secretary or church clerk.  Politically he follows the allegiance of the democratic party.  In his household are four children:  Karl, Jr., aged twelve; Hilda, aged ten; Luella, aged eight; and Paulina, aged five. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 873
	WILLIAM H. MEYER.  In the person of William H. Meyer is found a sample of that material which has brought Henry County to the forefront in the field of agricultural endeavor. Endowed with more than average ability, backed by shrewd business judgment, he has prospered beyond the ordinary and is easily one of the leading farmers of Freedom Township.      He carries on his work on his eighty-acre place in section 14 of that township.  He has lived there for the past seven years and has done much in the meantime to give new fertility and productiveness to his land.  His fields of corn, wheat and oats all show thriftiness and good cultivation, and he keeps some excellent grades of livestock.  Seven acres of his farm is in native timber.  His large barn 36 by 70 feet was built in 1909, and he also has a covered feed lot 36 by 48 feet.  The farm buildings are painted red, while his seven-room house, built in the center of the farm, is white with green trimmings.      Mr. Meyer was born on his present farm Jan. 9, 1880, and was reared and educated in Freedom Township and has made this locality the scene of his best endeavors and accomplishments.  He is a son of Fred and Mary (Scheele) Meyer, an old and substantial family elsewhere referred to in this publication.  They had six sons and five daughters, all of whom are married except one son and one daughter, and Mr. Meyer was the third son and fourth child.      In his home township he married Ida Kruse, who was born in Freedom Township in March, 1884, and was reared and educated here.  Her parents are Henry and Sophia (Hogrefe) Kruse, both still living in Freedom Township and representing families that came from Hanover, Germany.  They are members of the Lutheran Church and Mr. Kruse is a democrat.  Mr. and Mrs. Meyer have had born into their home the following children: Alvin, who died at birth; Anna, who died at the age of two years, seven months; Albert H., born Jan. 14, 1911; Alma, born June 5, 1914.  The family are members of St. John's Lutheran Church and politically Mr. Meyer is a democrat. Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 875
	JAMES D. MILLER Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 897
	JOHN M. MILLER Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 935
	HENRY MINK Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 910
	THOMAS MULCAHY Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 1249
	ALEXANDER MYLES Source: History of Northwestern Ohio - Vol. II _ Publ. 1917 - Page 856

 

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