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A former variant name was Cochranton, [1] after Col. William Cochran, the original owner of the town site. [2] A post office called Cochranton was established in 1829, the name was changed to Meeker in 1908, and the post office closed in 1943. [3]
Thompson Lake is a lake in Meeker County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. [1] Thompson Lake bears the name of a pioneer settler. [2] See also
Litchfield Township is a township in Meeker County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 808 at the 2000 census. The population was 808 at the 2000 census. The township includes most of the city of Litchfield , except for a small protrusion northeast into Forest City Township and another small one due east into Darwin Township.
Meeker County's terrain consists of low rolling hills, lightly wooded and heavily dotted with lakes and ponds. The available area is devoted to agriculture. [9] The terrain slopes to the south and east, [10] with its highest point just southwest of Lake Hope, 7.9 miles (12.7 km) west-southwest of Litchfield, at 1,261 ft (384 m) ASL. [11]
104 Old South Road, home of Paschal Sheffield, a privateer for Argentina during its war for independence from Spain; 824 Harbor Road, Meeker House, built prior to 1766, only structure that is known to have survived the British burning of Southport in 1779; 25 Westway Road, built in 1856, has gingerbread trim; 95 Westway Road, built in 1840
[1] [3] Meeker was a charter member of the Minnesota Historical Society and also served on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents. [1] He owned land on the Mississippi River, including Meeker Island, which was named after him. In 1856, he had a county named in his honour. [4] Meeker died suddenly in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on February 19 ...
Meeker's grave at Graceland Cemetery. Letters he wrote to his family from Europe in the 1930s suggest he was homosexual. [12] He had a thirty-year relationship with Robert Molnar, with whom he lived from at least 1940 until Meeker's death in their New York City home on October 22, 1971. [12] Meeker named Molnar his heir. [12]
Ezra Morgan Meeker [a] (December 29, 1830 – December 3, 1928) was an American pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast.