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It is located 660 Thompson Lane, a site rich in history. The land was originally a Revolutionary War land grant of 968 acres given to John Topp in 1788, [1] eight years before Tennessee became a US state. In 1836 it became known as "Melrose" when US Senator Alexander Barrow purchased it and built a fine mansion with that name.
King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
U.S. Highway 12 and Minnesota State Highways 22 and 24 are three of the main routes in the city. US 12 leads east 17 miles (27 km) to Cokato and west 30 miles (48 km) to Willmar ; MN 22 leads north 24 miles (39 km) to Richmond and south-southeast 21 miles (34 km) to Hutchinson , and MN 24 leads north 22 miles (35 km) to Kimball .
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]
Nathan Cook Meeker was born in Euclid, Ohio on July 12, 1817, [1] [a] to Enoch and Lurana Meeker. [1] He had three brothers. Meeker was a writer and submitted articles to area publications when he was a boy. [1] He left home at 17 years-of-age for New Orleans, where he worked as a copy boy for the New Orleans Picayune.
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
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.