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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]
The Meeker Mansion Museum is a historic house in Puyallup, Washington, United States. It is the second of two homes in the city which were resided in by Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker, the first one being a cabin on the homestead claim which Meeker as well as Hunter Thompson and Will Brines purchased from Jerry Stilly in 1862. This was a one ...
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.
Mourners gather at the Supreme Court after the announcement of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death Courtroom with Ginsburg's seat draped in black, the day after her death. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer on September 18, 2020, at the age of 87.
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.
Born near Attica, Indiana, Meeker attended the public schools. He graduated from Union Christian College, Merom, Indiana, in 1900, and from Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1904. While a student at Union Christian College he became pastor of a rural church in Vermilion County, Illinois. He was ordained as a minister in 1901 and assumed his ...
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]