Meredith, Solomon
soldier, state legislator, was born May 29, 1810, in Guilford county, N. C. He was chosen sheriff of Fort Wayne county, Ind., in 1834 and 1836, thrice elected to legislature in 1846- 48, and in 1849 became United States marshal for the district of Indiana. In 1854 he was again chosen to the legislature. In July, 1861, he became colonel of the nineteenth Indiana regiment, which saw its first service in Virginia, and lost half its effective force at Gainesville, where he was wounded. He died Oct. 21, 1875, in Cambridge City, Ind.