Meyer, John
soldier, farmer, merchant, legislator, was born Feb. 26, 1826, near Bellefonte, Pa. In 1846 he attended the Mifflinburg academy, Pennsylvania; in 1853 he graduated from the Oberlin college, Ohio, and subsequently taught in the common and academic schools, and in Oberlin college. In 1861 he was a representative in the ninth general assembly of Iowa.
Iowa. In 1862 he was captain of company K, twenty-eighth regiment Iowa volunteer infantry; served three years in the war; was in many hard-fought battles, and for bravery was commissioned major and colonel. In 1865 he was elected state senator, and served in the eleventh and twelfth assemblies, and again served with distinction in the seventeenth and eighteenth general assemblies. In 1878 he was a Grant elector; has been trustee and treasurer of the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' home; has been a trustee of the Iowa college since 1860; for sixteen years was chairman of the committee of instruction and instructors; for twelve years was president of the school board; for ten years was city councilman of Newton, Iowa; and was an original abolitionist and a conductor on the underground railroad.