Surnames: Anderson, Meyer, Phelps,
Regions: Lancaster, Grant Co., WI; -
Peterboro, Madison Co., NY; - Portage Co., WI
Source: Ellis Baker Usher. Wisconsin It's Story
and Biography 1848-1913 -
President Wisconsin Archaeological Society; Member of the American
Historical Association,
The Mississippi Valley Historical Association, The Wisconsin State
Historical Society and the
American Political Science Association. Chicago and New York, The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1914 - 8 vols.
Vol 5; Pages 1146-1148
| Juliet D. Meyer was born in Philadelphia, Penn., and
is a daughter of Richard and Martha P. Phelps Meyer, the former of whom was
a native of Germany and in early life was private secretary for Eastwick,
Winans & Co., who built the first railroad from Moscow to St. Petersburg,
russia, for the government.
When yet a young man he emigrated to America, locating in Philadelphia as a merchant, and there marrying. After a residence in the Quaker City of a few years, he came, in 1858 to Wisconsin, settling in Lancaster, Grant County, engaging in a mercantile and banking business where he still resides. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer were the parents of seven children, five of whom are yet living: Richard, Frederick P., Nettie E., Jessie M. and Mrs.Webster E. Brown. Mrs. Brown is an educated and refined lady, and a graduate, in 1875, of the Wisconsin State University, after which she taught in the high schools at Lancaster and Madison, Wis., two years. To Mr. and Mrs. Brown have been born seven children, five of whom are now living, to wit: Ralph D., Edna M., Dorothy, Richard M. and Allan D. |
