"John P Meyer was born in Hanover Germany, in 1822. After gaining a common school education he entered the German army when about eighteen, served five years, and was still a young man, about twenty-three when he came to the United States. He crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel, and soon after landing came west as far as Erie County. In Vermilion Township he found employment on a farm, also worked in the Furnace at Furnace Corners, a short distance south of Vermilion Village, and still later was employed as a section man on the Lake Shore Rail-road. That was his varied line of work up to 1872. In that year he moved to the Bartow Ridge Road, bought eighty acres of land, increased it by another ten acres, and by hard work and intelligent management pursued agriculture on a profitable scale so that his last years were spent in plenty and comfort. He died January 28, 1911, when in his eighty-ninth year. He retained his facilities almost to the end. As a child he had been confirmed in the German Reform Church." From the History of Erie County
"John P Meyer was born in Hanover Germany, in 1822. After gaining a common school education he entered the German army when about eighteen, served five years, and was still a young man, about twenty-three when he came to the United States. He crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel, and soon after landing came west as far as Erie County. In Vermilion Township he found employment on a farm, also worked in the Furnace at Furnace Corners, a short distance south of Vermilion Village, and still later was employed as a section man on the Lake Shore Rail-road. That was his varied line of work up to 1872. In that year he moved to the Bartow Ridge Road, bought eighty acres of land, increased it by another ten acres, and by hard work and intelligent management pursued agriculture on a profitable scale so that his last years were spent in plenty and comfort. He died January 28, 1911, when in his eighty-ninth year. He retained his facilities almost to the end. As a child he had been confirmed in the German Reform Church." From the History of Erie County
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