Lewis Meacham, son of James and Mary F. Mecham, was born at New Haven, Vt., March 8th, 1846. His preparation for college was begun at Farmington, Conn., where he remained one year, and completed at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He left college Junior year, and we are indebted to the kindness of his sister for the facts of his subsequent history. After leaving Amherst, he was tutor for a few months in Christian College, Indiana. But his inclination leading him strongly to journalism, he went to Chicago, where he obtained a position upon the Tribune which he filled until after the great fire. He was then appointed by Mayor Medill as private secretary. In 1874, he returned to Vermont and became local editor of the Rutland Herald, but the following year went again to Chicago, to accept a position upon the editorial staff of the Tribune. This position he occupied until his death, October 2nd, 1878. While his death was terribly sudden, it was not altogether unexpected, as he had long suffered from a wound received in the army, and from ill health contracted there. While busily at work Tuesday morning he was taken sick, and suffered intensely until the next morning, when he died. At a meeting of the members of the Chicago Press, presided over by the Hon. W. K. Sullivan, ex-Mayor Medill spoke with much feeling of Meacham, as a man he had long looked to as an energetic, methodical and conscientious performer of whatsoever duties devolved upon him. When mayor of the city, he could find no man more apt and faithful to fulfill the duty of a secretary, and he discharged that trust with the industry and tact which had characterized his labors in the field of journalism. He regarded him as one of the best "long-Landed" reporters he had ever known. At this meeting a suitable memorial, expressive of appreciation, regret and sympathy, was adopted, as also by the Illinois Association of the Sons of Vermont. The funeral services were conducted at the chapel at Oakwood Cemetery, by Rev. G. N. Boardman, D. D., of the Chicago Theological Seminary.

Published in the Decennial Record of the Class of 1869, Amherst College. MacNamara Printers, New York, 1879, pp. 43-44, in a section entitled "Biographical Record of Non-Graduates".

Lewis Meacham, son of James and Mary F. Mecham, was born at New Haven, Vt., March 8th, 1846. His preparation for college was begun at Farmington, Conn., where he remained one year, and completed at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. He left college Junior year, and we are indebted to the kindness of his sister for the facts of his subsequent history. After leaving Amherst, he was tutor for a few months in Christian College, Indiana. But his inclination leading him strongly to journalism, he went to Chicago, where he obtained a position upon the Tribune which he filled until after the great fire. He was then appointed by Mayor Medill as private secretary. In 1874, he returned to Vermont and became local editor of the Rutland Herald, but the following year went again to Chicago, to accept a position upon the editorial staff of the Tribune. This position he occupied until his death, October 2nd, 1878. While his death was terribly sudden, it was not altogether unexpected, as he had long suffered from a wound received in the army, and from ill health contracted there. While busily at work Tuesday morning he was taken sick, and suffered intensely until the next morning, when he died. At a meeting of the members of the Chicago Press, presided over by the Hon. W. K. Sullivan, ex-Mayor Medill spoke with much feeling of Meacham, as a man he had long looked to as an energetic, methodical and conscientious performer of whatsoever duties devolved upon him. When mayor of the city, he could find no man more apt and faithful to fulfill the duty of a secretary, and he discharged that trust with the industry and tact which had characterized his labors in the field of journalism. He regarded him as one of the best "long-Landed" reporters he had ever known. At this meeting a suitable memorial, expressive of appreciation, regret and sympathy, was adopted, as also by the Illinois Association of the Sons of Vermont. The funeral services were conducted at the chapel at Oakwood Cemetery, by Rev. G. N. Boardman, D. D., of the Chicago Theological Seminary.

Published in the Decennial Record of the Class of 1869, Amherst College. MacNamara Printers, New York, 1879, pp. 43-44, in a section entitled "Biographical Record of Non-Graduates".