William was the son of Elizabeth (Johnson) and William Meek. He was the grandson of Anne (Alexander) and Abel Johnson.
William Meek — This gentleman was the model farmer of Alameda County. His residence was at San Lorenzo, and his ranch extended towards Haywards more than three miles. He left Van Buren County, Iowa, on the first day of April, 1847, and crossed overland to Oregon City, where he arrived on the 9th day of September, the same year, with a large party of immigrants. Among Mr. Meek's effects was a wagon loaded with fruit-trees and seeds. This constituted the first lot of grafted fruit-trees on the Pacific Coast. There were seedlings already in the country, introduced by the Hudson's Bay Company.
Locating at the town of Milwaukee, on the Willamette River, five miles from Portland, he went into the nursery business in June 1848, with H. Lewelling, whom he had known in Iowa. In the fall of 1848, he went to the California gold-mines with an ox-team, and remained till the following May. The party he came to California with, made the first wagon track from Oregon to California, passing through the Modoc country, and skirting its lava-beds. On his return to Oregon he continued fruit-growing and lumbering till December, 1859. That year he sold out in Oregon, and removed to San Lorenzo, in Alameda County. His first purchase of land was four hundred acres of H. W. Crabb. This land originally belonged to the Soto grant.
He subsequently bought one thousand six hundred acres more, which made two thousand acres. At first he devoted his attention to grain-growing and general farming. He managed his land with skill, and followed a .system of rotation of crops. No man ever bestowed more care and attention on his land, or experimented more successfully. He built a water-reservoir in the foot-hills, about three and a half miles from his home, the water is conducted in pipes through his lands for irrigation, and general purposes. Mr. Meek was elected County Supervisor for four terms, commencing in 1862. He was a native of Ohio, and had reached his sixty-fifth year at the time of his death. He left a wife and five children, one of whom is married.
"History Of Alameda County, California..." By M. W. Wood, J. P. Munro-Fraser; Pacific Press, Oakland, CA 1883
Oregon, Early Oregonians Name: William Meek
Birth Date: 18 Nov 1818, Birth Place: Wayne, Ohio, USA
Death Date: 27 Dec 1880, Death Place: Alameda, California, USA
Gravestone inscription:
William Meek
died Dec. 27, 1880
aged 63 yrs 1 mo 9 days
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On same gravestone is:
Fidelia Meek
died Aug. 30, 1891
aged 58 yrs 8 mos 11 days
William Meek — This gentleman was the model farmer of Alameda County. His residence was at San Lorenzo, and his ranch extended towards Haywards more than three miles. He left Van Buren County, Iowa, on the first day of April, 1847, and crossed overland to Oregon City, where he arrived on the 9th day of September, the same year, with a large party of immigrants. Among Mr. Meek's effects was a wagon loaded with fruit-trees and seeds. This constituted the first lot of grafted fruit-trees on the Pacific Coast. There were seedlings already in the country, introduced by the Hudson's Bay Company.
Locating at the town of Milwaukee, on the Willamette River, five miles from Portland, he went into the nursery business in June 1848, with H. Lewelling, whom he had known in Iowa. In the fall of 1848, he went to the California gold-mines with an ox-team, and remained till the following May. The party he came to California with, made the first wagon track from Oregon to California, passing through the Modoc country, and skirting its lava-beds. On his return to Oregon he continued fruit-growing and lumbering till December, 1859. That year he sold out in Oregon, and removed to San Lorenzo, in Alameda County. His first purchase of land was four hundred acres of H. W. Crabb. This land originally belonged to the Soto grant.
He subsequently bought one thousand six hundred acres more, which made two thousand acres. At first he devoted his attention to grain-growing and general farming. He managed his land with skill, and followed a .system of rotation of crops. No man ever bestowed more care and attention on his land, or experimented more successfully. He built a water-reservoir in the foot-hills, about three and a half miles from his home, the water is conducted in pipes through his lands for irrigation, and general purposes. Mr. Meek was elected County Supervisor for four terms, commencing in 1862. He was a native of Ohio, and had reached his sixty-fifth year at the time of his death. He left a wife and five children, one of whom is married.
"History Of Alameda County, California..." By M. W. Wood, J. P. Munro-Fraser; Pacific Press, Oakland, CA 1883
Oregon, Early Oregonians Name: William Meek
Birth Date: 18 Nov 1818, Birth Place: Wayne, Ohio, USA
Death Date: 27 Dec 1880, Death Place: Alameda, California, USA
Gravestone inscription:
William Meek
died Dec. 27, 1880
aged 63 yrs 1 mo 9 days
=============
On same gravestone is:
Fidelia Meek
died Aug. 30, 1891
aged 58 yrs 8 mos 11 days
William was the son of Elizabeth (Johnson) and William Meek. He was the grandson of Anne (Alexander) and Abel Johnson.
William Meek — This gentleman was the model farmer of Alameda County. His residence was at San Lorenzo, and his ranch extended towards Haywards more than three miles. He left Van Buren County, Iowa, on the first day of April, 1847, and crossed overland to Oregon City, where he arrived on the 9th day of September, the same year, with a large party of immigrants. Among Mr. Meek's effects was a wagon loaded with fruit-trees and seeds. This constituted the first lot of grafted fruit-trees on the Pacific Coast. There were seedlings already in the country, introduced by the Hudson's Bay Company.
Locating at the town of Milwaukee, on the Willamette River, five miles from Portland, he went into the nursery business in June 1848, with H. Lewelling, whom he had known in Iowa. In the fall of 1848, he went to the California gold-mines with an ox-team, and remained till the following May. The party he came to California with, made the first wagon track from Oregon to California, passing through the Modoc country, and skirting its lava-beds. On his return to Oregon he continued fruit-growing and lumbering till December, 1859. That year he sold out in Oregon, and removed to San Lorenzo, in Alameda County. His first purchase of land was four hundred acres of H. W. Crabb. This land originally belonged to the Soto grant.
He subsequently bought one thousand six hundred acres more, which made two thousand acres. At first he devoted his attention to grain-growing and general farming. He managed his land with skill, and followed a .system of rotation of crops. No man ever bestowed more care and attention on his land, or experimented more successfully. He built a water-reservoir in the foot-hills, about three and a half miles from his home, the water is conducted in pipes through his lands for irrigation, and general purposes. Mr. Meek was elected County Supervisor for four terms, commencing in 1862. He was a native of Ohio, and had reached his sixty-fifth year at the time of his death. He left a wife and five children, one of whom is married.
"History Of Alameda County, California..." By M. W. Wood, J. P. Munro-Fraser; Pacific Press, Oakland, CA 1883
Oregon, Early Oregonians Name: William Meek
Birth Date: 18 Nov 1818, Birth Place: Wayne, Ohio, USA
Death Date: 27 Dec 1880, Death Place: Alameda, California, USA
Gravestone inscription:
William Meek
died Dec. 27, 1880
aged 63 yrs 1 mo 9 days
=============
On same gravestone is:
Fidelia Meek
died Aug. 30, 1891
aged 58 yrs 8 mos 11 days
William Meek — This gentleman was the model farmer of Alameda County. His residence was at San Lorenzo, and his ranch extended towards Haywards more than three miles. He left Van Buren County, Iowa, on the first day of April, 1847, and crossed overland to Oregon City, where he arrived on the 9th day of September, the same year, with a large party of immigrants. Among Mr. Meek's effects was a wagon loaded with fruit-trees and seeds. This constituted the first lot of grafted fruit-trees on the Pacific Coast. There were seedlings already in the country, introduced by the Hudson's Bay Company.
Locating at the town of Milwaukee, on the Willamette River, five miles from Portland, he went into the nursery business in June 1848, with H. Lewelling, whom he had known in Iowa. In the fall of 1848, he went to the California gold-mines with an ox-team, and remained till the following May. The party he came to California with, made the first wagon track from Oregon to California, passing through the Modoc country, and skirting its lava-beds. On his return to Oregon he continued fruit-growing and lumbering till December, 1859. That year he sold out in Oregon, and removed to San Lorenzo, in Alameda County. His first purchase of land was four hundred acres of H. W. Crabb. This land originally belonged to the Soto grant.
He subsequently bought one thousand six hundred acres more, which made two thousand acres. At first he devoted his attention to grain-growing and general farming. He managed his land with skill, and followed a .system of rotation of crops. No man ever bestowed more care and attention on his land, or experimented more successfully. He built a water-reservoir in the foot-hills, about three and a half miles from his home, the water is conducted in pipes through his lands for irrigation, and general purposes. Mr. Meek was elected County Supervisor for four terms, commencing in 1862. He was a native of Ohio, and had reached his sixty-fifth year at the time of his death. He left a wife and five children, one of whom is married.
"History Of Alameda County, California..." By M. W. Wood, J. P. Munro-Fraser; Pacific Press, Oakland, CA 1883
Oregon, Early Oregonians Name: William Meek
Birth Date: 18 Nov 1818, Birth Place: Wayne, Ohio, USA
Death Date: 27 Dec 1880, Death Place: Alameda, California, USA
Gravestone inscription:
William Meek
died Dec. 27, 1880
aged 63 yrs 1 mo 9 days
=============
On same gravestone is:
Fidelia Meek
died Aug. 30, 1891
aged 58 yrs 8 mos 11 days
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