THOMAS O. MEREDITH was born in Bryn Mawr, Monmouthshire, Wales, on December 12, 1844. He came to Wisconsin in 1853 with his mother and father, Thomas Meredith, Sr., and to Cass County, Iowa, when the family located here in 1854. At age twenty-eight he went into business at Avoca selling farm implements. Twelve years later he moved to Marne and opened a general store, which he operated for ten years. Twelve years later he moved to Marne and opened a general store, which he operated for ten years. Besides his land in Cass County, Thomas O. Meredith owned farmland in Red Willow County, Nebraska. He married Minerva J. Marsh on January 1, 1873 and they had seven children - Edwin T., Clarence P., Arthur J., Isabella, Ezra, Henry and Owen. Edwin T. Meredith, son of Thomas O. Meredith, was the Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, founder of Meredith Publishing Company, now Meredith Corporation, and U. S. Secretary of Agriculture during the Woodrow Wilson administration.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pg. 35. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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