Meyer, Reinhard,

Farmer, Sec. 26; P.O. State Centre; was born March 3, 1840, in Germany; in 1857, he came to New York, then to Stephenson County, Ill.; in 1877, he came to his present farm; owns 160 acres, valued at $30 per acre. His father was born in Germany in 1800, and died in Stephenson Co., Ill., in 1865; his mother was born in 1812, and lives in Stephenson Co., Ill.

p.589, Eden Township

--Taken from “The History of Marshall County Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, &r.,” and published by Western Historical Company of Chicago in 1878.

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