CHRISTENING: Rob's book says he was christened 11 Feb 1866 20th Ward, Salt Lake City, Utah. (???Age 4 ???)
DEATH: Death date possibly Oct 11
BURIAL: Laid to rest in the Salt Lake City Cemetery
CHRISTENING: Christened in S. Cottonwood Ward
BIRTH: Birth possibly Cottonwood, UT - says in Rob's Pedigree chart.
Middle name something like Elnathan or Elnothan
BIOGRAPHY: The Centennial History of Oregon (p. 468)
BIOGRAPHY: WILLIAM MEYER, a well known farmer and dairyman living near Baker City, Baker county, was born in Missouri, May 1, 1848. His parents were John H. and Gesche (Hink) Meyer, both of whom were natives of Germany. William Meyer received a common-school education in the German language in Missouri, where his youth was spent. He remained at home until eighteen years of age and then went to Kansas, where he remained for a time and then removed to Arkansas in 1870, purchasing a farm and residing on it for four years. He then determined to press on to the Pacific coast and in 1875 with mule teams drove across the plains to Baker county, Oregon, where in 1877 he took up a homestead near Durkee, on Burnt River. He lived on this farm until 1910 and then bought forty acres more, upon which he and his family still reside. He is making a specialty of the dairy business, disposing of the milk in Baker City. He has brought the farm under a high state of cultivation and placed on it good improvements.
BIOGRAPHY: Mr. Meyer was married in Kansas to Miss Sarah P. Glenn and to this union nine children were born: Gusta; Gesche, deceased; Eva; May; Anna; Minnie; Louis; Grace, deceased; and Gertrude. Mr. Meyer is much interested in educational matters and has given a great deal of attention to the local schools, of which he was a director for two terms. He is also a church member, and by his honorable dealings with the people with whom he trades he has acquired a well earned reputation for honesty, industry and business capacity. The family is well known and respected and have long been recognized as being among the best people of the community.
DEATH: Death certificate hard to read. I believe cause of death says: Shock from crushing injury of both legs/left arm
DEATH: WILLIAM MEYER PIONEER FARMER (30 July 1918)
DEATH: Funeral of Railroad Victim at Durkee Saturday Morning
DEATH: William Meyer, who was killed by an O.W. train at Durkee Wednesday afternoon, was one of the oldest and best known of the pioneer residents of that section. He had been a resident of Baker County since 1875, and had made Durkee his home ever since 1877. He owned, and when young operated several ranches in that section, and also at one time the Deardorff ranch near Baker.
DEATH: Mr. Meyer was born in Missouri, in 1848. He removed to Kansas when a young man and was married at Girard, in that state, to Miss Sarah Glenn, in 1868. She came with him to Oregon and passed away at Durkee in 1893.
DEATH: Deceased is survived by six daughters and one son. Mrs. John Cobbs, Mrs. Albert Hindman, Mrs. Ed Graves and Mrs. Gertrude Day, of Durkee, Mrs. Glenn Votaw, of Portland, Mrs. Charles Deardorff, of Baker, and Louis Meyer, of this city.
DEATH: The death of Mr. Meyer was a shock to the people of Durkee, where he had lived so long. Although 70 years of age, he had been in the best of health and led an active outdoor life, cultivating a small tract of land by himself for the sake of having something to do, preferring to keep busy rather than to lead a life of idleness, which his years and means entitled him to, had he so desired.
DEATH: After the accident he was brought to Baker on the caboose of the train which hit him, and while it was seen from the first that his injuries would prove fatal, he lived until they reached Baker, being conscious to the last and talking with members of his family who made the trip with him.
DEATH: The remains are at the West & Company chapel here, and will be shipped to Durkee tomorrow morning on the early train. The funeral will be held at the Durkee Church at 10:30 o'clock in the morning with Rev. W. W. Crist, of Middleton, Idaho, officiating.