Dickinson Co., KS AHGP-Portrait and
Biographical Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and
Marion Counties-J. Stubbins Meek
Portrait and Biographical
Album of Dickinson, Saline, McPherson and Marion
Counties
Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1893
J. STUBBINS MEEK is a wide-awake and enterprising
young man of Dickinson County
residing on section 18, Hope Township. A
native of Tennessee, he was born in Knox
County, on the 8th of May, 1861. His parents,
William E. A. and Mary Hester (White) Meek,
were also natives of the same county, and are
represented elsewhere in this work. Under the parental
roof our subject spent the days of his
boyhood and youth, no event of special importance
occurring to vary the monotony of farm life.
When he was a lad of eleven summers his family
came to Kansas, where he has since resided. He is
the third in order of birth of four children.
On the 20th of January, 1886, Mr. Meek was
united in the holy bonds of matrimony with Miss
Dell R. Johnson, daughter of Charles H. Johnson,
now of Hope Township. The lady is a native of
Michigan, her birth having occurred in Livingston
County, December 3, 1869. Their union has
been blessed with a little daughter, Mabel, who
was born in January, 1887, and is now five years
of age.
The occupation to which he was reared Mr.
Meek has made his life work, and he is now
engaged in general farming on section 18, Hope
Township, where he owns one hundred and forty six
acres of arable land, which he has placed under
a high state of cultivation. He has also made
many good improvements, and the neat appearance
of the place indicates the supervision of a careful
manager. In politics, he is a member of the People's
party, and was twice elected Township Treasurer
by the Farmers' Alliance. While filling that
office he discharged his duties with credit to himself
and to the satisfaction of his constituents.
He is a faithful and consistent member of the
Presbyterian Church, in which he holds the office
of Deacon, contributes liberally to its support, and
is one of the active workers. Mr. Meek is a popular
man, whose sterling worth and many excellencies
of character have won him the confidence and
good-will of all with whom business or social relations
have brought him in contact.
(c) 2009 Sheryl McClure for
Dickinson County KS AHGP