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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriJacob Edwin MEEKER
(1878-1918)
MEEKER, Jacob Edwin, a
Representative from Missouri; born near Attica, Fountain County,
Ind., October 7, 1878; attended the public schools; was graduated
from Union Christian College, Merom, Ind., in 1900, and from
Oberlin (Ohio) Theological Seminary in 1904; while a student at
Union Christian College he became pastor of a rural church in
Vermilion County, Ill.; was ordained as a minister in 1901 and
assumed his duties in Vermilion County, Ill.; missionary at Eldon,
Mo., for the Congregational Church in 1904; moved to St. Louis,
Mo., in 1906 to take charge of the Compton Hill Congregational
Church; resigned in 1912; studied law at Benton College of Law and
was admitted to the bar in 1914; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4,
1915, until his death in St. Louis, Mo., October 16, 1918;
interment in Union Cemetery, Attica, Ind.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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