The text of the previous bio was incomplete. Here is the complete biography from the book.
From "Biographical Memoirs of
Wells County,
Indiana," 1903, p. 336.
JONAS
MEYER.
Jonas
MEYER is a son of Peter and Elizabeth (
Mosure)
MEYER, of whom mention is made on another page of this volume, in the sketch of Albert
MEYER. Jonas
MEYER is the fourth child of a family of eight children and was reared to manhood on the home farm in
Harrison township, where his birth took place November 28, 1869. He was educated in the district school, which he attended until sixteen years of age, but worked on the farm industriously throughout his school days when not engaged in study, continuing so to work until he was twenty-one years old, when he began working out at ditching and such other work as he could find to do, appropriating his earnings to his own use, but saving by far the greater portion. In 1894 he engaged in partnership with Daniel
Gilliam in well drilling, working in 1896 with his brother David and in 1897 with Wm. Engler, having saved during that time about two thousand five hundred dollars.
Jonas
MEYER was united in the holy bonds of matrimony with Miss Mary Rich, a daughter of Joseph Rich, of
Adams county, and about the same time he invested his means in an eighty-acre tract of land, for which he paid in full. This farm he has improved with a fine dwelling and also a well built barn, forty by seventy-six feet in dimensions, together with other farm buildings of equally substantial construction. To the marriage of
Jonas and Mary (Rich)
MEYER have been born four children, namely: Joseph, February 21, 1895; Peter, November 21, 1897; Lillie, April 14, 1900, and Chance, born August 8, 1902. Though not active in politics, Mr. Meyer is of Democratic proclivities and usually votes as suits his judgment, irrespective of party nominations. He looks at both sides of a question, weighs the matter carefully and with deliberation, and having thoroughly digested it mentally, arrives at a conclusion decisive and permanent, and this conclusion becomes the rule for his future action. He thus weighs political issues and never permits his prior predilections to interfere with or bias his judgment.
As a farmer, the success of Mr. Meyer has been phenomenal for so young a man, and this fact is but another evidence of the thoroughness with which he studies and weighs everything which comes under his control or his observation. His integrity has never been questioned, and he stands before his fellow citizens the peer of all.