Meyer, Carl J. H.

Born: 1838-09-18 Germany

Died: 1900-08-17 Highland, Illinois

Alternate name: Meyer, Charles

Charles Meyer was a farmer and a Republican. Born as Carl J. H. Meyer, he immigrated to Highland, Illinois, in 1854 and went by the name Charles Meyer. He was a member of and the secretary of the Highland Republican Club at least as early as August 1858.

History of Madison County, Illinois (Edwardsville, IL: W. R. Brink, 1882), 569; John Blattner and Others to Abraham Lincoln and Lyman Trumbull; Carl J. H. Meyer, Gravestone, Highland Cemetery, Highland, IL.