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MARTIN MEYER was a native of Germany and emigrated to America about the year 1828, when a young man. He was a carpenter by trade and located in Philadelphia, where he married Annie Margaret Blyler, and remained several years engaged in the manufacture of store boxes In 1853 he moved to Lycoming county, locating in Loyalsock township, on the farm now owned by S.J. Sweely, and there resided and engaged extensively in the lumbering business with Isaiah Hayes until his death in 1863. He was a member of the Order of Red Men and of the I.O.O.F. His wife died in 1856, the mother of five children, four of whom are living: John, who was corporal of Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was killed at the battle of Gettysburg; Martin W.; Abraham; George, and Annie M., who married Jacob Edwards.
History of Lycoming County, Pa 1892
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