Jacob Edwin Meeker

Born near Attica, Indiana, Meeker attended the public schools.He graduated from Union Christian College, Merom, Indiana, in 1900, and from Oberlin Theological Seminary in 1904.While a student at Union Christian College he became pastor of a rural church in Vermilion County, Illinois.He moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906 to take charge of the Compton Hill Congregational Church.Meeker was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses and served from March 4, 1915, until his death from Spanish flu in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 16, 1918.
U.S. House of RepresentativesMissouriRichard BartholdtFrederick EssenAttica, IndianaSt. Louis, MissouriSpanish fluRepublicanU.S. RepresentativeMerom, IndianaOberlin Theological SeminaryVermilion County, IllinoisEldon, MissouriBenton College of LawList of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)Biographical Directory of the United States CongressU.S. House of RepresentativesMissouri's 10th congressional district