Sacramento County
Biographies
THOMAS JEFFERSON MEALER
This enterprising and progressive citizen
of Walnut Grove, Sacramento county, who is now serving his fellow citizens in
his second term as justice of the peace of Georgianna
township, was born near Franklin, this county, October 12, 1868, the son of
Jefferson Mealer, who came across the plains to
Sacramento county, with an ox-team outfit, with the pioneers of 1850, and lived
here until 1904, when he died.
Such education as
was available to him Thomas J. Mealer acquired
in public schools near his boyhood home. From his childhood he was
interested in horses and as a young man he handled and broke them with great
success, and he still follows this business to a large extent. In 1884 he
moved to Santa Clara county, but after some years
returned to Sacramento county and in 1907 bought one hundred and seventeen
acres of land on Andrus Island which he devotes to fruit and vegetable raising,
making a specialty of asparagus and nutmeg melons, besides giving some attention
to the raising of horses for the market.
Near Lodi, in 1895 Mr. Mealer
was first married to Margaret M. Davies, a native of Salt Lake City, the
daughter of William T. and Mentha Davies of Galt,
this county. They had two children; Loyal D. is a student in the
Sacramento high school, Darrell T., in the class 1913 Walnut Grove school. Mrs. Mealer died in
1908, and in Rio Vista, August 25, 1904, Mr. Mealer married Mary S. Seehorn, a
native of Virginia, who was brought to California in her childhood. Her father,
Russell C. Seehorn, was a teacher in Virginia and a
farmer in California, now eighty-one years of age.
Mr. Mealer is a
member of the Elk Grove Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons and of the Onisbo Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, of Courtland; Isleton
Lodge No. 108, I. O. O. F.; Occidental
Encampment, Sacramento; and Canton No. 1, Patriarch Militant in
Sacramento, while he and his wife are members of the Rebekah
Lodge of Isleton. His sons are both interested in wireless telegraphy and
have a station on the ranch. In everything that pertains to the general
advancement and development of the community Mr. Mealer
is deeply interested and his generous support of many measures for the benefit
of his community and county has amply demonstrated his public spirit.
Mrs. Mealer is a member of Rio Vista Chapter, O. E.
S.
Transcribed by Sally Kaleta.
Source: Willis,
William L., History of Sacramento County,
California, Pages 724-727. Historic
Record Company,
© 2006 Sally Kaleta.