Jacob Edwin Meeker

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Jacob Edwin Meeker

| image = JacobEdwinMeeker.jpg

| alt =

| caption =

| state = Missouri

| district = 10th

| term_start = March 4, 1915

| term_end = October 16, 1918

| predecessor = Richard Bartholdt

| successor = Frederick Essen

| birth_date = {{birth date|1878|10|7}}

| birth_place = Attica, Indiana, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1918|10|16|1878|10|7}}

| death_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

| death_cause = Spanish flu

| resting_place = Union Cemetery, Attica, Indiana, U.S.

| party = Republican

}}

Jacob Edwin Meeker (October 7, 1878 – October 16, 1918) was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.

Background

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 was ordained as a minister in 1901 and assumed his duties in Vermilion County.

He was a missionary in Eldon, Missouri, for the Congregational Church in 1904. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906 to take charge of the Compton Hill Congregational Church. He resigned in 1912. He studied law at Benton College of Law and was admitted to the bar in 1914.

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.lakeexpo.com/news/lake_news/when-the-deadly-spanish-flu-hit-st-louis-shut-down/article_5d1fcd8e-126c-11e8-9fd7-679bcb97b111.html |title=When The 1918 Deadly Spanish Flu Hit, St. Louis Shut Down. The Quarantine Saved Countless Lives

|first=Blythe |last=Bernhard|date= February 15, 2018 |work=LakeExpo |quote=Jacob Meeker, a St. Louis congressman, died Oct. 16, six days after touring Jefferson Barracks. He was 40.}}

He was interred in Union Cemetery, Attica, Indiana.{{CongBio|M000629}}

References

[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t86h4n82z;view=1up;seq=3 Jacob E. Meeker, late a representative from Missouri, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1920]

{{US House succession box

| state=Missouri

| district=10

| before=Richard Bartholdt

| after=Frederick Essen

| years=1915–1918}}

Category:1878 births

Category:1918 deaths

Category:American Congregationalist missionaries

Category:Congregationalist missionaries in the United States

Category:American Congregationalist ministers

Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri