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Moses Meeker

MEEKER, Moses, pioneer, born in Newark, New Jersey, 17 June, 1790; died in Skullsburg, Wisconsin, 7 July, 1865. He removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1817, and engaged in the manufacture of white lead till 1822. He then led a pioneer expedition to the then Indian settlement of Galena, Ilk, and was the first to engage in smelting lead-ore. He served in the Black Hawk war as captain of a volunteer company, and at the close of hostilities removed to Iowa. county, Wisconsin, where he built the first smelting-furnaces in that territory. He served in the Wisconsin legislature in 1840-'3 and in the first constitutional convention in 1846. He published an " History of the Early Lead Regions" in the sixth volume of the "Wisconsin Historical Society Collections" (Madison, 1864).

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in Congress Assembled
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