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Subject: Meyer.H.h.1815.Kenton.BIOS


H.h. Meyer 1815 - unknown
Kenton County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin

H. H. MEYER was born in Schwagstorf, Amt Furstenau, Kingdom of Hanover, 
Germany, in 1815, and is a son of Henry and Ctaherine [sic] (Rolfes) Meyer, of 
Germany. H. H. Meyer was educated in Germany, and immigrated to America in 
1836. He first settled in Cincinnati, where he engaged in making turnpikes for 
five years; from there he went to Covington, Ky., where he worked as a stone- mason for two years, after which he worked in the City National Bank, attending 
to all the outside business for fourteen years; he has been agent for R. E. 
Grosbeck, in Philadelphia, Penn., for property in Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
Kentucky, for forty years. In 1840 he married Antionette Francisca Rehling, a 
native of Germany, born in Alfhausen, Amt Berstenbrick, in 1815, and who died 
in 1873, leaving three children: Lizzie (wife of Henry Duval, of Covington), 
Kate and Mary. Mr. Meyer is a member of the Mother of God Catholic Church, and 
treasurer in the church for seven years, and in politics is a Democrat. 
 

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