[Ancestor] Meyer

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1 M Henry Meyer ^{1 2}

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Meyer

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Hon. Henry Meyer, a prominent and highly respected resident of Miles township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, has just completed, after several years of tedious labor, the manuscript of a second edition of his "Genealogy of the Meyer Family." He prepared the following sketch.
The Meyers are a numerous family, and are largely represented in most of the states westward from Pennsylvania to California. This sketch therefore will state merely a few facts in reference to the early Meyer settlement in America, and trace the lineage of such descendants of the Meyer who immigrated from the old country, as were citizens at one time or other of the counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder, Pennsylvania, thus showing the connecting links between the many individual members of the family.

A brief reference to the name itself is proper since it is written in so many different ways. It is German, and like so many other family names of that and other languages, it has undergone changes in its translation into English and its transmission from generation to generation. It is spelled in at least eleven different ways, viz.: Meyer, Mayer, Myer, Meyers, Myers, Mover, Moyers, Mire, Meier, Meire, and Maire.
The records show that a large number of Meyer immigrants came from the old country from 1725 to 1776, and no doubt quite a number before that period and since. It should not be assumed that they were all of kin. In all parts of Holland and Germany the name is as frequently met with as the name Smith in America. ²

1 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 214.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 140.