Ezra Meeker
Ezra Manning Meeker was born in Butler County, Ohio, on December 29, 1830. Meeker and his family moved to Indiana when he was a boy. He married Eliza Jane Sumner in 1851; the couple, with Ezra’s brother and with their newborn son, set out for the Oregon Territory. They settled at what is now Puyallup in 1862, where Meeker grew...
