MEADER, TIMOTHY E. , was born Nov. 25, 1800, in Rochester, N. H. When a young man he spent several years in Maine, part of the time in teaching, and part of the time in the tanning and currying business. In 1834 he set out for a visit to the west. He traveled by stage and canal to Buffalo, and from there to Chicago by sailing vessel and was seven weeks traveling from Maine to Chicago. He went down Des Plaines river in a canoe, and found a tribe of Indians camped at the mouth of the river. He went from Hennepin to Beardstown by steamboat, and walked from the latter place to Springfield, arriving in June. He next went to St. Lois, thence to New Orleans, and embarked on a sailing vessel for Boston, arriving in that city in Jan. 1835. He returned to Springfield in 1836, and remained until 1839, during which time he bought and improved a piece of land in what is now Pawnee township. In the fall of 1839 he retuned east, and was married Nov. 8, 1839, in Dover, N. H. to Miriam H. Trickey. She was born Feb. 8, 1802, at Brookfield, N. H. They went the same fall they were married to Plattville, Wis., and in the winter of 1840 '41 started for Sangamon county in a sleigh, and came the whole distance that way, although they had to wait several times for snow, but they arrived safely at their home in Pawnee township. They have only one child:

VIENNA, born April 21, 1843, in Sangamon county, married George P. Weber. See his name.

Timothy Meader and wife are both living on Brush creek, between Pawnee and Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois - 1876.