Milton H. Meyer
10 Oct 1862 - 11 Aug 1939
diedTempe, Arizona, USA
bornIllinois, USA
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BiographyBuilding contractor, carpenter, farmer, and dairyman.Came to Tempe c1893.
Attended the Kansas State Agricultural college at Manhattan, and taught five years in Kansas. He came to Arizona in 1892 and started farming near Glendale before moving to Tempe.
He introduced a style and method of using concrete block as a construction material in Tempe. He constructed many buildings in the Valley, including 8 churches in Glendale, Phoenix, and Tempe. He was also was associated with the first major building expansion program at the Territorial Normal School as the principal carpentry contractor for the campus
buildings constructed between 1905-1916. He had financial backing from James W. Woolf, prominent Tempe resident, to establish a local concrete block industry. They built several houses, including a concrete block bungalow for Samuel C. Long at 27 E. 6th Street (1910), a house for Ira Frankenberg at 2080 E. Southern Avenue (1913), and a house for Theodore Dickinson at 129 E. 8th Street.
He retired in 1916 and moved to a dairy ranch south of Tempe. He was active in church work, and assisted in organizing eight churches in the territory.
He served as Justice of the Peace (1898), clerk (1899), and was an officer of the Territorial Guard for thirteen years.
He lived on old Mesa Road, east of Tempe.
OSB 41
HPS-127; HPS-239; HPS-240
Federal census (Tempe), 1900, 1910
Tempe CD, 1898-1914
Double Butte Cemetery, Tempe
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