Carl Meyer

As printed in 1904

CARL MEYER.

Carl Meyer, who is engaged in the insurance business in Sioux City, was born November 10, 1863, in Hamburg, Germany, his parents being Heinrich and Anna (Giehs) Meyer, also natives of Hamburg. The father, a basket manufacturer, is still living in his native city at the age of eighty-two years, but the mother passed away in April, 1903, when seventy-six years of age. They were the parents of four children, all sons, and all became basketmakers in Germany. Carl Meyer, however, at the age of eighteen years crossed the Atlantic to America and made his way direct to Chicago. He had acquired his education in the Hamburg Seminary and had studied the art of acting, his mother having been an actress and from her he undoubtedly inherited much of his histrionic skill. In Germany he secured an engagement at the Wilhelm theater in 1880, and, establishing his home in Chicago in 1881, he became a member of a German stock company, at that time filling engagements in various theaters. He remained in Chicago as a representative of his art for nine years and in 1890 he came to Sioux City, where he obtained an engagement with the Sioux City Turn Yerein as instructor for members who took part in its amateur theatrical performances. He continued in that position until March, 1893. In the spring of 1895 he turned his attention to the insurance business, in which he has since been engaged and now has offices at No. 53-4 New Richardson block. He represents a number of the oldest and most reliable companies, including the following: The Germania Life, the Equitable Fire and Marine, the Lumbermen's Insurance Company, the Mechanic's, the Milwaukee Fire, the Spring Garden Insurance Company, and the National Union Insurance Company. He writes a large amount of business each year, his policies representing extensive sums.

On the loth of June, 1893, occurred the marriage of Mr. Meyer and Mrs. Phoebe (Hoefler) Schudell, the widow of William Schudell. She was born in Hessen, Germany, and came to the United States in 1875, making her way to a home of an uncle in Utica, New York. Mr. Meyer is a member of the Sons of Herman and is now grand secretary of the society, a position which he has filled since the organization of the order in 1896. He has also filled all of the chairs in the local society and he is a charter member of the Germania Society and also belongs to the Fraternal Order of Eagles. His political allegiance is given to the Democracy. He is of social, genial nature and in- Sioux Citv he has made many friends not onlv

As printed in Past and present of Sioux City and Woodbury County, Iowa (1904). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.