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United States Meiers migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Meiers Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Justine Meiers, aged 28, who landed in New York, NY in 1843 1
  • Jakob Meiers, who settled in America in 1852
  • Nicholas Meiers, who arrived in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1873 1
  • A. Maria Meiers, who arrived in Arkansas in 1880

Contemporary Notables of the name Meiers (post 1700) +

  • Shallan Meiers (b. 1981), American model and actress
  • Ruth Meiers (1925-1987), American politician, the first female Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota (1985-1987)
  • Ruth Meiers (1925-1987), American Democratic Party politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota, 1985-87 2


  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  2. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, January 14) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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