When John William Van Meter was born in 1872, in Illinois, United States, his father, Obediah Van Meter Sr, was 42 and his mother, Amanda Buitt, was 41. He married Martha Elen Stoops on 19 October 1904, in Louisville, Clay, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Township of Indian Prairie, Wayne, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Bent, Colorado, United States for about 10 years. He died on 20 December 1937, in Las Animas, Bent, Colorado, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Las Animas Cemetery, Las Animas, Bent, Colorado, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
On Aug 1, 1876, The United States Congress passed an act making the Territory of Colorado the 38th state.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Dutch: occupational name, literally ‘measurer’, denoting an official responsible for dispensing grain from a central warehouse, from an agent derivative of Middle Dutch meten ‘measure out’.
German: from French Lemaître ‘the master’ (see Lemaitre ).
German: from a short form of the personal name Demetrius (see Dimitris ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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