Joseph B. Meyer was born in Illinois. He married Rose ________, who was born in Prussia. In 1870 Rose was twenty-one years old. Joseph was the youngest of the five trustees being only twenty-one years old in 1870. Even though the youngest trustee, he was a merchant with personal property valued at $2500 and real estate valued at $1300 in 1870. Of the almost 400 deed transactions of 1870, he was listed as a grantee or grantor nine times. Apparently, he moved on as he was not found in the 1880 federal census.
SOURCES:
1870 U.S. Census, Nemaha Co., Richmond Twp., p50
Nemaha County, Register of Deeds, City Numerical Index 2