Plumas County Biographies

Gurdon W. Meylert

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004 

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Secku and Abigail (Nichols) Meylert, the former a native of Germany and the 
latter of Connecticut, reared a family of nine children, the youngest of whom, 
the subject of our sketch, was born at Montrose, Susquehanna county, 
Pennsylvania, May 19, 1837. He was educated at Lewisburgh, Pennsylvania and at 
the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, New York. At the age of 
seventeen, he made a trip to China, and thence to California in 1855. He resided 
for a time in San Francisco, and then went into business in Sacramento, where he 
was at the time of the flood of 1861-62. From thence he came to Plumas county, 
where he has resided and engaged in active business pursuits ever since. For the 
past eight years he has been a contractor at the Plumas Eureka mine. He has 
always taken an interest in public affairs; was superintendent of the county 
schools for several years; was one of the projectors of the Sierra Iron and 
Quincy R. R. Co., in which he is a large stockholder. He is a member of Plumas 
Lodge No. 88, I. O. O. F., and Plumas Lodge No. 60, F. & A. M. Mr. Meylert is 
extensively engaged in dairying, for which purpose he keeps about 120 cows on 
his ranch in Mohawk valley. He has 1,200 acres of fine land for pasture and 
meadow, from which he cuts 250 tons of hay. He also raises great quantities of 
vegetables. February 27, 1864, he married Miss H. E. Madden, daughter of G. W. 
Madden of Taylorville, in this county. Mr. Meylert has recently been appointed 
by the president to take charge of the United States land office at Susanville. 
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 244