Lang, H. O., ed.  "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description 
of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and 
Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal 
Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers."  Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and 
Job Printer, 1885.  p. 597.

JOSEPH MEEK

     Born in Washington County, Virginia, in 1810; left home at the age of
eighteen and went westward to Louisville and St. Louis, and joined Sublette's
hunting party, and set out in March, 1829, upon the plains, and for many years
thereafter led the life of a hunter and trapper.  In 1841 Meek settled in the
Tualatin Plains, in Washington County, and made that his home until his death on
the 20th of June, 1875.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.