The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 98

JOHN M. MEEKHOF.

John M. Meekhof, a substantial and esteemed citizen of Yakima county, owns and
operates a fruit farm two miles west of the city of Yakima. He was born in
Holland on the 3d of April, 1860, a son of Mynerd and Bertha (Tallen) Meekhof
and it was in that country that the father passed away.

John M. Meekhof spent the first twenty years of his life in the land of his
nativity and then emigrated to the United States in 1880. Making his way into
the interior of the country, he located near Cadillac, Michigan, where he began
farming and was thus actively and successfully engaged for many years. In 1909
he removed to the northwest and on the 5th of December of that year took up his
abode on Whidbey Island, Washington. Subsequently he located in Everett, this
state, and later spent a short time at Duval, Washington, while for a brief
period he resided in Seattle. He next rented a large farm near Rainier,
Washington, the cultivation of which claimed his time and energies until
September, 1914, when he came to Yakima county and purchased a twenty-acre tract
of land near Eugene. Later he purchased eighty acres of land near Wiley City
where he was engaged in general agricultural pursuits for a year. During these
years he was for some time near Snohomish and also in Tolt, Washington, where he
had an hundred acre farm. In February, 1918, he disposed of the property and
bought a small fruit farm two miles west of Yakima, where he now owns an
attractive residence and is successfully carrying on his fruit-growing
interests.

In 1890 Mr. Meekhof was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Von der Heide, of
Michigan, by whom he has four children, as follows: Jacob, who follows farming
near Prosser; Bertha, at home; Mynerd, who is also yet under the parental roof
but operates a farm near Prosser in association with his brother, Jacob; and
Henrietta, at home.

In politics Mr. Meekhof is a stanch republican, exercising his right of
franchise in support of the men and measures of that party. He belongs to the
Dutch Reformed church of Moxee and guides his life by its teachings. Coming to
the new world in early manhood, he eagerly availed himself of the opportunities
for advancement offered on this side of the Atlantic and as the years have
passed has won well merited prosperity, at the same time gaining the friendship
and high regard of those with whom he has been brought in contact.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.