. George von Lengerke Meyer; his life and public services. L. Meyer, of the ThirdHussars, Kings German Legion, who fought, and waskilled, under Blucher at Waterloo. This strong German stock, traced by genealogistsfar beyond the eighteenth-century great-grandfather,had its counterpart in the pure New England andEnglish descent of George Meyers mother, GraceHelen Parker. Her father, William Parker, was aBoston lawyer, president of the Boylston Bank, anda director of the Boston and Worcester Railroad. Hewas at various times a member of the Boston CityGovernment, both in the Common Council and in
. George von Lengerke Meyer; his life and public services. L. Meyer, of the ThirdHussars, Kings German Legion, who fought, and waskilled, under Blucher at Waterloo. This strong German stock, traced by genealogistsfar beyond the eighteenth-century great-grandfather,had its counterpart in the pure New England andEnglish descent of George Meyers mother, GraceHelen Parker. Her father, William Parker, was aBoston lawyer, president of the Boylston Bank, anda director of the Boston and Worcester Railroad. Hewas at various times a member of the Boston CityGovernment, both in the Common Council and in theBoard of Aldermen. He was a member of that Boardwhen President Polk visited Boston in 1847, and tooka prominent part in the ceremony of his reception bythe city. At another time, when he was visiting Eng-Iland, Daniel Webster, Secretary of State, made himthe official bearer of dispatches to the British Government. His father, Samuel Parker, born in Ports-mouth, New Hampshire, in 1744, of a family established there since the previous century, embodied. as
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